{"id":178,"date":"2009-10-21T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:07:37","slug":"matthew-j-bellamy","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/matthew-j-bellamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew J. Bellamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew J. Bellamy is a professor of history at Carleton University. He teaches and writes about Canadian business, political, and cultural history, with research interests that range from Crown corporations to the brewing industry. His work has appeared in <em>The Walrus<\/em>, <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em>, <em>Literary Review of Canada<\/em>, <em>Canada\u2019s History Magazine<\/em>, <em>Legion Magazine<\/em>, the <em>Canadian Historical Review<\/em>, and international journals including <em>Business History<\/em>, <em>Enterprise and Society<\/em>, and the <em>Business History Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the author of <em>Profiting the Crown: Canada\u2019s Polymer Corporation, 1942\u20131990<\/em>, which won the National Business Book Award, and <em>Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt\u2019s<\/em>. His article, <em>\u201cBusiness Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the \u2018Responsible Drinker,\u2019\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;was published in <em>Enterprise and Society<\/em>&nbsp;and received both the 2024 Philip Scranton Best Article Prize from the Business History Conference and the 2023 Best Article Prize from the Canadian Business History Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His current research explores the intersections of sport, business, and culture in twentieth-century Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Professor Bellamy is accepting graduate students for Canadian history, and welcome inquiries about specific areas of supervision.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canadian Business History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultural History, especially the history of consumption<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Entrepreneurship and Innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sports History and Culture&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 BHC Philip Scranton Best Article Award Winner<br>2023 Canadian Business History Association, Best Article Award Winner<br>2021 Canadian Business History Association \/ l\u2019association canadienne pour l\u2019histoire des affaires, Best Book Prize Honourable Mention<br>2018 \u201cRaving Raven for Teaching Excellence\u201d, Carleton University<br>2016 \u201cFavorite Faculty Member\u201d, Department of Housing and Residence Life Services<br>2015 \u201cFavorite Faculty Member\u201d, Department of Housing and Residence Life Services<br>2015&nbsp;<em>Maclean\u2019s Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;named \u201cThe Canadian Brewing Industry, 1670-2015\u201d as one of Canada\u2019s \u201ccool courses.\u201d<br>2012&nbsp; Office of Quality Initiatives, Recognition for \u201cExcellence in Teaching\u201d<br>2010 Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Teaching Achievement Award<br>2009&nbsp;<em>TVO\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Big Ideas<\/em>, Best Lecturer Competition, Finalist<br>2007 Capital Educators\u2019 Award<br>2007 Carleton\u2019s \u201cAwesome Profs\u201d, C<em>harlatan<br><\/em>2006 National Business Book Award, Winner of the $20,000 first-place prize<br>2005 \u201cMost popular profs\u201d, Maclean\u2019s Magazine<br>2004 Public Affairs and Management Faculty, Teaching Excellence Award<br>2002 Carleton University Student\u2019s Association, Teaching Excellence Award<br>2001 Carleton University, Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLosing the \u201cLager War:\u201d International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975\u20131995,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Business History Review&nbsp;<\/em>98, no. 3 (Autumn 2024), pp. 727 \u2013 755.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBusiness Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the \u2018Responsible Drinker.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<em>Enterprise &amp; Society<\/em>&nbsp;24, no. 2 (2023): 522\u201345.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Rise of the Big Three: The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945-1962\u201d in Dan Malleck and Cheryl Warsh (eds.), Pleasure and Panic: New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2022), 270-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Making of Labatt \u2018Blue\u2019: The quest for a national lager brand, 1959\u20131971,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Business History,<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 62, no. 1 (January 2020), 123-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;(Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018To Ensure the Continued Life of the Industry:\u2019 The Public Relations Campaign of the Ontario Brewers during WWII,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Histoire sociale\/Social History<\/em>&nbsp;(November 2015): 403-423.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJohn Labatt blows in and out of the windy city: A case study in entrepreneurship and business failure, 1889-1896,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Canadian Historical Review<\/em>, (March 2014): 3-53<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was Canadian: The globalization of the Canadian brewing industry,\u201d in Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis (eds.)&nbsp;<em>Smart globalization: The Canadian business and economic history experience&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;(Toronto, University of Toronto Press, March 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018More money than since or before\u2019: How John Labatt\u2019s brewery prospered during the Canada temperance act period, 1878-1889\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Brewery History,&nbsp;<\/em>152 (Spring, 2013), 20-32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSteaming into the age of rail and pale ale: John Labatt and the transformation of Canadian brewing, 1855-1877,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Brewery History,<\/em>&nbsp;146 (Summer, 2012), 16-28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Rich by Nature, Poor by Policy\u2019? The premature birth and quick death of commercial brewing in Canada, 1667-1675\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Brewery History<\/em>, &nbsp;137 (Fall, 2010), 48-70<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Canadian Brewing Industry\u2019s Response to Prohibition, 1874-1920\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Brewery History<\/em>, 132 (Fall, 2009), 2-17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Profiting the Crown: Canada\u2019s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990&nbsp;<\/em>(Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(ed.)&nbsp;<em>Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada\u2019s Department of Finance, 1939-1947<\/em>&nbsp;by R.B. 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