Jennifer Reid
Jennifer Reid | |
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| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Choquette |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | First Nations history |
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Jennifer Reid is a Canadian-American historian. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written on the history of Mi'kmaq religion and Louis Riel, including books such as Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), and Finding Kluskap (2013), and she is a professor at University of Maine at Farmington.
Biography
[edit]Jennifer Reid was born to Irene (née Michaud) and William David Cooper Reid,[1][2] the latter of whom was a leader within the Cape Breton Island construction industry and a friend of jazz musicians Maynard Ferguson and Oscar Peterson.[3] and raised in Arnprior, a suburb within the Ottawa–Gatineau region.[4] She obtained her BA in Theology (1990) at Cape Breton University, where she later worked as a religion lecturer (1993-1995).[5]
After spending a year as a graduate student in religion at Syracuse University (1990-1991), Reid obtained her MA (1992) and PhD (1994), both in religion, at the University of Ottawa;[5] her doctoral dissertation No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia was supervised by Robert Choquette.[1] In 1995, she moved to the University of Maine at Farmington as Assistant Professor of Religion; she was then promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Professor in 2006, remaining in that position until 2017.[5]
Reid has written on the history of First Nations religion, particularly the Mi'kmaq, as well as Louis Riel.[5] She is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Worse Than Beasts (2005), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance (2011), Finding Kluskap (2013), and Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (2014), as well as the editor of Religion, and Global Culture (2003).[5] She was also the guest editor of a 2003 special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Religion and the Imagination of Matter.[5] She has also written op-eds for the Ottawa Citizen: one in 2008 on Louis Riel's complex identity and folk hero legacy;[6] and another in 2009 criticizing Canada's rationale for not signing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples due to racial inequality concerning First Nations people.[7]
In 2015, Reid was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion.[8] As part of the Fellowship, it was announced that she would to travel around North America and Australia to do social engagement with activists and Indigenous lawyers concerning land rights.[9][10] She wrote the forward of Ellipsis..., a 2018 edited volume consisting of several writings of religious studies scholar Charles H. Long.[11]
In addition to Canadian citizenship, Reid holds American citizenship.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]- Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995)[12][13][14][15]
- (ed.) Religion, and Global Culture (2003)[16]
- Worse Than Beasts (2005)[17]
- Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008)[18][19][20][21]
- Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance (2011)[22]
- Finding Kluskap (2013)[23][24]
- Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (2014)[25]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Reid, Jennifer (1994). No man's land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th century Acadia (Thesis). University of Ottawa.
- ^ "Obituary of William Reid". Pilon Family Funeral Home. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ "Bill Reid" (PDF). CANS: 150 Years Of Industry. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ "Jennifer Reid interviewed for Louis Riel Day". University of Manitoba Press. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Reid, Jennifer. "Jennifer Reid - Curriculum Vitae". Academia.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- ^ "A perfectly incompatible country". The Ottawa Citizen. November 22, 2008. p. B7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Canada is increasingly alone on aboriginal rights". The Ottawa Citizen. May 16, 2009. pp. B7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Jennifer Reid". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
- ^ Schroeder, Kaitlin (April 22, 2015). "Professor wins fellowship to probe land rights cases". Portland Press Herald. pp. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "UMF professor named Guggenheim fellow". Sun-Journal. April 24, 2015. pp. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- ^ Grant, John Webster (1997). "Myth, Symbol and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867". Church History. 66 (2): 384–385. doi:10.2307/3170720. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3170720.
- ^ Griffiths, Naomi E. S. (1999). "Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867". The Catholic Historical Review. 85 (4): 674–675. ISSN 0008-8080. JSTOR 25025643.
- ^ Martijn, Charles A. (1997). "Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700–1867". The Canadian Historical Review. 78 (1): 165–167. ISSN 1710-1093.
- ^ Robb, Jim (September 8, 1996). "Trio of books offers insightful view of Canada's people and their history". The Ottawa Citizen. p. C11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long". Rowman & Littlefield. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ "Worse Than Beasts: An Anatomy of Melancholy and the Literature of Travel in 17th and 18th Century England". The Davies Group, Publishers. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ Braz, Albert (2009). "Review of Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State". The American Historical Review. 114 (3): 748–749. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.3.748. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 30223977.
- ^ Bruyneel, Kevin (2013). "Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State". Great Plains Quarterly. 33 (3): 190–191. ISSN 0275-7664. JSTOR 23534569.
- ^ LaDow, Beth (2010). "Review". Western Historical Quarterly. 41 (2): 250. doi:10.2307/westhistquar.41.2.0250. ISSN 0043-3810. JSTOR westhistquar.41.2.0250.
- ^ McManus, Sheila (2009). "Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State". Pacific Historical Review. 78 (4): 643–645. doi:10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.643. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.643.
- ^ "Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance: Mathias Carvalho's Louis Riel". The Davies Group, Publishers. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ Hornborg, Anne-Christine (2014). "Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth". Anthropos. 109 (2): 736–737. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2014-2-736. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 43861862.
- ^ MacDougall, Pauleena (2014). "Finding Kluskap: A Journey Into Mi'kmaw Myth". Western Folklore. 73 (4): 493–495. ISSN 0043-373X. JSTOR 24551138.
- ^ "Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization: A Sourcebook". Bloomsbury. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
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- American historians of religion
- 21st-century Canadian historians
- 21st-century American historians
- Canadian women historians
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- Indigenous studies in Canada
- Louis Riel
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- Canadian expatriate academics in the United States
- Cape Breton University alumni
- University of Ottawa alumni
- Academic staff of Cape Breton University
- University of Maine at Farmington faculty
- People from Arnprior, Ontario
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