Current Program (including year of entry): M.A. History (2024)
Supervisors:
Dr. John Walsh
Academic Interests:
New Political History; Political Thought; State Formation; Digital History Methodology; Upper Canada; Colonialism; Empire
Teaching Experience:
The Rise of the Roman Empire (J. Neel), Fall 2024
Description of Research:
My thesis focuses on the capacity for Upper Canada’s growing bureaucratic system to function independently from imperial direction, and on sentiments of “responsible government” within the colony. I aim to use a mixture of evolving digital methodologies as well as traditional historical methods to examine the writings of Sir John Beverley Robinson, a key figure in the political and legal cultures of Upper Canada for nearly fifty years (c.1810-c.1860).