Fionnuala Braun
Candidate, M.A. History
- B.A (Hons.) in History (University of Saskatchewan)
- Email Fionnuala Braun
Current Program (including year of entry): M.A. History (2024)
Supervisors:
Dr. Jennifer Evans and Dr. Susan Whitney
Academic Interests:
Cultural history, history of sex, sexuality and gender, European history, mapping decay, historical conservation through mapping, community historical societies, social determinants of health, mixed-methods approaches, research design and methodology, qualitative methods, determinants of public trust
Select Publications:
Braun, F. “Mapping Memories of an Invisible Town: Imagination, Empathy, and Temporality in a Community-Engaged StoryMap of Clementsport, NS.” Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage. Forthcoming, 2025.
Muhajarine, N., Neudorf, C, Braun, F., et al. “Just be honest with us:” A qualitative analysis of shifting institutional trust in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Journal of Public Health. In press, 2025.
Muhajarine, N., Neudorf, C., Mehdiyeva, K., Braun, F., et al. “Trust Dynamics and Equity in Public Health in Canada: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Project in the post-pandemic era.” JMIR Research Protocols. Preprint, 2025.
Muhajarine, N., Adeyinka, D., Bandara, T., Braun, F., et al. Public trust and COVID-19 vaccine confidence in Canada: Insights from 5607 adults in the Trust Dynamics and Equity in Public Health Survey, May 2024. PLoS ONE. Forthcoming, 2025.
Braun, F. “Mapping Memories of an Invisible Town: Imagination, Empathy, and Temporality in a Community-Engaged StoryMap of Clementsport, NS.” Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage. Forthcoming, 2025.
Braun, F. “The Final Days of the Homophile Prophet: Arcadie and Homosexual Populism on the Cusp of the Gay Liberation Movement.” Eurasiatique 13, no. 1. March 26, 2025.
Braun, F. “’Dance and Make Revels’: Cross-Dressing Prostitutes and Gendered Performance as a Method of Accessing Agency in Medieval London. University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal. June 20, 2024 (Best Paper Award Finalist).
Dyck, E., Clifford, J., Braun, F., et al. “Pandemic Politics: Developing Vaccines in Canada’s Anti-Vax Heartland.” Canadian Journal of Health History. Forthcoming, 2025.
Current Projects:
From the Prairies, From the Sea: Community Archivists as Insiders/Outsiders in Rural Nova Scotia. NS Heritage Grant Applicant 2025-
A Shooting in Clementsvale: Community Identity and Mythologization, and the Rum Running Trade in Rural Nova Scotia, 1930-1940. Alcohol and Drugs Historic Society, 2025-
iCare Pandemic Preparedness Project. iCare Study, Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, 2025-
Non-Traditional News as a Source of COVID-19 Vaccination Information in Canada: A Convergent Parallel Analysis. iCare Study Grant Recipient, Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, May-November 2025.
Select Conference Contributions:
Muhajarine, N, Neudorf, C., Mehdiyeva, K, Braun, F., et al. “How the Pandemic Reshaped Trust & Equity in Canada.” Symposium given at Public Health 2025. Winnipeg, MB, 2025.
Braun, F. “Entering the Hidden Village: Using GIS to Create a Living Memory Landscape in Clementsport, NS.” McGill-Queen’s History Conference. Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 2025.
Braun, Fionnuala. “‘We Shoot Drugs, and We Are Your Sisters:’ Lesbian Drug Users and the Politics of Exclusion in San Francisco’s Activist Queer Organizations, 1980-1992.” Paper presented at the Alcohol and Drugs Historical Society (ADHS) Biennial Conference (Buffalo, NY), June 2024.
Braun, Fionnuala. “The Final Days of the Homophile Prophet: Arcadie and Homosexual Populism on the Cusp of the Gay Liberation Movement.” Paper presented at the Michael Swann Honours Colloquium (Saskatoon, SK), January 2023.
Teaching Experience:
The Historian’s Craft (M. Hogue), Fall 2024.
The History of Sports (M. Bellamy), Winter 2025.
The History of the Internet (S. Graham), Fall 2025.
Description of Research:
My thesis focuses on the creation of socio-sexual identities in the French homophile organization Arcadie. As an organization supposedly focused on fostering friendships instead of sexual connections (but doubtless still a place where sexual encounters occurred), the tension between these two facets of identity was high. I will use a variety of visual, textual, and oral sources to reconstruct the strain between sexuality and respectability in Arcadie, as well as how these multiple spheres of existence may have influenced the sexual revolution that occurred in the 1980s. I will also create an online repository of the lived experiences of the members of Arcadie, serving as an online archive for other scholars working in the field of the history of French sexuality.