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Ph.D. Candidate
Canadian Labour and Leftist History
Email: 8ca22@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298
2009-2010 Master of Arts in History, Queen's University
2005-2009 Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours in History and Political Science) at the University of New Brunswick
My research deals primarily with Canadian Labour/leftist History, specifically Pierre Trudeau's relationship with Canada's economic and social democratic left. I am also interested in Marxist thought and general Canadian economic/political history. Having completed my Master's cognate with Dr. Ian McKay, I will continue with him at Queen's for the PhD.
I have worked as a researcher for two summers on the SSHRC funded Labour History/Travail In New Brunswick Project at my undergraduate institutions.
This fall, I am a Teaching Assistant for History 295: The Holocaust
In the past I have been a Teaching Assistant for 253: History of Public Policy and History 267: Modern Middle East.
I am also the Chief Steward for PSAC local 901, the union representing Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows here at Queen's.
2009: SSHRC Master's Scholarship.
2009: Queen's University Tri-Council Award
2010-2013: SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship
2010: Queen's University Tri-Council Award
2010: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
Review of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000. By: Aivalis, Christo. Labour / Le Travail, Spring 2010, Vol. 65, p188-190, 3p
Review ofApproaches to Politics. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. By: Aivalis, Christo. Canadian Historical Review, Volume 91, Number 4, December 2010.
"Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Cité Libre, and the Canadian Labour-Left, 1950-1965" Presented at the McGill-Queen's Graduate Student conference, March 12-13, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec.
"The All Canadian Congress of Labour and The Canadian Unionist: The Case for a Marxist Nationalism, 1927-1932" Presented at the McGill-Queen's Graduate Student conference, March 11-12 2011 in Kingston Ontario.
"Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left, 1949-1959" Presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, May 30-June 1, 2011 in Fredericton, New Brunswick