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Carolyn Podruchny
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Office: Kaneff Tower, 718
Email: carolynp@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.carolynpodruchny.ca/
Carolyn Podruchny, PhD, is a Professor of History at York University. Her research focuses on the relationships forged between Indigenous peoples and French colonists in northern North America. Her first monograph, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade (2006), examines French Canadian voyageurs who worked in the North American fur trade based out of Montreal, and ranging to the Great Lakes, the Great Plains, northern woodlands, and the subarctic. She has co-edited three books: Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700 (2001), which examines colonial encounters in early Canada; Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories (2010), which illuminates theories and methodologies in ethnohistory in central North America, spanning the Canadian and U.S. borderlands; and Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility and History (2012), which traces Metis history in diverse corners of northwestern North America. She has several projects in the works. The first is writing a book about the meeting of stories in the fur trade and the work stories perform in shaping encounters and making places. Second, she is preparing a scholarly edition of the writings of the North West Company partner John McDonald of Garth (along with Germaine Warkentin) for the Champlain Society. Third, she is co-editing two collections about Indigeneity in the Philippines, one to the submitted to the University of Hawai’i Press and the other to the University of the Philippines Baguio Cordillera Studies Centre. Recent articles have explored Metis women’s history in 19th-century buffalo brigades. She has served as co-editor for the Journal of the Canadian History Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada and Histoire sociale / Social History (for which she is currently the director) and she co-edits a series with McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Degrees
Doctorate of Philosophy, University of TorontoMaster of Arts, University of Toronto
Cours de français, Université Laval
Bachelor of Arts Joint Honours, McGill University
Professional Leadership
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Society for Ethnohistory
Canadian Historical Association
Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française
French Colonial Historical Society
Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies
Champlain Society
Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Art and Culture (GRASAC)
2009-10 On Program Committee for Canadian Historical Association
2010 Annual Meeting at Concordia, Montreal, May 30-June 1, 2010.
2008-09 Principal Organizer mini-conference “Patterns of Genesis: Fur Trade and Metis History,” hosted by the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.
2008 Member of Program Committee, Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Rocky Mountain House, AB.
2006-07 Principal Organizer for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Thirty-ninth Algonquian Conference, York University, October 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for the conference Disease in Global Environmental History, History Department, York University, March 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for conference “Fur Trade and Metis Days,” co-sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 2006.
2005-06 Member of Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2006 Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, ON.
2003 Member of Coordinating Committee, Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Kenora, ON.
2001 Member of Coordinating Committee, Indian – French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
2000 Fund-raiser, Ninth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Vancouver, WA.
2000 Member of the Coordinating Committee, Colonial Saints: Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Americas, 1500-1800, Toronto, ON.
2007-08 Secretary, American Society for Ethnohistory
2004-07 Secretary-Treasurer, American Society for Ethnohistory
2006- Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
2005- Publications Committee, The Champlain Society
2004- Council Member, The Champlain Society
2001 Member of the President’s Advisory Council, The Newberry Library
1999-2001 Member of the Development Committee, Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies
1999 - 2001 Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
1999 – 2001 Member of the Advisory Board, Omushkegowak Oral History Project
Community Contributions
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Committees
2009-10 History Department Executive Committee, York University
2007-09 Senate Review Committee on Tenure and Promotion for the Faculty of Arts, York University
2007-08 Research Committee, History Department, York University
2006-08 Admissions Committee for Graduate Program in History, York University
2006-08 Curriculum Committee, History Department, York University
2005-07 Nominations Committee, History Department, York University
2005-06 Graduate Program Executive Committee, History Department, York University
2005-06 Undergraduate Studies Prize Committee, History Department, York University
2002-04 Faculty Senate, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Advisory Council, Program in American Studies, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Ethnohistory Coordinating Committee, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Canadian Studies Coordinating Committee, Western Michigan University
2002-04 Informational Technology Committee
2003-04 Research Committee, History Department, Western Michigan University
2001-03 Events Committee, History Department, Western Michigan University
2000 Experimental Ethics Committee, Department of History, University of Winnipeg
2000 Aboriginal People of Manitoba/Canada Working Group, University of Winnipeg
Searches
2005-06 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Medieval / Early Modern European history with a specialization in religion, History Department, York University
2001-02 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Mexican / American borderlands and Latino-American culture, cross-appointed in American Studies and Spanish Foreign Language, Western Michigan University
2001-02 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University
1996 Member, Search for Early Modern British tenure-track position, History Department, University of Toronto
Editorial Boards
2006- Histoire sociale / Social History
2006- Labour / Le travail
2003-09 Papers of the Algonquian Conference / Actes du Congrès des Algonquinistes
Scholarship and Prize Committees
2010 Committee member, Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
2005 Committee member, Ramsay Cook Award for Graduate Students, Graduate Program in History, York University
2001-04 Chair, Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, Prairie Region
2000-01 Committee member, Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, Prairie Region
2003 Manuscript reviewer, Great Lakes American Studies Association Publication Competition with the University of Ohio Press
2001 Chair, Frances C. Allen Fellowship for American Indian Women, The Newberry Library
2001 Member, Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History, The Newberry Library
2001 Member, Short-term Fellowship Committee, The Newberry Library
Research Interests
Indigenous Peoples
, History, The meeting of Europeans and Indigenous peoples in the North American fur trade. I focus on cultural, social, gender, labour, and environmental questions, Early Canadian history, Metis history, fur trade history,
colonialism
- York University Faculty of Arts Dean's Award for Outstanding Research 2004-2005 - 2004-2005
- Short-listed for the Margaret McWilliams Award for best book in Manitoba history published in 2007 - 2008 - 2008
- Short-listed for the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. MacDonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history published in 2006 - 2007 - 2007
- Canadian Historical Review Award for best article in the journal for 2002 - 2003 - 2003
- Canadian Association of Geographers’ Undergraduate Award for McGill University 1990 - 1990
- Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for the Manitoulin Island Summer Historical Institute (MISHI) Program - 2019
- Honorary University Professorship, York University - 2021
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - 2018
Books
Publication
Year
Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall, eds. Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, eds. Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010, in press. 330 pp.
2010
Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii + 387 pp.
2001
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
2019: Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains” Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749-1876, edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Scott See, Jerry Bannister, and Denis McKim, 236-63 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 27 pp.
2019
Brenda Macdougall, Carolyn Podruchny and Nicole St-Onge, “Introduction: Cultural Mobility and Contours of Difference.” In Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History, edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Nicole St-Onge and Carolyn Podruchny, “Scuttling Along a Spider’s Web: Mobility and Kinship in Metis Ethnogenesis.” In Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History, edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny. "Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: The Fur Trade, National Boundaries, and Historians.” In Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories, edited by Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, 275-302. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 27 pp.
2010
Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny. “'Complex subjectivities, multiple ways of knowing’: Introduction.” In Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, 1-21. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 21 pp.
2010
Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach and Roger Roulette. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.” In Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, 26-47. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 21 pp.
2010
Carolyn Podruchny. “Writing, Ritual, and Folklore: Imagining the Cultural Geography of Voyageurs.” In Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History, edited by Alan MacEachern and William Turkel, 55-74. Toronto: Thompson-Nelson, 2008. 19 pp.
2008
Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny. “Introduction: ‘Other Land Existing.’” In Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 13 pp.
2001
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
Sarah Carter, The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008) in Western Historical Quarterly (spring 2010): 87-8.
2008
New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts, edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007) forthcoming in Ethnohistory.
2007
Jean-Claude Dubé, The Chevalier de Montmagny (1601-1657): First Governor of New France, translated by Elizabeth Rapley (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005) in Choice Magazine (February 2006).
2006
Internet Resource: France in America / La France en Amérique, Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France URL : http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/ in Choice Magazine (January 2006).
2006
Louis Bird, Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown, Paul W. Depasquale, and Mark F. Ruml (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005); Louis Bird, The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego Stories, Lives and Dreams, edited by Susan Elaine Gray (Rupert’s Land Record Society Series 9, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007); and website: Omushkego Oral History Project, by Louis Bird and the University of Winnipeg, http://www.ourvoices.ca/ in The Canadian Historical Review 89: 3 (September 2008), 436-39.
2005
Brendan Frederick R. Edwards, Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005) in Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 43: 1 (Spring 2005), 68-9.
2005
Rhoda R. Gilman, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004) in Choice Magazine (January 2005).
2005
Nicole St.-Onge, Saint-Laurent, Manitoba: Evolving Métis Identities, 1850-1914 (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 2004) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 59: 3 (hiver 2006), 377-9.
2004
Timothy J. Kent, Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade, 2 vols. (Ossineke: Silver Fox Enterprises, 1997) in Ontario History (Spring 2004).
2004
Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57, edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press, 2003) in BC Studies 148 (Winter 2005/06): 129-30.
2003
Laton McCartney, Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail (New York: Free Press, 2003) in Choice Magazine (March 2004).
2003
“Mixing Disciplines in Fluid Environs: A Review of the Museum Exhibit ‘Shared Waters: Natives and French Newcomers in the Great Lakes.’” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 14 (Spring 2003).
2003
From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster, edited by Theodore Binnema, Gerhard Ens, and R. C. MacLeod (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 56: 2 (fall 2002).
2002
North of Athabasca: Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821, edited by Lloyd Keith, (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2001) in Canadian Historical Review 83:3 (September 2002), 437-8.
2002
Exhibition “Hudson’s Bay Company Gallery” at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, curated by Katherine Pettipas and designed by Gordon Filewych, in Muse, Canadian Museums Association/ Association des Musées Canadiens 18, no. 4 (2000), 16-19.
2000
Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, edited by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice in The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 8, (Spring 2000).
2000
The Fur Trade Revisited; Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and others in Ontario History LXXXVII: 1, (Spring 1995): 213-15.
1995
Monographs
Publication
Year
Carolyn Podruchny. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xx + 414 pp. Translated into French as: Les voyageurs et leur monde: Voyageurs et traiteurs de fourrures en Amérique du Nord. Translated by Anne-Hélène Kerbiriou. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009. xix + 405 pp.
2006
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “Bannock Diplomacy: How Metis Women Fought Battles and Made Peace in North Dakota, 1850s-1870s” Ethnohistory 69: 1 (January 2022), 29-52. 23 pp.
2022
2019: Carolyn Podruchny, Jesse Thistle, and Elizabeth Jameson, “Women on the Margins of Imperial Plots: Farming on Borrowed Land” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada 29: 1 (158-81). 23 pp. Link to article: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065722ar
2019
Carolyn Podruchny and Katie Magee Labelle. “Jean de Brébeuf and the Wendat Voices of Seventeenth-Century New France.” Part of a special issue on Relazioni/ Relations for the journal Renaissance & Reformation, edited by Tom Cohen and Germaine Warkentin. Forthcoming fall 2011.
2011
Carolyn Podruchny. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition.” Ethnohistory 51: 4 (fall 2004), 677-700. 23 pp.
2004
Carolyn Podruchny. “Un homme-libre se construit une identité: Voyage de Joseph Constant au Pas, de 1773 à 1853.” Cahiers franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest, Numéro spécial sur La question métissage : entre la polyvalence et l’ambivalence identitaires 14 :1 et 2 (2002), 33-59. 26 pp.
2002
Carolyn Podruchny. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments Among French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Canadian Historical Review 83: 2 (June 2002), 165-95. 30 pp.
2002
Carolyn Podruchny. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Bourgeois, Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Labour/ Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 43, (spring 1999), 43-70. 27 pp. Reprinted in Canadian History Reader, Volumes I and II, edited by Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2003); in Readings in Canadian History Pre-Confederation, Seventh Canadian Edition, edited by R. Douglas Francis and Donald B. Smith, (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007); and in Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History, edited by Bryan D. Palmer and Joan Sangster (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2008).
1999
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
April 2011. Seventh Annual Pierre Savard Conference, History Graduate Student Association of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. "Narrative Transformations and Miraculous Escapes: Telling Tales in the Fur Trade Along the Ottawa River."
2011
May 2011. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Sacramento, CA. “French-Descended Metis in Northwestern North America: Making Sense of Ethnogenesis.”
2011
November 2010. De Pierre-Esprit Radisson à Louis Riel: Voyageurs et Métis, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, MB. “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, and Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs.”
2010
June 2010. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-Sixth Congress, Paris, France. “French-Descended Metis in Northwestern North America: Making Sense of Ethnogenesis.”
2010
May 2010. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. Presented jointly with Kathryn Magee Labelle. “'Onontio, lend me your ear’: Wendat Voices in the Jesuit Relations.”
2010
May 2010. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. “From the Other Side of the Line: A French Catholic Priest Ministers to his Metis Flock at Pembina, 1840s-50s.”
2010
October 2009. Environments, Movements, Narratives in the Circumpolar North, BOREAS Conference. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. “The Lone Trickster? Exploring Individualism in Anishinaabe and Omushkego Oral Traditions in Early Canadian Indigenous History.”*
2009
October 2009. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. New Orleans, LA. “Becoming Metis in Fur Trade Folklore: The Case of Jean Cadieux.”
2009
September 2009. Out of the Cold: Scientific Ways of Knowing in Histories of the Circumpolar Artic, BOREAS – ESF Workshop. Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. “Dreaming of Wooden Boats, Booming Thunder, and Castaways: Narratives of Cree and European Encounters on Hudson Bay.”
2009
April 2009. The Early Modern “Relation”: Family Tree and Hermeneutics. Victoria College, University of Toronto, Ontario. “In Search of the Voice of the Other: North American Indigenous People Speaking Through European Relations.”
2009
December 2008. Reorienting Whiteness. Melbourne, Australia. “Can a White Man Kill a Bear? Constructing Race and Masculinity in Adversity Narratives in North American Fur Trade Folklore.”
2008
November 2008. The Canadian Studies Program, International & Area Studies University of California at Berkeley Symposium “Québec and the seventeenth-century Atlantic World: Quatercentennial perspectives.” Berkeley, CA. "Dreaming of Pale Skin, Hairy Faces and Sharp Knives: Anishinaabe Narratives of Discovering the French and English."
2008
November 2008. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Eugene, OR. “Mixing Stories and Making Identities: The Role of Narrative in the Encounters Between French and Anishinaabe in the Great Lakes Region in the 18th Century.”`
2008
May 2008. Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Rocky Mountain House, AB. “Mukwa Meets L’Ours: Exploring Bear Tales in Fur Trade Folklore.”
2008
February 2008. Seventh European Social Science History Association, Lisbon, Portugal. "The Problem of Migration and Metis Ethnogensis: Exploring the Identities of Joseph Constant, Charles Racette, and Peter Erasmus."
2008
May 2007. Fur Trade and Metis Days, jointly sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, Saskatoon, SK. “Mobile Communities and Mental Spaces in a River-Based World.”
2007
March 2007. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part II, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Storied Landscapes and Glass Curtains’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
2007
May 2007. Canadian Historical Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. Commentator for Panel “Aboriginal People Captured on Film and the Web.”
2007
September 2006. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part I, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
2006
May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert's Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Colliding Spirit Worlds: Belcourt's French-Anishinaabe Dictionary.”
2006
May 2006. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-Second Congress, Dakar, Senegal. “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
2006
May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Roundtable discussion: The Future of Fur Trade Studies and Conferences.*
2006
2005. Thirty-seventh Algonquian Conference, Ottawa, ON. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Bear Tales: Exploring Ojibwe and French-Canadian Oral Communication in the Fur Trade.”
2005
2005. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-first Congress, Wolfville, NS. “Regulating Resistance: A Roman Catholic Priest Incites the Métis and Acadians, 1840s-1860s.”
2005
2005. Canadian History Association Annual Meeting, London, ON. Commentator for Panel “Collaborative Research in Aboriginal History on the Pacific Coast.”
2005
2004. Cinquante-septième Congrés annuel, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique français, Chicoutimi, QC. "Fuites miraculeuses dans la tradition orale canadienne-française des voyageurs : la chanson, l'histoire et la complainte gravée dans le bois de Jean Cadieux."
2004
2004. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, MB. “Voyageurs too enjoy their carnival: French Canadian Servants, Dirty Tricks, and Bodily Pleasures.”
2004
2004. Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Kenora, ON. Presented jointly with Graham MacFarlane, “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
2004
2004. Feminism and the Making of Canada: Historical Reflections. Montreal, QC. “Bear Tales: Voyageurs and Masculinity in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
2004
2003. Thirty-fifth Algonquian Conference. London, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
2003
2003. Ninth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. New Orleans, LA. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2003
2002. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2002. “Linguistic Encounters: A Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary.”
2002
2002. Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference. Kingston, ON. “Peopling Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Unpublished Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary: Surveying Terms of Ethnic and Group Identity.”
2002
2002. Tenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Oxford University, England. Presented jointly with Dr. Bethel Saler, “’Peering Through the Glass Curtain.’ Comparing Recent Trends in Fur Trade Historiography in Canada and the United States.”
2002
2002. Thirty-second Popular Culture Association and Twenty-fourth American Culture Association Annual Conference. Toronto, ON. “Songlines of Adventure and Adversity: French Canadian Voyageurs Traveling in 18th- and 19th-Century Northwestern Borderlands.”
2002
2002. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC. Commentator for Panel “(Re)Appropriated Indian Voices.”
2002
2001. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Tuscon, AZ. “The Meaning of Cannibal Monsters.”
2001
2001. Indian - French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. Panel Speaker, Commented on the film “Kenata: Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic,” directed by René Sioui-Labelle (1998).
2001
2000. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. London, ON. “Lords of the Lakes: Freemen in 18th and 19th-Century Rupert’s Land.”.
2000
2000. Sixth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. Toronto, ON. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibalism and Mental Illness in Voyageur Oral Tradition, 1780-1820.”
2000
1999. Colloque en marge d’un millénaire vers un bilan missionaire. Organized by Western Canadian Publishers and the Société Historique de Saint Boniface. Winnipeg, MB. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821."
1999
1998. Eighth Rupert's Land Colloquium. Winnipeg and Norway House, MB. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part II: Cultural Hybridity, Trading Sex, Tender Ties and Fluid Monogamy."
1998
1998. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. Ottawa, ON. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part I: The Bourgeois Gaze and the North American Don Juan."
1998
1997. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. St. John's, NF. "Baptizing Novices: Forming a Voyageur Identity in the Montreal Fur Trade."
1997
1996. Twenty-Eighth Algonquian Conference. Toronto, ON. “Shifting Identities and Constructing Communities: Joseph Constant’s Journey to The Pas, 1773 to 1853.”
1996
1996. Seventh Rupert's Land Colloquium. Whitehorse, YK. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Voyageurs and Bourgeois in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821."
1996
1995. Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, NS. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827.”
1995
1994. Twenty-Sixth Algonquian Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "Diplomacy, Misunderstanding and Factionalism: Relations Between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society, 1820-1838."
1994
1992. Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. “Exploring Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land: Samuel Hearne, John Franklin and George Back in the Barrens.”
1992
1991. Fourth Annual Manitoba History Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "'Farming the Frontier': Agriculture in the Fur Trade, A Case Study of the Provisional Farm at Lower Fort Garry, 1857-70."
1991
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Carolyn Podruchny, “The Lone Trickster? Exploring Individualism in Anishinaabe and Omushkego Oral Traditions in Early Canadian Indigenous History” in Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives, edited by John P. Ziker and Florian Stammler (Boise State University, Department of Anthropology / University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, 2012).
2012
Carolyn Podruchny. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821." Western Oblate Studies 5 Études Oblates de l'Ouest 5 Actes du cinquième colloque sur l'histoire des Oblats dans l'Ouest et le Nord canadiens/ Proceedings of the fifth symposium on the history of the Oblates in Western and Northern Canada, edited by Raymond Huel and Gilles Lesage, 75-92. Winnipeg: Western Canadian Publishers, La Société historique de Saint Boniface, Presses universitaires de Saint Boniface and Centre d'études franco canadiennes de l'Ouest, 2000. 17 pp.
2000
Carolyn Podruchny. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827." In New Faces in the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, edited by William C. Wicken, Jo-Anne Fiske and Susan Sleeper-Smith, 31-52. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1998. 21 pp. Reprinted in Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World, edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, 593-620 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009); and Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies, edited by Jan Noel (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000).
1998
Carolyn Podruchny. "'I have embraced the White man's religion': Relations between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society in the Red River Valley, 1820-1838." In Papers of the 26th Algonquian Conference, edited by David H. Pentland, 350-78. Winnipeg: Algonquian Conference, 1996. 28 pp.
1996
Public Lectures
Publication
Year
2011. Canadian Studies Program, York University, “Canada Like You Have Never Heard it Before.” “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade.”
2011
2011. Living and Learning in Retirement, Glendon College, “Some Extraordinary Canadians.” “Louis Riel: Father of Confederation or False Traitor?”
2011
2010. Shannon Lecture Series in Canadian Social History, History Department, Carleton University, Ottawa. “Miraculous Escapes: Telling Stories in the North American Fur Trade.”
2010
2009. North American Studies Klubi Lectures, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. “Carried Away by a Bear: Exploring Masculinity and Bear Tales in North American Fur Trade Folklore.”
2009
2009. York Graduate History Students’ Association’s speaker series, The Historian’s Craft, “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cadieux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2009
2009. Black Creek Pioneer Village Speaker Series on Manly Men, “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade.”
2009
2008. History Thursdays: Research and Reflections by Faculty Doing Historical Research at York. Speaker on panel (with Alan Durston and Keith Weiser), “History and Language.”
2008
Speaker, “Workshop on Non-Tri-Council Humanities Funding Opportunities,” Faculty of Arts and Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University
2008
2007. York Alumni Christmas By Lamplight Event, Black Creek Pioneer Village, “Victorian Christmas and Women in British North America.”
2007
2007. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Metis Arts Festival, John A. McGinnis Heritage Lecture, “French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal –Based Fur Trade.”
2007
2007. Montreal History Group: Jeudis d’histoire, Montreal, QC. "Politics, Dictionaries and Sex Scandals: How to Write the Biography of a Missionary."
2007
2005. Friends of Grand Portage Annual Dinner, St. Paul, MN. “Telling Tales Along the Ottawa River: The Sad Story of French-Canadian Voyageur Jean Cadieux.”
2005
2005. Toronto Area Early Canada and Colonial North America Seminar Series, Toronto, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
2005
2004. Champlain – St. Lawrence Seminar in Early American Studies, State University of New York – Plattsburg, NY. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2004
2004. Smithsonian Institute Study Tours, "Discover Quebec." Lectured on selected topics on the history of New France, Lower Canada, and the province of Quebec for educational tour groups in Quebec.
2004
2004. Historica Teachers’ Institute, Université de Montréal. “Cultural Encounters in the Montreal Fur Trade: The Case of French Canadian Voyageurs.”
2004
2003. American Studies Speakers’ Series, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Werewolves and Windigos: Oral Tradition in the Fur Trade.”
2003
2003. History Department Research Colloquia, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cadieux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2003
2001. Fulbright Summer Institute, Rolling on the River: Waterways to Diversity in America, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Rivers and the Fur Trade.”
2001
2001. The Newberry Library Colloquium, Chicago, IL. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments and Social Geography Among French-Canadian Voyageurs Working in the Fur Trade, 1740s-1830s.”
2001
2001. Brown Bag Colloquium, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Windigos and Werewolves: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters Among Algonquians and French Canadians, 1720s – 1860s.”
2001
2001. The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History Visiting Committee (of donors), The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Algonquian Linguistics and Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Nineteenth-Century French – Ojibwe Dictionary: A Workshop on Publishing Language Materials.”*
2001
2000. Winnipeg Fort Whyte Nature Centre Bison Discussion Series, Winnipeg, MB. “Real Men Eat Pemmican: Voyageurs, Bison and Masculinity.”
2000
2000. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Classing Freemen: The Emergence of an Occupational Category in Eighteenth-Century Rupert’s Land.”
2000
2000. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Training Program for Volunteers, Winnipeg, MB. Conducted workshop “The Culture of French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
2000
2000. Primo Seminario Annuale di Storia Atlantica, course in Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, co-sponsored by the Centro di Ricerca in Studi Canadesi e Colombiani and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Genova, Italia. “The Fur Trade in North-Western North America from Amerindian Perspectives, 1660-1820.”
2000
2000. Women and History Association of Manitoba Workshop, Winnipeg, MB. “Doing It in a Canoe: Algonquian Women, Euro-American Men and Sexuality in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821.”
2000
1999. Women and History Association of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. “Pork Men, North Men, Ladies’ Men and Free Men: Masculinities and Voyageurs in 18th-Century Rupert’s Land.”
1999
1999. Sources and Methodologies in Comparative Perspective Discussion Series, History Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Four Ways to See Through the Bourgeois Gaze in Fur Trade Documents.” Presented as Part of a Panel “Native-European Relations.”
1999
1998. University of Toronto Early Modern European Study Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. "'Othering' the New World: Strategies for Understanding Early Modern History." Presented as part of a Panel "Concepts of ‘the Other’ in Early Modern Studies: Useful or Not?"
1998
1997. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Ritual, Play and Sociability Among Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
1997
1995. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. "Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827."
1995
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HIST2900 6.0 | A | Global Indigenous Histories | ONLN |
Carolyn Podruchny, PhD, is a Professor of History at York University. Her research focuses on the relationships forged between Indigenous peoples and French colonists in northern North America. Her first monograph, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade (2006), examines French Canadian voyageurs who worked in the North American fur trade based out of Montreal, and ranging to the Great Lakes, the Great Plains, northern woodlands, and the subarctic. She has co-edited three books: Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700 (2001), which examines colonial encounters in early Canada; Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories (2010), which illuminates theories and methodologies in ethnohistory in central North America, spanning the Canadian and U.S. borderlands; and Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility and History (2012), which traces Metis history in diverse corners of northwestern North America. She has several projects in the works. The first is writing a book about the meeting of stories in the fur trade and the work stories perform in shaping encounters and making places. Second, she is preparing a scholarly edition of the writings of the North West Company partner John McDonald of Garth (along with Germaine Warkentin) for the Champlain Society. Third, she is co-editing two collections about Indigeneity in the Philippines, one to the submitted to the University of Hawai’i Press and the other to the University of the Philippines Baguio Cordillera Studies Centre. Recent articles have explored Metis women’s history in 19th-century buffalo brigades. She has served as co-editor for the Journal of the Canadian History Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada and Histoire sociale / Social History (for which she is currently the director) and she co-edits a series with McGill-Queen's University Press.
Degrees
Doctorate of Philosophy, University of TorontoMaster of Arts, University of Toronto
Cours de français, Université Laval
Bachelor of Arts Joint Honours, McGill University
Professional Leadership
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Society for Ethnohistory
Canadian Historical Association
Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française
French Colonial Historical Society
Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies
Champlain Society
Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Art and Culture (GRASAC)
2009-10 On Program Committee for Canadian Historical Association
2010 Annual Meeting at Concordia, Montreal, May 30-June 1, 2010.
2008-09 Principal Organizer mini-conference “Patterns of Genesis: Fur Trade and Metis History,” hosted by the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.
2008 Member of Program Committee, Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Rocky Mountain House, AB.
2006-07 Principal Organizer for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Thirty-ninth Algonquian Conference, York University, October 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for the conference Disease in Global Environmental History, History Department, York University, March 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for conference “Fur Trade and Metis Days,” co-sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 2006.
2005-06 Member of Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2006 Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, ON.
2003 Member of Coordinating Committee, Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Kenora, ON.
2001 Member of Coordinating Committee, Indian – French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
2000 Fund-raiser, Ninth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Vancouver, WA.
2000 Member of the Coordinating Committee, Colonial Saints: Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Americas, 1500-1800, Toronto, ON.
2007-08 Secretary, American Society for Ethnohistory
2004-07 Secretary-Treasurer, American Society for Ethnohistory
2006- Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
2005- Publications Committee, The Champlain Society
2004- Council Member, The Champlain Society
2001 Member of the President’s Advisory Council, The Newberry Library
1999-2001 Member of the Development Committee, Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies
1999 - 2001 Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
1999 – 2001 Member of the Advisory Board, Omushkegowak Oral History Project
Community Contributions
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Committees
2009-10 History Department Executive Committee, York University
2007-09 Senate Review Committee on Tenure and Promotion for the Faculty of Arts, York University
2007-08 Research Committee, History Department, York University
2006-08 Admissions Committee for Graduate Program in History, York University
2006-08 Curriculum Committee, History Department, York University
2005-07 Nominations Committee, History Department, York University
2005-06 Graduate Program Executive Committee, History Department, York University
2005-06 Undergraduate Studies Prize Committee, History Department, York University
2002-04 Faculty Senate, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Advisory Council, Program in American Studies, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Ethnohistory Coordinating Committee, Western Michigan University
2001-04 Canadian Studies Coordinating Committee, Western Michigan University
2002-04 Informational Technology Committee
2003-04 Research Committee, History Department, Western Michigan University
2001-03 Events Committee, History Department, Western Michigan University
2000 Experimental Ethics Committee, Department of History, University of Winnipeg
2000 Aboriginal People of Manitoba/Canada Working Group, University of Winnipeg
Searches
2005-06 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Medieval / Early Modern European history with a specialization in religion, History Department, York University
2001-02 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Mexican / American borderlands and Latino-American culture, cross-appointed in American Studies and Spanish Foreign Language, Western Michigan University
2001-02 Member, Search for tenure-track assistant professor in Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University
1996 Member, Search for Early Modern British tenure-track position, History Department, University of Toronto
Editorial Boards
2006- Histoire sociale / Social History
2006- Labour / Le travail
2003-09 Papers of the Algonquian Conference / Actes du Congrès des Algonquinistes
Scholarship and Prize Committees
2010 Committee member, Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
2005 Committee member, Ramsay Cook Award for Graduate Students, Graduate Program in History, York University
2001-04 Chair, Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, Prairie Region
2000-01 Committee member, Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, Prairie Region
2003 Manuscript reviewer, Great Lakes American Studies Association Publication Competition with the University of Ohio Press
2001 Chair, Frances C. Allen Fellowship for American Indian Women, The Newberry Library
2001 Member, Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History, The Newberry Library
2001 Member, Short-term Fellowship Committee, The Newberry Library
Research Interests
Indigenous Peoples
, History, The meeting of Europeans and Indigenous peoples in the North American fur trade. I focus on cultural, social, gender, labour, and environmental questions, Early Canadian history, Metis history, fur trade history,
colonialism
Awards
- York University Faculty of Arts Dean's Award for Outstanding Research 2004-2005 - 2004-2005
- Short-listed for the Margaret McWilliams Award for best book in Manitoba history published in 2007 - 2008 - 2008
- Short-listed for the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. MacDonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history published in 2006 - 2007 - 2007
- Canadian Historical Review Award for best article in the journal for 2002 - 2003 - 2003
- Canadian Association of Geographers’ Undergraduate Award for McGill University 1990 - 1990
- Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for the Manitoulin Island Summer Historical Institute (MISHI) Program - 2019
- Honorary University Professorship, York University - 2021
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - 2018
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
2019: Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains” Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749-1876, edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Scott See, Jerry Bannister, and Denis McKim, 236-63 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 27 pp.
2019
Brenda Macdougall, Carolyn Podruchny and Nicole St-Onge, “Introduction: Cultural Mobility and Contours of Difference.” In Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History, edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Nicole St-Onge and Carolyn Podruchny, “Scuttling Along a Spider’s Web: Mobility and Kinship in Metis Ethnogenesis.” In Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History, edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Bethel Saler and Carolyn Podruchny. "Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: The Fur Trade, National Boundaries, and Historians.” In Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories, edited by Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, 275-302. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 27 pp.
2010
Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny. “'Complex subjectivities, multiple ways of knowing’: Introduction.” In Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, 1-21. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 21 pp.
2010
Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach and Roger Roulette. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.” In Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, 26-47. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. 21 pp.
2010
Carolyn Podruchny. “Writing, Ritual, and Folklore: Imagining the Cultural Geography of Voyageurs.” In Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History, edited by Alan MacEachern and William Turkel, 55-74. Toronto: Thompson-Nelson, 2008. 19 pp.
2008
Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny. “Introduction: ‘Other Land Existing.’” In Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 13 pp.
2001
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
Sarah Carter, The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008) in Western Historical Quarterly (spring 2010): 87-8.
2008
New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada’s Native Pasts, edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007) forthcoming in Ethnohistory.
2007
Jean-Claude Dubé, The Chevalier de Montmagny (1601-1657): First Governor of New France, translated by Elizabeth Rapley (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005) in Choice Magazine (February 2006).
2006
Internet Resource: France in America / La France en Amérique, Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France URL : http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/ in Choice Magazine (January 2006).
2006
Louis Bird, Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown, Paul W. Depasquale, and Mark F. Ruml (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005); Louis Bird, The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego Stories, Lives and Dreams, edited by Susan Elaine Gray (Rupert’s Land Record Society Series 9, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007); and website: Omushkego Oral History Project, by Louis Bird and the University of Winnipeg, http://www.ourvoices.ca/ in The Canadian Historical Review 89: 3 (September 2008), 436-39.
2005
Brendan Frederick R. Edwards, Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005) in Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 43: 1 (Spring 2005), 68-9.
2005
Rhoda R. Gilman, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004) in Choice Magazine (January 2005).
2005
Nicole St.-Onge, Saint-Laurent, Manitoba: Evolving Métis Identities, 1850-1914 (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 2004) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 59: 3 (hiver 2006), 377-9.
2004
Timothy J. Kent, Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade, 2 vols. (Ossineke: Silver Fox Enterprises, 1997) in Ontario History (Spring 2004).
2004
Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57, edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press, 2003) in BC Studies 148 (Winter 2005/06): 129-30.
2003
Laton McCartney, Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail (New York: Free Press, 2003) in Choice Magazine (March 2004).
2003
“Mixing Disciplines in Fluid Environs: A Review of the Museum Exhibit ‘Shared Waters: Natives and French Newcomers in the Great Lakes.’” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 14 (Spring 2003).
2003
From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster, edited by Theodore Binnema, Gerhard Ens, and R. C. MacLeod (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 56: 2 (fall 2002).
2002
North of Athabasca: Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821, edited by Lloyd Keith, (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2001) in Canadian Historical Review 83:3 (September 2002), 437-8.
2002
Exhibition “Hudson’s Bay Company Gallery” at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, curated by Katherine Pettipas and designed by Gordon Filewych, in Muse, Canadian Museums Association/ Association des Musées Canadiens 18, no. 4 (2000), 16-19.
2000
Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, edited by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice in The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 8, (Spring 2000).
2000
The Fur Trade Revisited; Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and others in Ontario History LXXXVII: 1, (Spring 1995): 213-15.
1995
Books
Publication
Year
Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda Macdougall, eds. Family, Mobility and Territoriality in Metis History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, fall October 2012. Forthcoming.
2012
Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers, eds. Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010, in press. 330 pp.
2010
Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii + 387 pp.
2001
Monographs
Publication
Year
Carolyn Podruchny. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xx + 414 pp. Translated into French as: Les voyageurs et leur monde: Voyageurs et traiteurs de fourrures en Amérique du Nord. Translated by Anne-Hélène Kerbiriou. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009. xix + 405 pp.
2006
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “Bannock Diplomacy: How Metis Women Fought Battles and Made Peace in North Dakota, 1850s-1870s” Ethnohistory 69: 1 (January 2022), 29-52. 23 pp.
2022
2019: Carolyn Podruchny, Jesse Thistle, and Elizabeth Jameson, “Women on the Margins of Imperial Plots: Farming on Borrowed Land” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada 29: 1 (158-81). 23 pp. Link to article: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065722ar
2019
Carolyn Podruchny and Katie Magee Labelle. “Jean de Brébeuf and the Wendat Voices of Seventeenth-Century New France.” Part of a special issue on Relazioni/ Relations for the journal Renaissance & Reformation, edited by Tom Cohen and Germaine Warkentin. Forthcoming fall 2011.
2011
Carolyn Podruchny. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition.” Ethnohistory 51: 4 (fall 2004), 677-700. 23 pp.
2004
Carolyn Podruchny. “Un homme-libre se construit une identité: Voyage de Joseph Constant au Pas, de 1773 à 1853.” Cahiers franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest, Numéro spécial sur La question métissage : entre la polyvalence et l’ambivalence identitaires 14 :1 et 2 (2002), 33-59. 26 pp.
2002
Carolyn Podruchny. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments Among French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Canadian Historical Review 83: 2 (June 2002), 165-95. 30 pp.
2002
Carolyn Podruchny. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Bourgeois, Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Labour/ Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 43, (spring 1999), 43-70. 27 pp. Reprinted in Canadian History Reader, Volumes I and II, edited by Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2003); in Readings in Canadian History Pre-Confederation, Seventh Canadian Edition, edited by R. Douglas Francis and Donald B. Smith, (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007); and in Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History, edited by Bryan D. Palmer and Joan Sangster (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2008).
1999
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
April 2011. Seventh Annual Pierre Savard Conference, History Graduate Student Association of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. "Narrative Transformations and Miraculous Escapes: Telling Tales in the Fur Trade Along the Ottawa River."
2011
May 2011. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Sacramento, CA. “French-Descended Metis in Northwestern North America: Making Sense of Ethnogenesis.”
2011
November 2010. De Pierre-Esprit Radisson à Louis Riel: Voyageurs et Métis, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, MB. “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, and Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs.”
2010
June 2010. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-Sixth Congress, Paris, France. “French-Descended Metis in Northwestern North America: Making Sense of Ethnogenesis.”
2010
May 2010. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. Presented jointly with Kathryn Magee Labelle. “'Onontio, lend me your ear’: Wendat Voices in the Jesuit Relations.”
2010
May 2010. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. “From the Other Side of the Line: A French Catholic Priest Ministers to his Metis Flock at Pembina, 1840s-50s.”
2010
October 2009. Environments, Movements, Narratives in the Circumpolar North, BOREAS Conference. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. “The Lone Trickster? Exploring Individualism in Anishinaabe and Omushkego Oral Traditions in Early Canadian Indigenous History.”*
2009
October 2009. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. New Orleans, LA. “Becoming Metis in Fur Trade Folklore: The Case of Jean Cadieux.”
2009
September 2009. Out of the Cold: Scientific Ways of Knowing in Histories of the Circumpolar Artic, BOREAS – ESF Workshop. Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. “Dreaming of Wooden Boats, Booming Thunder, and Castaways: Narratives of Cree and European Encounters on Hudson Bay.”
2009
April 2009. The Early Modern “Relation”: Family Tree and Hermeneutics. Victoria College, University of Toronto, Ontario. “In Search of the Voice of the Other: North American Indigenous People Speaking Through European Relations.”
2009
December 2008. Reorienting Whiteness. Melbourne, Australia. “Can a White Man Kill a Bear? Constructing Race and Masculinity in Adversity Narratives in North American Fur Trade Folklore.”
2008
November 2008. The Canadian Studies Program, International & Area Studies University of California at Berkeley Symposium “Québec and the seventeenth-century Atlantic World: Quatercentennial perspectives.” Berkeley, CA. "Dreaming of Pale Skin, Hairy Faces and Sharp Knives: Anishinaabe Narratives of Discovering the French and English."
2008
November 2008. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Eugene, OR. “Mixing Stories and Making Identities: The Role of Narrative in the Encounters Between French and Anishinaabe in the Great Lakes Region in the 18th Century.”`
2008
May 2008. Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Rocky Mountain House, AB. “Mukwa Meets L’Ours: Exploring Bear Tales in Fur Trade Folklore.”
2008
February 2008. Seventh European Social Science History Association, Lisbon, Portugal. "The Problem of Migration and Metis Ethnogensis: Exploring the Identities of Joseph Constant, Charles Racette, and Peter Erasmus."
2008
May 2007. Fur Trade and Metis Days, jointly sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, Saskatoon, SK. “Mobile Communities and Mental Spaces in a River-Based World.”
2007
March 2007. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part II, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Storied Landscapes and Glass Curtains’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
2007
May 2007. Canadian Historical Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. Commentator for Panel “Aboriginal People Captured on Film and the Web.”
2007
September 2006. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part I, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
2006
May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert's Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Colliding Spirit Worlds: Belcourt's French-Anishinaabe Dictionary.”
2006
May 2006. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-Second Congress, Dakar, Senegal. “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
2006
May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Roundtable discussion: The Future of Fur Trade Studies and Conferences.*
2006
2005. Thirty-seventh Algonquian Conference, Ottawa, ON. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Bear Tales: Exploring Ojibwe and French-Canadian Oral Communication in the Fur Trade.”
2005
2005. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-first Congress, Wolfville, NS. “Regulating Resistance: A Roman Catholic Priest Incites the Métis and Acadians, 1840s-1860s.”
2005
2005. Canadian History Association Annual Meeting, London, ON. Commentator for Panel “Collaborative Research in Aboriginal History on the Pacific Coast.”
2005
2004. Cinquante-septième Congrés annuel, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique français, Chicoutimi, QC. "Fuites miraculeuses dans la tradition orale canadienne-française des voyageurs : la chanson, l'histoire et la complainte gravée dans le bois de Jean Cadieux."
2004
2004. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, MB. “Voyageurs too enjoy their carnival: French Canadian Servants, Dirty Tricks, and Bodily Pleasures.”
2004
2004. Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Kenora, ON. Presented jointly with Graham MacFarlane, “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
2004
2004. Feminism and the Making of Canada: Historical Reflections. Montreal, QC. “Bear Tales: Voyageurs and Masculinity in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
2004
2003. Thirty-fifth Algonquian Conference. London, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
2003
2003. Ninth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. New Orleans, LA. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2003
2002. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2002. “Linguistic Encounters: A Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary.”
2002
2002. Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference. Kingston, ON. “Peopling Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Unpublished Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary: Surveying Terms of Ethnic and Group Identity.”
2002
2002. Tenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Oxford University, England. Presented jointly with Dr. Bethel Saler, “’Peering Through the Glass Curtain.’ Comparing Recent Trends in Fur Trade Historiography in Canada and the United States.”
2002
2002. Thirty-second Popular Culture Association and Twenty-fourth American Culture Association Annual Conference. Toronto, ON. “Songlines of Adventure and Adversity: French Canadian Voyageurs Traveling in 18th- and 19th-Century Northwestern Borderlands.”
2002
2002. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC. Commentator for Panel “(Re)Appropriated Indian Voices.”
2002
2001. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Tuscon, AZ. “The Meaning of Cannibal Monsters.”
2001
2001. Indian - French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. Panel Speaker, Commented on the film “Kenata: Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic,” directed by René Sioui-Labelle (1998).
2001
2000. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. London, ON. “Lords of the Lakes: Freemen in 18th and 19th-Century Rupert’s Land.”.
2000
2000. Sixth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. Toronto, ON. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibalism and Mental Illness in Voyageur Oral Tradition, 1780-1820.”
2000
1999. Colloque en marge d’un millénaire vers un bilan missionaire. Organized by Western Canadian Publishers and the Société Historique de Saint Boniface. Winnipeg, MB. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821."
1999
1998. Eighth Rupert's Land Colloquium. Winnipeg and Norway House, MB. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part II: Cultural Hybridity, Trading Sex, Tender Ties and Fluid Monogamy."
1998
1998. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. Ottawa, ON. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part I: The Bourgeois Gaze and the North American Don Juan."
1998
1997. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. St. John's, NF. "Baptizing Novices: Forming a Voyageur Identity in the Montreal Fur Trade."
1997
1996. Twenty-Eighth Algonquian Conference. Toronto, ON. “Shifting Identities and Constructing Communities: Joseph Constant’s Journey to The Pas, 1773 to 1853.”
1996
1996. Seventh Rupert's Land Colloquium. Whitehorse, YK. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Voyageurs and Bourgeois in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821."
1996
1995. Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, NS. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827.”
1995
1994. Twenty-Sixth Algonquian Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "Diplomacy, Misunderstanding and Factionalism: Relations Between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society, 1820-1838."
1994
1992. Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. “Exploring Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land: Samuel Hearne, John Franklin and George Back in the Barrens.”
1992
1991. Fourth Annual Manitoba History Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "'Farming the Frontier': Agriculture in the Fur Trade, A Case Study of the Provisional Farm at Lower Fort Garry, 1857-70."
1991
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Carolyn Podruchny, “The Lone Trickster? Exploring Individualism in Anishinaabe and Omushkego Oral Traditions in Early Canadian Indigenous History” in Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives, edited by John P. Ziker and Florian Stammler (Boise State University, Department of Anthropology / University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, 2012).
2012
Carolyn Podruchny. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821." Western Oblate Studies 5 Études Oblates de l'Ouest 5 Actes du cinquième colloque sur l'histoire des Oblats dans l'Ouest et le Nord canadiens/ Proceedings of the fifth symposium on the history of the Oblates in Western and Northern Canada, edited by Raymond Huel and Gilles Lesage, 75-92. Winnipeg: Western Canadian Publishers, La Société historique de Saint Boniface, Presses universitaires de Saint Boniface and Centre d'études franco canadiennes de l'Ouest, 2000. 17 pp.
2000
Carolyn Podruchny. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827." In New Faces in the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, edited by William C. Wicken, Jo-Anne Fiske and Susan Sleeper-Smith, 31-52. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1998. 21 pp. Reprinted in Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World, edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, 593-620 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009); and Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies, edited by Jan Noel (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000).
1998
Carolyn Podruchny. "'I have embraced the White man's religion': Relations between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society in the Red River Valley, 1820-1838." In Papers of the 26th Algonquian Conference, edited by David H. Pentland, 350-78. Winnipeg: Algonquian Conference, 1996. 28 pp.
1996
Public Lectures
Publication
Year
2011. Canadian Studies Program, York University, “Canada Like You Have Never Heard it Before.” “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade.”
2011
2011. Living and Learning in Retirement, Glendon College, “Some Extraordinary Canadians.” “Louis Riel: Father of Confederation or False Traitor?”
2011
2010. Shannon Lecture Series in Canadian Social History, History Department, Carleton University, Ottawa. “Miraculous Escapes: Telling Stories in the North American Fur Trade.”
2010
2009. North American Studies Klubi Lectures, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. “Carried Away by a Bear: Exploring Masculinity and Bear Tales in North American Fur Trade Folklore.”
2009
2009. York Graduate History Students’ Association’s speaker series, The Historian’s Craft, “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cadieux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2009
2009. Black Creek Pioneer Village Speaker Series on Manly Men, “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade.”
2009
2008. History Thursdays: Research and Reflections by Faculty Doing Historical Research at York. Speaker on panel (with Alan Durston and Keith Weiser), “History and Language.”
2008
Speaker, “Workshop on Non-Tri-Council Humanities Funding Opportunities,” Faculty of Arts and Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University
2008
2007. York Alumni Christmas By Lamplight Event, Black Creek Pioneer Village, “Victorian Christmas and Women in British North America.”
2007
2007. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Metis Arts Festival, John A. McGinnis Heritage Lecture, “French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal –Based Fur Trade.”
2007
2007. Montreal History Group: Jeudis d’histoire, Montreal, QC. "Politics, Dictionaries and Sex Scandals: How to Write the Biography of a Missionary."
2007
2005. Friends of Grand Portage Annual Dinner, St. Paul, MN. “Telling Tales Along the Ottawa River: The Sad Story of French-Canadian Voyageur Jean Cadieux.”
2005
2005. Toronto Area Early Canada and Colonial North America Seminar Series, Toronto, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
2005
2004. Champlain – St. Lawrence Seminar in Early American Studies, State University of New York – Plattsburg, NY. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2004
2004. Smithsonian Institute Study Tours, "Discover Quebec." Lectured on selected topics on the history of New France, Lower Canada, and the province of Quebec for educational tour groups in Quebec.
2004
2004. Historica Teachers’ Institute, Université de Montréal. “Cultural Encounters in the Montreal Fur Trade: The Case of French Canadian Voyageurs.”
2004
2003. American Studies Speakers’ Series, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Werewolves and Windigos: Oral Tradition in the Fur Trade.”
2003
2003. History Department Research Colloquia, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cadieux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
2003
2001. Fulbright Summer Institute, Rolling on the River: Waterways to Diversity in America, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Rivers and the Fur Trade.”
2001
2001. The Newberry Library Colloquium, Chicago, IL. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments and Social Geography Among French-Canadian Voyageurs Working in the Fur Trade, 1740s-1830s.”
2001
2001. Brown Bag Colloquium, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Windigos and Werewolves: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters Among Algonquians and French Canadians, 1720s – 1860s.”
2001
2001. The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History Visiting Committee (of donors), The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Algonquian Linguistics and Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Nineteenth-Century French – Ojibwe Dictionary: A Workshop on Publishing Language Materials.”*
2001
2000. Winnipeg Fort Whyte Nature Centre Bison Discussion Series, Winnipeg, MB. “Real Men Eat Pemmican: Voyageurs, Bison and Masculinity.”
2000
2000. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Classing Freemen: The Emergence of an Occupational Category in Eighteenth-Century Rupert’s Land.”
2000
2000. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Training Program for Volunteers, Winnipeg, MB. Conducted workshop “The Culture of French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
2000
2000. Primo Seminario Annuale di Storia Atlantica, course in Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, co-sponsored by the Centro di Ricerca in Studi Canadesi e Colombiani and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Genova, Italia. “The Fur Trade in North-Western North America from Amerindian Perspectives, 1660-1820.”
2000
2000. Women and History Association of Manitoba Workshop, Winnipeg, MB. “Doing It in a Canoe: Algonquian Women, Euro-American Men and Sexuality in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821.”
2000
1999. Women and History Association of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. “Pork Men, North Men, Ladies’ Men and Free Men: Masculinities and Voyageurs in 18th-Century Rupert’s Land.”
1999
1999. Sources and Methodologies in Comparative Perspective Discussion Series, History Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Four Ways to See Through the Bourgeois Gaze in Fur Trade Documents.” Presented as Part of a Panel “Native-European Relations.”
1999
1998. University of Toronto Early Modern European Study Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. "'Othering' the New World: Strategies for Understanding Early Modern History." Presented as part of a Panel "Concepts of ‘the Other’ in Early Modern Studies: Useful or Not?"
1998
1997. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Ritual, Play and Sociability Among Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
1997
1995. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. "Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827."
1995
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/HIST2900 6.0 | A | Global Indigenous Histories | ONLN |
