Professor Allan Greer and Professor Jane McGaughey receive 2022 Fellowships

The Canada-UK Foundation and the Eccles Centre for American Studies are delighted to announce that the recipients of their 2022 Fellowship are Professor Allan Greer and Professor Jane McGaughey.

Allan Greer is Emeritus Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America in the Department of History at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He has published extensively on the social history of early French Canada, the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38, state formation, the early modern Jesuits, religious change and colonization, colonial saints, property and the history and historiography of New France. His books have won a number of national and international awards. He is centrally involved in Montreal's French Atlantic History Group. Professor Greer will use the Fellowship to examine the reorganization of the Canadian fur trade between the British conquest (1760) and the formation of the Northwest Company (1779) as part of his upcoming “deep history” of Canada. The British Library’s maps and manuscript holdings are critical to this work.

Jane McGaughey is Associate Professor and Johnson Chair of Quebec and Canadian Studies in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. Her monographs have examined the relationship between public masculinities and warfare in Ulster before, during, and after the First World War and Irish male migration to Canada. Other publications include articles on Irish Covenanters and Ian Paisley, Canadian citizenship, and Irish veterans' bodies as sites of cultural construction. Professor McGaughey will use the British Library’s collections to investigate the treatment of immigrant mothers in pre-Confederation Canadian hospitals and asylums, particularly the ways in which medical and civic duties of care were framed by the cholera and typhus epidemics (1817-1875), migration, gender and the growing fields of obstetrics and gynecology.

Each Fellowship is worth £5000 and will enable up to two months' research at the British Library. The Fellows will contribute to the Library’s Americas blogsite and the Foundation’s Newsletter and will discuss their work at an appropriate Canada-UK Foundation and/or Eccles Centre seminar, conference or event.

For further information about the Fellowship please email us at admin@canadaukfoundation.org