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Stephen Smith

M.A. Candidate
British North American Social and Political History, Urban History, and Gender

E-mail: Stephen.smith@queensu.ca
Fax: 613-533-6298

Education

B.A. (First Class Honours with Distinction) Mount Allison University, 2010

About

A native of Ottawa, I completed my B.A. at Mount A. in Sackville, New Brunswick (major in history with a minor in geography). I then began a Master's degree at Queen's. I am happy to be continuing my studies at Queen's. I completed my cognate essay under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey McNairn focusing on loyalty celebrations in nineteenth-century Kingston.

I'm especially interested in Canadian history, in particular colonial Canada under the British Regime. My specialization is in fraternalism and gender in nineteenth-century British North America. In my undergraduate thesis "'We Stood Our Ground Manfully'" I analyzed masculinity in the Patriot Hunters and Frères Chasseurs, two fraternal societies that arose in the aftermath of the Rebellions of 1837 and 1838. For my PhD I intend to continue this study by focusing on three secret societies that used violence for political ends - the Patriot Hunters, the Frères Chasseurs, and the Fenian Brotherhood.

Awards

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2010-2011.

Conferences

"'We Stood Our Ground Manfully": Masculinity and Gendered Imagery in the Ritual and Rhetoric of the Patriot Hunters and Frères Chasseurs," Seventh Annual Graduate History Symposium, January 4-5, 2011, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

"Peaks in the Polls: Reviewing Two Key Moments in the Life of the CCF and NDP," Third Annual Atlantic Universities Undergraduate History and Classics Conference (AUUHCC), January 23-25, 2009, University of King's College, Halifax, N.S

TA Ships

2010/2011

Fall: HIST 287; Early Modern England
Winter: HIST 20; Europe, 1572-1815

2011/2012

Winter: TBA

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