A. B. McKillop
Professor Emeritus
| Degrees: | B.A. (Manitoba), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen's) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 2835 |
| Email: | brian.mckillop@carleton.ca |
Research Interests
- Intellectual and cultural history, especially cultural production and expression
- Biography of journalist, historian, and media celebrity Pierre Berton
- Historiography, theory and method in history
Honours and Awards
2005 Davidson Dunton Research Lectureship, Carleton University
2002-03 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University
2002 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, Finalist
2001 Toronto Book Award, Winner
Invited Addresses
“Canadian Thought and the Language of Concern,” keynote address to conference The House that Isaac Built: The Architecture of Cultures and Identities in Canada, Huron College, University of Ontario, May 13, 2013
Select Publications
“Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self,” in Gerald Friesen and Doug Owram, eds., Thinkers and Dreamers: Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 33-52
Pierre Berton: A Biography (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2008; Totem (paperback) Edition, 2010
“Disciplinary Tribes and Territories: Alliances and Skirmishes between Anthropology and History,” in Historicizing Canadian Anthropology. Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell, eds. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), pp. 19-29.
“Public Intellectuals and Canadian Intellectual History: Communities of Concern,” Les Idées en movement: perspectives en histoire intellectuelle et culturelle du Canada (Québec: Les Presses de L’Université Laval, 2004), pp. 121-39.
“Idéalisme, éthique et société: R.M. MacIver et la sociologie à l’Université de Toronto,” Cahiers de recherche sociologique (la sociologie canadienne Anglophone), 39 (2003), pp. 205-25.
The Spinster and the Prophet (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2000; London: Aurum Press, 2001; New York: 4 Walls 8 Windows, 2002).
Works Recently Completed (Unpublished)
“Curiosity’s Hound: Adventures in History,” pp. 304
“Enlightenment’s Children: Reflections on Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century,” pp. 528
“The Fatigue of Reason: Reflections on Thought and Culture in the Twentieth Century,” pp. 518
Recent Graduate Supervisions
Ann Walton, “The Art of Growing Old: A Cultural History of Aging in Canada,” MA Thesis (2016 – in progress)
Joel Kropf, “Pursuing Human Techniques of Progressive Justice: The Ethical Assumptions of Early-to-Mid-Twentieth-Century English-Canadian Penal Reformers,” Ph.D. Dissertation (2014)
Madelaine Morrison, “Domestic Harmonies: Musical Activity in Southwestern Ontario, 1880-1920,” Ph.D. Dissertation (2013)
Paula Hastings, “Canadian Constructions of Britishness in Victorian Consumer Culture, 1890-1914,” MA (2004)
Janice Cavell (co-supervised), “Tracing the Connected Narrative: The Literature of British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1869 ,” Ph.D. (2003)