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Recent Articles and Reviews:
2001 'Of Remembering and Forgetting: From Ritual to Record and Beyond' Sport History Review, forthcoming 2001
2000 'Development, Deconstruction and Region: a Personal Memoir' Acadiensis, XXX, 1 (Autumn, 2000), 23-30
1999 'Two Outs; or Yogi Berra, Sport and Maritime Historiography', Acadiensis, XXIX, 1 (Autumn, 1999), 106-121
1999 'Scottish Influences in Nineteenth Century Nova Scotian Medicine: A Study of Professional, Class and Ethnic Identity,' in Marjorie Harper and Michael Vance, (eds.) Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory(Gorsebrook Research Institute and Fernwood Books, Halifax, 1999)
1998 'On Metcalfe, Marx and Materialism: Reflections on the Writing of Sport History in the Postmodern Age' Sport History Review 29 (1998) 96-102
1997 'Baseball and the Social Construction of Masculinity,' in Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld, eds. Gender in Canadian History Reprinted from Northern Sandlots
1997 'Modernization Theory and the Traditional Sporting Practices of Native People in Eastern Canada,' Journal of Comparative Physical Education and Sport, XIX, 2 (1997), 79-84
| Education: |
Ph.D. |
1976 |
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
Ohio |
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M.A. |
1967 |
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia |
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B.A. |
1965 |
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia |
Teaching Experience:
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| Saint Mary's University |
1985-Present |
Full Professor |
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1978-1985 |
Associate Professor |
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1973-1978 |
Assistant Professor |
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1970-1973 |
Lecturer |
Dalhousie University
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1993-Present |
Adjunct Professor |
| University of Hokkaido |
1994 (Autumn) |
Visiting Professor
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| University of Maine
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1984 (Summer) |
Visiting Professor |
| University of Cincinnati
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1968-70 |
Evening College |
| Dalhousie Univesity
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1969 (Summer) |
Lecturer |
| Wilmington College (Ohio)
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1968 (Summer) |
Lecturer |
Hillsdale Preparatory School
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1967-8 |
Teacher
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Awards, Honours and Prizes:
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1998
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President's Award for
Research Excellence, Saint Mary's University
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1997
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Certificate of Merit,
Association for Canadian Studies
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| 1996 |
Honourable Mention, Macdonald Prize,
Canadian Historical Association for Northern Sandlots (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press)
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| 1991 |
Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical
Research Society
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Nominee, Father William Stewart, SJ Medal
for Teaching, Saint Mary's University
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| 1970 |
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship
(declined)
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| 1968-70 |
Taft Teaching Fellowship, University of
Cincinnati
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| 1967-70 |
Teaching Assistantship, University of
Cincinnati
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| 1965-7 |
Graduate Scholarship, Dalhousie
University |
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Research Grants:
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| 2003-06 |
SSHRC INE Research Grant ($256,000)
co-investigator, "Performance Indicators for the New Economy" in
collaboration with Genuine Progress Index Atlantic. Ron Colman
Principal Investigagor
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| 1998-2000 |
SSHRCC Research Grant ($47,000) for study
of baseball and borderlands relationships between U.S., Canada and Mexico
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| 1991-3 |
SSHRCC Research Grant ($27,069) for
social history of baseball in Maritime Canada
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| 1986-8 |
SSHRCC Research Grant ($17,910) for study
of physical body and its relationship to ideas about the body politic
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SSHRCC Conference Grants 1980, 1983,
1984, 1985, 1990, 1994, and 2001
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| 1990 |
SSHRCC Matching Funds grant ($3,200)
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| 1985 |
Research Grant, Victoria General Hospital
($2,500)
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| 1984-5 |
SSHRCC Research Tools Award ($63,000)
with Tony Winson
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Saint Mary's University, Senate Research
Grants 1976, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993-6, 1998-2003 |
Books Authored:
Blood, Sweat, and Cheers. Sport and the Making of Modern
Canada (University of Toronto Press, January 2001)
Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (University
of Toronto Press, 1995) Honourable Mention, Macdonald Prize, Canadian
Historical Association
A Century of Care: A History of the Victoria General Hospital in
Halifax, 1887-1987 (Saint Mary's University and Victoria General
Hospital, Halifax, 1988)
Canada and the Wider World. Ongoing External Influences in
Canadian Development (Lighthouse Press, Halifax, 1982) |
Putting it on Ice: Volume One.
Hockey and Cultural Identities (Gorsebrook Research Institute,
Halifax, 2002)
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Ground Zero: Perspectives on
the 1917 Explosion in Halifax Harbour (Nimbus, Halifax, 1994)
co-edited with Alan Ruffman
Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of
Maritime Life and Labour (Acadiensis Press,
Fredericton, 1991) co-edited with Richard Twomey. Winner of Keith Matthews
Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society
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Editorial Work:
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| Co-editor |
Canadian Historical Review
(1989-93)Vols. LXVII, 3 to LXX, 3 |
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| Member |
Publications Board, North American
Society of Sport History (2001-present) |
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| Member |
Editorial Advisory Board,
Acadiensis (2000-present) |
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| Member |
Editorial Board, Sport History
Review (1996-present) |
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| General Editor |
Gorsebrook Publications Series,
Gorsebrook Research Institute, Halifax, N.S. (1994-present) |
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| Member |
Editorial Board, Canadian Bulletin
of the History of Medicine (1987-90) |
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| Member |
Editorial Advisory Board, Canadian
Historical Review (1986-9) |
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Books in Progress:
Baseball and Borderlands: A Comparative
Analysis of Baseball Along the Mexican and Canadian-American Frontiers
(presently in research stage, funded by SSHRCC three-year grant)
Putting it on Ice. Volume Two. Intenationalizing 'Canada's
Game' (Gorsebrook Research Institute, Halifax, 2003) forthcoming July
2003
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Forthcoming Articles:
"Baseball in Canada", a chapter in a book edited by William Kirwin and
George Gmelch on the globalization of baseball
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Articles and Review Articles
2003 |
"Baseball and Borders.
The Diffusion of Baseball into Mexican and Canadian American Borderlands,
1885-1911", Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture,
11, 2, (Spring 2003), pp. 16-26
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| 2001 |
"Of Remembering and
Forgetting. From Ritual to Record and Beyond," Sport History
Review (Spring, 2001), 32, 1
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"Baseball and the
Transformation of Twentieth Century Canadian Society," (CD-Rom
History of Canada, Chinook Publishing, forthcoming 2001)
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| 2000 |
"Development,
Deconstruction and Region: A Personal Memoir," Acadiensis,
XXX, 1 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 23-30
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| 1999 |
"Two Outs or: Yogi Berra
and Maritime Historiography, Acadiensis, XXIX, 1 (Autumn 1999), pp.
106-121
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"Baseball and the
Transformation of 20th Century Canadian Society," CD-Rom
History of Canada, Chinook Publishing, forthcoming
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| 1998 |
"On Metcalfe, Marx and
Materialism: Reflections on the Writing of Sport History in the Postmodern
Age," Sport History Review (1998), 29, 96-102
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| 1977 |
"Baseball and the Social
Construction of Masculinity," in Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld, eds., Gender
in Canadian History. Reprinted from Northern Sandlots
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"Modernization Theory
and the Traditional Sporting Practices of Native People in Eastern
Canada," Journal of Comparative Physical Education and Sport,
XIX, 2 (1997), 79-84
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| 1996 |
"The Man Who Taught the
Bambino," in Humber and St. James, eds., All I Ever Thought About
Was Baseball (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
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| 1995 |
"Diversity, National
Unity and Self-Awareness: The Cameron Report on Canadian Studies,"
guest editorial with Martha Macdonald, Journal of Canadian Studies
30, 4 (Winter, 1995-96), 3-4, 207-8
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"Connecting
Countryside," New Maritimes (May-June 1995) 22-6
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"Gendered Baselines, The
Maritime Tour of the Chicago Blackstockings," excerpted from Northern
Sandlots. The Telegraph Journal, New Brunswick Reader (Saint
John, N.B.) 29 July 1995. 5 pages
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"They Played Old Fashion
Ball," Dugout Magazine (Summer, 1995), 5 pages
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| 1994 |
"Baseball, Class and
Community," in Chad Gaffield, ed., Constructing Modern Canada (Copp
Clark, 1995). Reprinted from Social History/Histoire Sociale XXII,
44 (1989)
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"Baseball and Native
Peoples in Atlantic Canada and Maine," North American Society for
Sport History (NASSH), Proceedings 1994 (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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Three articles with Trudy
Sable on native baseball in Mi’kmaq/Malicite News (January-March
1994)
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| 1993 |
"Industry, Urbanization
and Social Reform, 1900-10," in Forbes and Muise, The Atlantic
Provinces in Confederation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1993), 155-191
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"Sport and Society after
Confederation," in J.M. Bumsted, ed., Interpreting Canada’s Past,
II 2nd edition (Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1993)
166-88. Reprinted from Social History/Histoire Sociale XXII, 44
(1989)
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| 1992 |
"Medical
Professionalization and the Social Transformation of the Maritimes Since
1850," Journal of Canadian Studies, 267, 1 (Spring, 1992) 5-22
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"Alexander Peter Reid
and the Ideological Origins of the Welfare State," in David Naylor,
ed., Canadian Health Care and the State (Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992), 16-37
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| 1989 |
"Baseball, Class and
Community in the 19th Century Maritimes," Social
History/Histoire Sociale, XXII, 44 (November, 1989)
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"Orthodox Medicine and
the Health Reform Movement in the Maritimes, 1850-1885," Acadiensis
(Spring, 1989), 55-72. Co-authored with Michael J. Smith
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| 1988 |
"Back to the Bedside:
Recent Writing on the History of Medicine in Canada," Acadiensis
(Spring, 1988) XVII, 2 185-93
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| 1987 |
"A Separatist
Temptation: Nova Scotia Premier W.S. Fielding Created a Stir in 1886 by
Pledging his Liberal Government to Secession from Canada," Horizon
Canada 9, 98 (March, 1987), 2348-52
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| 1986 |
"Economism, Ideology and
the Teaching of Maritime History," in Buckner, ed., Teaching
Maritime Studies (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1986), 96-114
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| 1986 |
"Asylums, Psychiatry and
the History of Madness," Queen’s Quarterly, 93 (Spring,
1986), 19-25
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| 1985 |
"The Changing Face of
Modern Medicine," Canadian Review of American Studies, 1, 3
(Fall, 1985), 339-343
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"W.S. Fielding and the
Repeal Elections of 1886 and 1887 in Nova Scotia," in Buckner and
Frank, eds., The Acadiensis Readers, 2 vols. (Fredericton,
Acadiensis Press, 1885), II, 96-114. Reprinted from Acadiensis,
VIII, 2 (Spring, 1978), 28-46
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| 1984 |
"The Halifax Medical
Elite and the Rise of Scientific Medicine," in Charles Roland, ed., Health,
Disease and Medicine. Perspectives on the History of Medicine
in Canada (Clark-Irwin, Hannah Institute of Medicine, Toronto, 1984),
105-22
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"Baseball and the
Decline of Community," New Maritimes (November, 1984), 3, 3
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| 1983 |
"Community-Oriented
University Education," Reshaping Development 1984 and Beyond (Vanier
Institute of the Family, 1983), pp. 62-3
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"Entrepreneurial
Motivation: Some Evidence to Contradict McClelland," Journal of
Small Business Canada, 1, 1 (1983). With John Chamard and Victor
Catano
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"Cooperation in Canadian
Studies at Atlantic Canadian Universities: An Assessment,"
Association for Canadian Studies, Newsletter, 5, 4 (Winter, 1983),
9-10
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| 1982 |
"Historical Constraints
on Entrepreneurial Activity in Nova Scotia," in Jean Pasquero, ed., Policy-Strategie
et Politiques, 3, 6 (1982), 59-65. With J. Chamard and V. Catano
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"Film and the History of
Atlantic Canada," Acadiensis, XI, 2 (Spring, 1982), 140-5
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| 1981 |
"Reform and the
Monopolistic Impulse: The Professionalization of Medicine in the
Maritimes," Acadiensis, XI, 1 (Fall, 1981), 3-22
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| 1979 |
"W.S. Fielding and the
Repeal Elections of 1886 and 1887," Acadiensis, VIII, 2
(Spring, 1979), 28-46
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| 1978 |
"The Maritimes and
Canadian Political Culture," Acadiensis, VIII, 1 (Autumn,
1978), 107-14
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| 1977 |
"Nova Scotia’s Protest
Tradition and the Search for a Meaningful Federalism," in David Jay
Bercuson, Canada and the Burden of Unity (MacMillan of Canada,
Toronto, 1977), 169-91
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| 1974 |
"Maritime
Merchant," a brief historical note for Canadian Newspapers on
Microfilm, Canadian Library Association (April, 1974) |
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Encyclopedia Articles:
"William S. Fielding," New Dictionary of National
Biography, Oxford University Press, London, 1998
"Alexander Peter Reid," Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB),
(University of Toronto Press, Toronto) XIV, 863-4; James R. DeWolf, XIII,
272-3; Daniel McNeil Parker, XIII, 812-3; Joseph Norman Bond, VI, 76-7;
William Grigor, III, 348-9; William Bruce Almon, VII, 16
"Anticonfederation and Secession," The New Canadian Encyclopedia
III; Saint Mary's University, III, 1628; William T. Pipes, III, 1419;
George Murray; III, 1178
"Aboriginal Games - Arctic Winter Games," "Baseball", "Boxing",
"Hockey", "Lionel Conacher", "Team Sports"
"W.S. Fielding", "Nova Scotia's Secessionist Movement (1880s)",
"Maurice 'Rocket' Richard", "Matchless Six - Fanny Bobby Rosenfeld",
"Gilles Villeneuve" Oxford Companion to Canadian History,
(forthcoming)
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Invited Public Lectures:
"Baseball, Borderlands and the Northeast," John
R. Betts, Distinguished Lecturer, North American Society of Sport History,
2001
"Two Outs: Writing About Sport and Maritime
History," W. Stewart MacNutt lectures, University of New Brunswick
(Fredericton and Saint John), October, 1998
"Modernization Theory and the Traditional
Sporting Practices of Native People in Eastern Canada," Plenary
Address, Scientific Symposium, World Festival of Traditional Sports and
Games, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 1996
"Baseball, Bush Leagues and Borderland:
Nationalism, Imperialism and Cultural Diffusion," University of
Windsor, November, 1996
"The Maritimes and the Challenge of Economic
Restructuring," guest lecture to Harvard University Center for
International Affairs, Fellows Program. Sponsored by the Council of
Maritime Premiers, Halifax, August 1996
"Baseball in the Hinterland of Canada and Japan," Hokkaido
University of Education, Hakodate, Japan, November, 1993
"The Forgotten Issue: 19th Century Canadian Medicine and
the Class Question," Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario,
February, 1993
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Conference Presentations:
Over the past two decades I have presented
over 50 conference papers, workshops and round-table discussions, and
chaired and commented on that many again. The most recent of these are:
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| May 2003 |
Commenting upon papers
relating to university student life before and after WWII at the Canadian
Historical Association Meetings, Halifax, N.S.
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| March 2002 |
"Baseball and Borderlands",
paper presented to the NINE conference, Tucson, Arizona
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| December 2001 |
"Baseball and Borders in
Comparative Perspective", paper presented to the American Historical
Association, San Francisco
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| May 2000 |
"Reflections on the Writing
of Atlantic Canadian History over Three Decades," Atlantic Canada Studies
Conference, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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"From Ritual to Record
and Beyond," paper presented to North American Society for Sport History
Conference, Banff, Alberta
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| April 2000 |
"Sport and the Northeastern
Borderlands," North by Northeast Conference, Canadian-American Centre,
University of Maine, Orono
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| February 2000 |
"Baseball and Popular Culture
in the turn-of-the Century American Southwest," American Popular Culture
Association, Southwestern branch, Albuquerque, N.M.
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| October 1999 |
Keynote Address to the
Atlantic Canada Workshop, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
"Postmodernism and Materialism: Avoiding the Cacophony of Subjectivism
in the Writing of Atlantic Canada History" |
Professional Activity:
Co-founder of Atlantic Canada Studies
Programme, and of the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Saint Mary’s
University. Three terms as Coordinator of Atlantic Canada Studies, and
various stints as Executive Director of the Gorsebrook Institute and Chair
of the Gorsebrook Board. Executive Director of the Gorsebrook September
1999 to present.
Founder and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Sport and Community
Health, Saint Mary's University, 2003. Served on numerous committees of SSHRCC, including
the Research Grants Adjudication Committee for History, and the Doctoral
Fellowships Committee of the
Canadian Historical Association, the Association for Canadian Studies, and
the North American Society for Sport History.
Served on the national executive of the Association for Canadian Studies,
and of the Council for Canadian Studies Programme Administrators.
Member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Historical
Association, 1999-2002. (Responsibility for copyright and census
issues). Former president
of the Atlantic Association of Historians.
Founder and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Sport and Community
Health, Saint Mary's University.
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Graduate Student Supervision:
Supervised over two dozen MA and Ph.D. theses, and served as external
examiner on a number of occasions at other universities.
In the past five years, three students under my
supervision have received the Governor-General’s gold medal in graduate
studies at Saint Mary’s University.
Community Service:
Over the years I have been involved in a number of volunteer
activities, including serving on the executive of the Friends of the
Public Gardens, on the Halifax Foundation Book of Remembrance Committee
(Halifax Explosion), as a resource person for Nova Scotia Sport Heritage
Center and Hall of Fame, as selection committee member of the Canadian
Baseball Hall of Fame, the Saint Mary's Sport Hall of Fame, and in
coaching youth socceer. Have been involved in organizing club
activities at Oakfield Golf and Country Club and the Grand Lake Yacht
Club. Along with my wife Sandi Galloway, operate Lakefront Hideaway
Bed and Breakfast.
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