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CURRICULUM VITAE
ROBERTO PERIN
PERSONAL:
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Citizenship: Canadian
Address: 440 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto M6H 3H9
ACADEMIC:
DEGREES
B.A. (Hons) Université de Montréal, 1968
M.A. Carleton University, 1970
Ph.D. University of Ottawa, 1975
“Mgr Ignace Bourget and the Dream of a Free Church in Quebec, 18621878” (Supervisor: Pierre Savard)
CURRENT POSITION
Professor, History Department, Glendon College, York University, 2004Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, 1981- present
Graduate Programme Director (Interim), School of Public and International
Affairs, Glendon College, York University, 2013
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
Graduate Programme Director, School of Public and International Affairs,
Glendon College, York University, 2008-10
Chair, History Department, Glendon College, York University, 2004-7
Associate Professor, Glendon College, York University, 2000-2004
Associate Professor, Atkinson College, York University, 1981-2000
Member (temporary), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto,
1990-96
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Director, Canadian Academic Centre in Italy, 1983-85
Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 1981
Assistant Professor, York University, 1977-81
Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, 1975-77
Visiting Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, 1973
HONOURS AND AWARDS
John W. Dafoe Foundation Book Prize, 1991
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2 books; 4 co-edited books; 1 booklet
16 chapters of books
14 scholarly articles
6 invited contributions
4 conference proceedings
59 papers read
BOOKS
Ignace de Montréal artisan d’une identité nationale, (Montréal : Les Éditions
du Boréal, 2008), 304pp.
Rome et le Canada: la bureaucratie vaticane et la question nationale 18701903 (Montréal: Les Éditions du Boréal, 1993), 345pp. (French version of
Rome in Canada)
Rome in Canada: The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990), 299 pp.
EDITED BOOKS
R. Perin and F. Sturino, Arrangiarsi: The Italian Immigration
Experience in Canada (Montréal: Guernica Editions, 1989), 251 p.
Daniel Drache and R. Perin, Negotiating With a Sovereign Québec (Toronto:
Lorimer, 1992), 296 p.
Terry Murphy and R. Perin, A Concise History of Christianity in Canada
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996), 456p.
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Franca Iacovetta, R. Perin, and Angelo Principe, eds., Enemies Within: Italian
and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1999), 429p.
BOOKLETS
The Immigrants' Church: The Third Force in Canadian Catholicism, 18801920 Canada's Ethnic Group Series Booklet #25 (Ottawa: Canadian Historical
Association, 1998), 37p.
CHAPTERS OF BOOKS
« Rome, les relations internationales et la question nationale avant la
Seconde Guerre mondiale » dans Martin Pâquet, Matteo Sanfilippo et JeanPhilippe Warren, dir., Le Saint-Siège, le Québec et l’Amérique Française
(Québec ; Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013), 185-196
“Il contesto diplomatico e imperiale nella Storia della Guerra
dell’Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti,” in Antonella Emina ed., Carlo Botta, la
ragione e la passione (Ivrea; Hever Edizioni, 2011), 181-188
“Churches and Immigrant Integration in Toronto, 1947-65,” in Michael
Gauvreau and Ollivier Hubert, eds., The Churches and Social Order in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Canada, Montreal & Kingston, McGillQueen’s University Press, 2006, 274-291
“Das englischsprachige Kanada”, Erwin Gatz, ed., Kirche und Katholizismus
seit 1945. Band IV: Die britischen Inseln und Nordamerika (PaderbornMünchen-Wien-Zürich; Ferdinand Schöningh, 2002), 71-88
“Ultramontanisme et modernité: l’exemple d’Alphonse Villeneuve,
1871-1891”, Yves Frenette, Martin Pâquet et Jean Lamarre, dir., Les
parcours de l’histoire. Hommage à Yves Roby (Québec; les Presses de
l’Université Laval, 2002), 305-325
“Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century
Quebec,” in Marguerite Van Die, ed., Religion and Public Life in Canada:
Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Toronto; University of Toronto
Press, 2001), 87-105
“Actor or Victim? Mario Duliani and His Internment Narrative,” in Iacovetta,
Perin, and Principe, eds., Enemies Within, 312-34
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Pierre Hurtubise et R.Perin, “Rome et l’Amérique du Nord française,” in
Pierre Hurtubise, Luca Codignola et Fernand Harvey, dir., L’Amérique du
Nord française dans les archives religieuses de Rome 1600-1922 (Québec;
Éditions de l’Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 1999), 7-27
"French-speaking Canada from 1840," in T. Murphy and R. Perin, eds., A
Concise History of Christianity in Canada, 190-260
"’Una Furia Più Che Francese’: The Quebec Church and Vatican Diplomacy in
the Age of Anglo-Canadian Protestant Domination," in Peter Kent and John
Pollard, eds., Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age (Westport, Conn. and
London: Praeger, 1994), 45-64
"Clerics and the Constitution: the Quebec Church and Minority Rights in
Canada," in T.J. Barron, O.D. Edwards, P.J. Storey, eds., Constitutions and
National Identity (Edinburgh: Quadriga, 1993), 162-80
"Answering the Québec Question: Two Centuries of Equivocation," in Drache
and Perin, Negotiating With a Sovereign Québec, 30-46
"La découverte de Jean Cabot ou les emplois de l'histoire," in Venezia e I
Caboto: Le Relazioni Italo-Canadesi (Venezia: Università di Venezia 1992),
103-118
"The Immigrant: Actor or Outcast," in Perin and Sturino, Arrangiarsi, 9-35
"Religion, Ethnicity and Identity: Placing the Immigrant Within the
Church," in W. Westfall et al., eds., Religion/Culture: Comparative
Canadian Studies, special issue of Canadian Issues, VII (1985), 212229
"Making Good Fascists and Good Canadians: Consular Propaganda and
the Italian Community in Montreal in the 1930's," in Gerry Gold, ed.,
Minorities and Mother Country Imagery (St. John's: Institute of Social
and Economic Research, 1984), 136-158 (English version of “Conflits
d’identité et d’allégeance: la propagande du consulat italien à Montréal
dans les années Trente”
DICTIONARY/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
RP et Matteo Sanfilippo, « Les conflits ecclésiastiques, 1860-1930» Atlas
historique du Québec : la francophonie nord-américaine (Québec ; Presses de
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l’Université Laval, 2012), 199-205
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, XV, (Québec; Presses de l’Université
Laval, 2005)
“Louis-Nazaire Bégin,” 78-84
Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Gerry Hallowell, ed., (Toronto:
Oxford University Press, 2004)
“Ignace Bourget,” 82
“Paul-Napoléon Bruchési,” 93
“Gallicanism,” 251
“Gavazzi Riots,” 254
“Albert Lacombe,” 345
“Manitoba Schools Question,” 384-5
“Alexandre-Antonin Taché,” 606
“Ultramontanism,” 628
Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Vierte Auflage. Band 6, (Tubingen;
Mohr Siebeck, 2003) ; (English translation) Religion Past and Present:
Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion, Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning,
Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel eds., (Leiden; Brill, 2006)
“Louis-Joseph Papineau”
“Joseph-Octave Plessis”
Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Vierte Auflage. Band 2, (Tubingen;
Mohr Siebeck, 2000)
“Catholic Action (Canada)”
“Joseph Charbonneau”
“Charles de Forbin-Janson”
Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1999),
“Themes in Immigration History,” 1258-67
and Harold Troper, “Immigration Policy,” 700-713,
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XIV, (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1998)
"Adélard Langevin," 597-600
Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, ,” (Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Verlag Herder,
1996),
“Kanada: Kirchengeschichte,” 1165-6,
“Kanada: Allgemeine Statistik,” 1175
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XIII, (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1994)
with Gail Comeau-Vasilopoulos, "Thomas Duhamel," 296-301
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, XI, (Québec: Presses de
l'Université Laval, 1981)
“Joseph Alexandre Baile,” 45-7
"Joseph Desautels," 274-6
ARTICLES REPUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGIES
“Troppo Ardenti Sacerdoti: the Conroy Mission Revisited,” in Michael
Behiels, Quebec Since 1800: Selected Readings, (Toronto; Irwin, 2002),
154-72, reprinted from my article published in The Canadian
Historical Review
"Writing About Ethnicity," in John Schultz, ed., Writing About Canada: A
Handbook For Modern Canadian History (Toronto: Prentice-Hall Canada,
1990), 201-230. (expanded version of "Clio as an Ethnic" published in the
Canadian Historical Review)
"Clio as an Ethnic," in Carl Berger, ed., Contemporary Approaches to
Canadian History (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1987), 201-221
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
“L’Église et l’édification d’une culture publique au Québec,” Études
d’histoire religieuse, 67, (2001), 261-270
"National histories and ethnic history in Canada," Cahiers de recherche
sociologique, 20 (1993), 113-128
"Rome as a Metropolis of Canada," Annali Accademici Canadesi. vol. 2.
Biblioteca, (Ottawa: 1991), 21-31.
"Quelques synthèses récentes sur l'évolution du Canada," International
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue internationale d'études canadiennes, 1-2,
(Spring-Autumn 1990), 161-72
"Clerics and the Constitution: the Quebec Church and Minority Rights,"
Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies, 56, (1990), 31-47
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"I rapporti tra Italia e Canada nell'Ottocento," Il Veltro (Rome: Fall, 1985), 7388
"Clio as an Ethnic: The Third Force in Canadian Historiography,"
Canadian Historical Review, LXIV, 4(Dec. 1983), 441-476, same as
article anthologized in Berger
"La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure: la représentation du SaintSiège au Canada, 1877-1917," Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église
catholique, Sessions d'Études, 50, (1983), 99-117
"Conflits d'identité et d'allégeance: la propagande du consulat italien à
Montréal dans les années trente," Questions de Culture, I, 2(1982), 81102. French version of chapter in Gold book
"St-Bourget, évêque et martyr," Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue
d'études canadiennes, 15, 4(hiver 1980), 43-55
"Troppo Ardenti Sacerdoti: The Conroy Mission Revisited," Canadian
Historical Review LXI, 3(Sept. 1980), 283-304
"Clercs et politiques au Québec, 1865-76," Revue de l'Université
d'Ottawa, 50, 2(avril-juin 1980), 160-190
"La questione nazionale in Canada," in Piero Bairati, ed., Storia del
Nord America. IV. Il Mondo Contemporaneo ed., Nicola Tranfaglia,
(Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1979), 368-384
"Nationalism and the Church in French Canada," Bulletin of Canadian
Studies, I, 1(May 1977), 27-38
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/REPORTS
“Toronto Churches and Immigrant Integration in the Postwar Period,” in
Jean-Michel Lacroix et Paul-André Linteau, dir., Vers la construction d’une
citoyenneté canadienne (Paris; Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006), 101-114.
“Mémoire faussée? Représentation chez les Italo-Canadiens de la politique
d’internement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale,” in Serge Jaumain et
Éric Renacle, dir., Mémoire de guerre et construction de paix (Bruxelles; P.I.E.-
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Peter Lang, 2006), 81-92.
“Caboto as a Contested Ethnic Icon,” in Iona Bulgin, ed., Cabot and His
World. Symposium June 1997: Papers and Presentations (St. John’s;
Newfoundland Historical Society, 1999), 199-208.
"National Histories and Ethnic History," in Wsevolod Isajiw, New Challenges
to Ethnic Studies: the Response of the University Chairs. A Conference Report,
Presented to Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada, (Ottawa: 1992), 35-54
BOOK REVIEWS
. Social History/Histoire sociale 1978, 80, 87
. Canadian Historical Review 1980, 81, 82, 84, 89, 96, 98
. Catholic Historical Review 1983, 2002
. Ontario History 1986
. Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 1983
. Société canadienne d’histoire de l’Église catholique 2002
. Labour/Le travail 1983
. Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique française 1985, 95
. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 1988
. History of Education Quarterly 1987
. Journal of American History 1989
. Canadian Theatre Review 2000
. Mens: Revue d’histoire intellectuelle de l’Amérique française 2003
.Italian American Review 2011
.Urban History 2010
UNREFEREED ARTICLES
"Il voto degli ‘Italiani all'estero' e il
dell'Immigrazione italiana, 4 giugno 2007
Canada,"
Archivio
Storico
“Pierre Savard: mon mentor,” J.P. Wallot, Pierre Lanthier, Hubert Watelet, dir.,
Constructions identitaires et pratiques sociales,” (Ottawa, Les presses de
l’université d’Ottawa, 2002), 33-34
“Caboto as a Contested Ethnic Icon,” in Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, ed.,
Attraversare gli Oceani: Da Giovanni Caboto al Canada multiculturale
(Venezia; Marsilio Editori, 1999), 87-99.
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“Perin Peregrinations,” in Konrad Eisebichler, ed., An Italian Region in
Canada: The Case of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Toronto; Multicultural History
Society of Ontario, 1998), 63-84.
“The Many Faces of the French Fact,” The Beaver (Oct-Nov 1998), 2-3.
"Gläubig, aber Kirchenabstinent," Das Parlament 3/10 Januar 1997, 15.
"Quebec: A Nation At the Crossroads", Scienza e Politica 11 (1994) 63-80.
"The Two Nations and the Many: Changes in Canadian Multiculturalism,"
Materiali I Centro di Studi "A. de Tocqueville", Dipartmimento di Politica,
Istituzioni, Storia, Università di Bologna, 27-39.
"Territorialité et présence française en Amérique," University of New
Brunswick Law Journal, 41, (1992), 155-8.
"Is Quebec Racist?" The Toronto Star, (Dec. 17, 1991)
with Daniel Drache, "A Culture Facing Extinction," Globe and Mail, (10
February 1989)
"Il convegno internazionale, `L'esperienza degli immigranti italiani in
Canada' (Roma, 9-13 maggio 1984)," Studi emigrazione/Etudes migratoires,
77, (marzo 1985), 141-4.
with Louise Davies, "From Hogtown to Metropolis: French As a Second
Language in Toronto," This Magazine, (May 1982), 35-6
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
“Bilingualism versus Multilingualism: Official Language Policy and the Royal
Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism,” Polish Association of
Canadian Studies, Poznan, April 2013
« L’Église catholique, terrain d’affrontement entre Irlandais et Canadiens
français, 1850-1920, » keynote address, conference Origines et
appartenances : l’identité irlandaise du Québec, ACFAS, Sherbrooke, May
2011
“Rome, les relations internationales et la question nationale avant la Seconde
Guerre mondiale,” keynote address, international conference Les archives du
Vatican : pistes et défis pour la recherche sur le Québec et l’Amérique
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française, Rome, May 2011
“Ethnic Identity and Multiculturalism,” international conference, The
Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor, Università di Udine, April 2011
“Pluralismo religioso e laicità in Canada: una prospettiva storica,” at a
conference on Pluralismo religioso e laicità in Europa e Nord America,
University of Genoa, April 2011
“Borders in a Multicultural State: the case of Canada,” IP International
Seminar, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, March 2011
“Il contesto diplomatico e imperiale nella Guerra dell’Indipendenza degli
Stati Uniti d’America di Carlo Botta,” international conference marking the
two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Carlo Botta’s Storia
dell’Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America, Turin, 2010
“ Friulian Migrants and Immigrants : Ellis Island and the British Columbia
Labouring Frontier,” Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Vancouver, 2008
“Religion et identités juives à Toronto 1892-1922, ” Les Entretiens Jacques
Cartier, Lyon, 2007
With Gabriele Scardellato, “Mapping Peripheries: Friulian Migration and
Immigration to Labouring Frontiers in North America,” Canadian Society for
Italian Studies, Trieste, 2007
“Identité ethnique et espace public dans la Petite Italie de Montréal pendant
l’entre-deux-guerres,” Association espagnole d’études canadiennes, Madrid,
2006
“Les églises torontoises et l’intégration de immigrants (1945-65),”
Multiculturalisme, Religion et Éducation au Canada, Sorbonne, 2004.
"The Politics of Canadian Multiculturalism: Wartime Internment, Civil
Liberties, and Internal Security after 9-11," University of Amsterdam, 2004
“L’histoire du Canada et du Québec: la perspective d’un outsider” Séminaire
sur les enjeux narratifs et interprétatifs de l’histoire, Université Laval, 2004
“Mémoire faussée? Représentation chez les Italo-Canadiens de la politique
d’internement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale” Mémoire de Guerre et
Construction de la Paix, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2003
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“Places of Worship in Toronto as Vehicles of Postwar Immigrant Integration”
L’évolution du rôle social des Églises au Canada, 1800-1960, Université de
Montréal, 2002; Canadian Historical Association, 2003
“La conversion de l’Amérique : messianisme et rivalités ethniques au sein de
l’Église
canadienne,”
L’Association
canadienne
des
études
irlandaises, Université Laval, 2001
“An Illusive Reality: English-Canadian Catholicism After the Second World
War,” Recasting Canadian History in the Wider World: Towards New
Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century, Sestri Levante, Italy, 2001
“L’Église et l’édification d’une culture publique au Québec,” Société
canadienne d’histoire de l’Église catholique, Université Laval, 2000
“Diversité religieuse et ethnique à Toronto, 1900-2000,” at a conference on
Constructions identitaires et pratiques sociales in honour of Pierre Savard,
University of Ottawa, 2000
“L’Asimetria nei rapporti tra Chiesa e Stato in Canada,” at a seminar on
Religious Freedom organized by professors of ecclesiastical law, University
of Granada, Spain, 1999.
“Immigration Policy and Multiculturalism,” University of Granada, Spain,
1999.
“Fascist or Anti-Fascist? Actor or Victim? A Historian Re-reads Mario
Duliani’s Internment Narrative,” Canadian Historical Association, Université
de Sherbrooke/Bishop’s University, 1999.
“Les lieux de culte comme expressions des changements religieux et
ethniques en milieu urbain: un projet photographique,” at a conference on
Stratégies socioculturelles des migrations: nouvelles approches, nouveaux
objets, nouvelles sources, Université de Moncton, 1999
“Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century
Quebec,” at a conference on Religion and Public Life, Queen’s University,
Kingston, 1999
"L'Église catholique et l'élaboration d'une culture publique au Canada
français et en Acadie au dix-neuvième siècle," keynote address, Atlantic
Association of Historians, Moncton, 1998
"Chiesa
cattolica
e
modelli
ideologici
europei
nel
Quebec
post-
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rivoluzionario," University of Genoa, 1998
"What's in a Name?: Giovanni Caboto and the Sense of Belonging," at a
symposium on Cabot and His World, St. John's and Bonavista, 1997
"Reluctant Sovereignists: Historical Factors Behind the No Vote Among
Quebec's `Ethnics'" Indian Association of Canadian Studies, Trivandrum,
1996
"La Ville Sans Femmes: An Exercise in Amnesia and a Passport to
Respectability" Conference on the Internment of Italo-Camadians During the
Second World War, Toronto, 1995
"The Catholic Church and the Care of Immigrants in Canada in the First
Quarter of the Twentieth Century" International Conference on The Age of
Pope Benedict XV, Milan, 1995
"Beyond a Utilitarian Concept of Immigrant Identity" Israeli Association of
Canadian Studies, Jerusalem, 1994
"The Two Nations and the Many: Changing Concepts in Canadian
Multiculturalism" Indian Association of Canadian Studies, Goa, India, 1994
with William Westfall, "Protestant and Catholic: Religion, Culture and the
Creation of National Identity" American Association of Canadian Studies,
New Orleans, 1993
"Multiculturalism, Federalism, and National Identity" at a seminar on
Multiculturalism and Federalism in a Comparative Perspective organized
jointly by the University of Bologna and Dickinson College (Pennsylvania),
Bologna, Italy, 1994
"Prospettiva storica sui problemi costituzionali odierni in Canada" University
of Pisa, Italy, 1994
"L'Église canadienne, les immigrants et leur identité 1880-1920" Canadian
Catholic Historical Associatio, Carleton University, 1993.
"The Problem of the Theology Student as Teacher: Strengthening Clerical
Education in Quebec in the late Nineteenth Century", at a colloquium on
theological education, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1993.
with Bill Westfall, "Religion and Canadian Culture: Exploring the Relationship
Between Two Cultures", Theoretical Discourse in the Canadian Intellectual
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Community, Association of Canadian Studies, St-Jovite, 1992.
"Ethnic Histories and National History" keynote address, New Challenges to
Ethnic Studies: the Response of University Chairs, Toronto, 1991
"Una Furia Più Che Francese: The Quebec Church and Vatican Diplomacy in
the Age of Anglo-Protestant Domination in Canada" Vatican Diplomacy in the
Modern Age, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, October 1991
"Ukrainian Immigrants and the Francophone Hierarchy in Western Canada"
at a symposium to mark the centennial of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in
Canada, Winnipeg, 1991
"The Papers of the Apostolic Delegation: Religion and Canadian Politics" at a
joint session of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian
Catholic Historical Association, Kingston, 1991
"Christian Churches in Late Victorian Canada and the Challenge of Italian
Immigrants" at an international seminar on "Religion and Ethnicity in North
America", Rome, March 7-9, 1991
"La découverte canadienne de Caboto ou les usages que l'on fait de l'histoire"
at a conference entitled "Venice and the Cabots: Italian-Canadian Relations",
University of Venice, 1990
"Clerics and the Constitution: The Quebec Church and Minority
Rights" Learned Societies, Canadian Catholic Historical Association,
Québec, 1989
"Rome as Another Metropolis of Canada" at the "Italy-Canada Research"
Conference held to mark the tenth anniversary of the Canadian Academic
Centre in Italy, Rome, 1988
"Gli emigrati italiani in Canada: protagonisti o comparse" at a
conference on "La Calabria dei Paesi'", Università della Calabria, 1987
"Il Consolato Italiano e la Propaganda Fascista a Montreal" at an
international conference on "Cultura e Società Nelle Americhe Degli
Anni Trenta", Università della Sapienza, Rome, 1985
"Religion, Ethnicity and Identity: Placing the Immigrant Within the
Church," at a conference on "Religion and Culture in Canada", Centre
for Religious Studies, University of Toronto, 1984
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"La Chiesa tra l'ideale e il reale nei confronti dell' immigrante italiano
in America" at a conference "Writing about the Italian Immigrant
Experience in Canada", Canadian Academic Centre in Italy, 1984
"L'histoire ethnique au Canada: un survol"
keynote address, Fifth
International Conference, Italian Association of Canadian Studies, Piazza
Armerina, 1983
"Histoire de la représentation du Saint-Siège au Canada" Fiftieth
Anniversary Conference, Canadian Catholic Historical Association,
Ottawa, 1983
"Making a Good Fascist and a Good Canadian: Consular Propaganda
and the Italians of Montreal in the 1930's", at a conference on
"Ethnicity and Relations with the Mother Country", York University,
1980
"Bishop Conroy and the Triumph of Elitism in Quebec Catholicism",
Canadian Historical Association, Saskatoon, 1979
"Contre l'esprit de parti: Mgr. Ignace Bourget, précurseur de l'Abbé Groulx",
Institut d'histoire de L'Amérique française, Montréal, 1978
"The Quiet Revolution Before and After" at a conference on "French
Canada Today" University of Edinburgh, March 1977
"The Church and Nationalism in French Canada, 1840-80" British
Association of Canadian Studies, Birmingham, 1976
OTHER PAPERS
"Le Québec est-il raciste", Société historique de Toronto, 1991.
"The Italians of Quebec: How to Arrangiarsi Amidst The Two Solitudes",
annual conference, Canadian Congress of Italian Canadians, Toronto 1990
"Ignazio Cardinal Persico in Canada, 1873-6" at a symposium entitled "The
Cultural Identity of Italian Canadians" York University, 1989
Guest lectures at the following universities: Milan (twice), Catania,
Florence, Venice, Bologna (twice), Genoa, Pisa, Padua, Birmingham,
Sussex, Warwick, 1976-1984
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WEB SITES
Places of Worship in West Toronto: Religiosity, Peoples and Changing
Neighbourhoods, www.glendon.yorku.ca/placesofworship
RESEARCH SUPPORT
SSHRC Connections Grant, 2012 ($38,550)
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Aid to Scholarly
Publications
2000 for Enemies Within, $8,244
1993 for Rome et le Canada, $6,324
1990 for Rome in Canada, $8,011
Multiculturalism and Citizenship Grant
“Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Toronto”, 1997-9, $35,000
“An inventory of documents relating to Canadian ethnic relations in
the Vatican Archives under Pope Benedict XV”, 1992-3, $28,300
SSHRC Canadian Studies Tools Strategic Grant
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Archives of the
Congregation ‘de Propaganda Fide’ under Leo XIII”, 1984, $62,200
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Vatican Secret Archives
under Pope Leo XIII” $55,500
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Vatican Secret Archives
under Pope Leo XIII”, 1986, $28,300
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Vatican Secret Archives
under Pope Pius X”, 1987, $58,420
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Vatican Secret Archives
under Pope Pius X”, 1989-90, $107,800
“An inventory of Canadian documents in the Vatican Secret Archives
under Benedict XV”, 91-92, 92-93, awarded but not funded
Atkinson Leave Fellowship, 1987-88
Glendon College Research Grant, 2002
Glendon College Travel Grant, 2001-2
Atkinson College Research Grant: 1981, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1997
Elia Chair Research Grant: 1991, 1993, 1994
SSHRC Travel and Small Grants: 1981, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2013
Sabbatical Leave Fellowship Fund: 1996
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WORK IN PROGRESS
. I have completed a manuscript (420 pages) on places of worship in Toronto
as markers of social and cultural change over the past century and a half.
Attention is particularly focused on the impact of immigration on
expressions of worship.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROFESSION
Professional Organizations and Journals
President, Canadian Society for Italian Studies, 2008-2010
Editor, Canadian Historical Association, Ethnic Booklets Series, 1995-2009
Member, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme Committee, Social Science
Federation of Canada/Humanities Federation of Canada, 1993-96
Member, Advisory Committee, Mens. Revue d’Histoire Intellectuelle de
l’Amérique Française, 2004-12
Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical
Studies, 1996-12
Comitato di Presidenza, Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Storia, Storia
dell'Arte e Archeologia in Roma, 1985
Editor, Annali Accademici Canadesi I (Dec. 1985), II (Winter 1986)
Ontario Representative, Steering Committee, Council of Canadian Studies
Administrators, 1981-2
Executive Member, British Association of Canadian Studies,
1975-77
Editor, Bulletin of Canadian Studies (forerunner of the British Journal of
Canadian Studies), 1976-77
Expert Contribution
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Consultant, Lord Cultural Resources Management and Planning, Canadian
Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 2012-13
Contribution to educational documentary entitled “The Italian Question:
Italian Canadian Internment During the Second World War” 2012
Consultant and on-camera commentary for a four-part television series,
“Sucre Alors! L’Origine des Sucreries,” for Historia Network, aired in Quebec
in November-December 2003; the English version entitled “A Sweet Paradise:
Inventions and Innovations” aired in Australia in December 2005
Contribution to extension course on Canadian History offered by the
University of Prince Edward Island, four programmes aired on CBCT-FM
Contribution to CJRT's "Open College" on the immigrant experience in
Canada for their survey course of Canadian history
Contribution for an educational video produced by Professor Martin Robin
entitled "Shirts, Blue Black and Brown: Fascism in Canada during the 1930s"
Occasional Radio and Television Interviews for the CBC, Radio Canada, TV
Ontario, TFO, MTV, OMNI-TV, BBC, Radio Scotland, RAI, Vatican Radio
Peer Assessments
Book-Length Manuscripts
. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992
. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993
. Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1998
. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999
. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000
. Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, 2000 (twice)
. Éditions du Boréal, 2005
. Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, 2008
. Éditions du Boréal, 2008
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grants
. 1981, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 2000, 02, 09
Scholarships
. Member, Canadian Scholarship Selection Committee, Humanities
Section, 2000-03
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References for Promotion and Awards
. Associate Professor with tenure: Mark McGowan, History, University
of Toronto, 1995
. Monique Benoît, Library and Archives of Canada, 1997
. Nominator, Canada Research Chair, Queen’s University, 2001
. David Thelen prize, Organization of American Historians, 2003, 2005
. Nominator, Governor General’s International Award in Canadian
Studies, 2003, 2008
. Victorin Chabot, Library and Archives Canada, 2005
. Full Professor: Franca Iacovetta, History, University of Toronto, 2007
. Full Professor, Sylvie Lacombe, Sociology, Laval University, 2009
. Associate Professor with tenure: Michel Bock, History, University of
Ottawa, 2009
. Full Professor, Martin Pâquet, History, Laval University 2011
. Nomination letter for Paul-André Linteau, Prix scientifique du Québec
Léon-Gérin, 2011
. Renewal of the holder of the Francophonie canadienne Canada
Research Chair, University of Ottawa, 2011
Scholarly Articles for Publication
. Archivaria 1976
. Canadian Historical Review 1981, 1989
. Revue de l'université d'Ottawa
. Études d’histoire religieuse 1993
. Canadian Catholic Historical Association Historical Studies 1991, 92,
93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 2002, 2003
. Historical Studies in Education 1999
. International Journal of Canadian Studies 1990, 91, 92, 98
. Social History/Histoire sociale 1992, 2000, 2007, 2009
. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française 1994, 95
. Labour/Le travail 1996, 98
. Canadian Ethnic Studies 2000
. Mens 2006
. Urban History Review/Revue d’Histoire Urbaine, 2011
. American Review of Canadian Studies, 2010
Contribution to Research Projects and Scholarly Institutions
Member, Academic Advisory Committee to the Director, Multicultural
History Society of Ontario, 1990-7
Member, Editorial Board, Multicultural History Society, Encyclopedia of
Canada's Peoples, 1991-7
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Director, project involving the supervision of two research assistants to
prepare an inventory of Canadian documents contained in the Vatican
Archives for the period 1878 to 1914, 1984 to 1994
Consultant, Dictionnaire biographique
Canadian Biography tome XV
du
Canada/Dictionary
of
Organization of Scholarly Conferences
Chair, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Association of
Canadian Studies, Learned Societies, Montreal, 1995
Co-organizer, international conference on "The Internment of ItaloCanadians during the Second World War" Toronto, October 13-14, 1995
Co-organizer, two-day workshop on "Negotiating with a Sovereign Quebec"
Atkinson College, York University, February 7-8, 1992
Sole Organizer, International Conference on "Writing About the Italian
Immigrant Experience in Canada", Canadian Academic Centre in Italy, 1984
Organizer for a Day Conference on "French Canada Today", University of
Edinburgh, March 1977
Participation at Scholarly Conferences
Keynote Speaker
. International Conference, Les archives du Vatican: pistes et défis
pour la recherche sur le Québec et l’Amérique française, Rome, May
2011
. Conference Origines et appartenances : l’identité irlandaise du
Québec, Association Canadienne-Fançaise pour l’Avancement des
Sciences, May 2011
. Atlantic Association of Historians, Université de Moncton, 1998
. Ethnic Chairs Conference, New Challenges to Ethnic Studies: the
Response of University Chairs, Toronto, 1991
. History Teachers’ Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1986
. Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, 1983
Session Chair
. American Society of Church History, Montreal 2009
. “Identifying Immigrants' Social Needs", Association of Canadian
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Studies, Montreal, 1995
. "Uses of the Past: Uses of the Record" at a conference on "The Future
of Your Past: Preserving the Ethnic Record", Multicultural History
Society of Ontario, November, 1991
. "Italian Documents and Canadian History. The State of Research"
Ottawa, 1991
. "Société civile et ethnicité" at the annual meeting of the Institut
d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, Sherbrooke, 1989
. Italian Writers Abroad at a conference on Italian Canadian Literature,
York Univerity, 1988
Commentator
.Canadian Historical Association, Toronto, 2002
.Joint Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association and the
Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Toronto, 2001
.Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Toronto 2000
.Laskin 1992 Symposium on "Law, Language and the Courts" held a
the University of New Brunswick Law Faculty, Fredericton, 1992
.Historical Conference, Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Over 150
Years, University of St. Michael's College, 1990
.Canadian Historical Association, Hamilton, 1987
.American Italian Historical Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1981
.Association
of
Canadian
Studies,
London,
1978
Lecture tour at the request of the Department of External
Affairs to promote Canadian Studies in Italy, February 1977 and
March 1980
TEACHING
GRADUATE FACULTY
MA: 31 completed; 1 in progress
29 supervisions; 1 co-supervision; 1 supervisory committee (Canadian
Studies)
PhD: 20 completed; 10 in progress
10 supervisions; 3 co-supervisions; 17 supervisory committees
Supervisor, PhD dissertation in History, University of Toronto
. Enrico Cumbo, 1989-1996
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Supervisor, PhD dissertation in History, York University
. Alexis Lachaîne, 2001-07
. nominated for the Faculty of Graduate Studies prize
. Maurice Demers, 2002-10 (co-supervision)
. nominated for the Faculty of Graduate Studies prize
. Susana Miranda, 2003-10
. Mathieu Lapointe, 2002-10
. Frank Peddie 2007-12 (co-supervision)
. Ben Bryce 2009-13 (co-supervision)
. nominated for the Faculty of Graduate Studies prize
. Eric Payseur, 2005-13
. Samira Saramo 2007. Evgeny Efremkin 2008. Chris Grafos 2010. Gilberto Fernandes 2010. Avril Liberatori 2011Students receiving the mention
comprehensive exams
. Alexis Lachaine, 2002
. Maurice Demers, 2003
. Susana Miranda, 2004
. Frank Peddie, 2007
. Chris Grafos, 2010
. Gilberto Fernandes, 2010
of
distinction
in
their
doctoral
Supervisory committee, PhD dissertation in History, York University
. Mario Gravel, Brigitte Cairus, Jamie Trépanier, Mike Ainsworth, Serge
Miville
. Michael Poplyansky 2012
.Aitana Guia 2011
. Éric Dussault 2011
. Jack Cecillon 2007
.Pascal Maeder 2007
.Todd Stubbs 2007
. Todd Webb 2006
. Audrey Pyée 2005
. Melissa Turkstra 2005
. Xavier Gélinas 2001
. Dong Linfu 2001
. Myra Rutherdale 1996
Supervisory Committee, MA Thesis in Interdisciplinary Studies, York
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University
. Suzanne Desrochers 2007
External Examiner
. Jan Raska, PhD in History, University of Waterloo, 2013
. Dominique Foisy-Geoffrion, PhD in History, Université Laval, 2008
. Jean-Claude Dupuis, PhD in History, Université Laval, 2005
. Robert Richard Smale, EdD in History, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, 2000
.Michael Fallon, PhD in History, Guelph University, 2000
. Louise Mussio, PhD in History, McMaster University, 2000
. Angelo Principe, PhD in Italian Studies, University of Toronto, 1989
Outside examiner, MA thesis, York University
.Brad Chin You (Geography), 2007
. Lisa Oliveira (Geography), 2004
. Caroline Dissler (Translation), 2004
. Diane DeGenova Narol (Geography), 2003
. Valentina Capurri (Geography), 2003
. Charles Strazzieri (Geography), 2003
. Dimitrios Grafos, (Geography), 2001
. Alessandra Miklavcic (Anthropology), 1999
Dean’s representative, York University
. Bruce Douville, PhD dissertation in History, 2012
. Kelly Train, PhD dissertation in Sociology, 2008
. Patricia Dumas, MA thesis in Translation, 2004
. Paula Maurutto, PhD dissertation in Sociology, 1998
. Marino Tuzi, PhD dissertation in English, 1995
Member of examining board, PhD dissertation in History, Franca Iacovetta,
York University, 1988
Supervisor, Major Research Paper, MA History
1994 Lynn Berry
1996 Darren Préfontaine
Tina Antoniou
1999 Peter Binelli
Joe Campisi
Jadranka Bacic
Sharon Shpuniarsky (co-supervisor)
2002 Frank McDevitt
Nicola Bush
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2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2012
2013
Christian Borges
Susanna Miranda
Dominika Przewor
Teresa Welsh
Jérôme Laflamme
Stuart Parker
David Dowe
Nino Scavello
Christine La Fleur
Tricia Hong
Nader Awad
Anthony Lascala
Vicky Giannoutsos
Ben Bryce
Chris Grafos
Mike Amatiello
Rachel Jonsson
Gino Gaudio
Sun-Kyung Yi
Andriy Michalchyshyn
Vanessa Lovisa
Daniel Ohanian
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
University of Toronto (1981)
FRE2081Y: 6 lectures to graduate students on Quebec literature
York University
History 5530.03/06: North American Immigrant Experience
1992-3, 1995-6, 1998-9, 1999-2000, 2001-2, 2002-3,
2004-5, 2005, 2006-7, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2010, 2011-12,
2013
History 5133.06: The French Presence in North America
2000-1, 2006
History 5130.03/06: Social and Cultural History of Religion in
Canada, 1993, 1997-8
History 5060.03: Directed Reading Course
Mike Buzzelli 1995
Larry Palin 1998
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Benahz Mirzai Asl 1999
Julia Lütsch 2001
Éric de Garie 2006-7
Nader Awad 2008
Ben Bryce 2008-09
Chris Grafos 2010
History 6001: Directed Reading Course
Shannon Stettner and Nicole Axelson 2001-2
Todd Stubbs and Denise Challenger 2002-3
Maurice Demers and Mathieu Lapointe 2002-3
History 6030.06: participation in Canadian History Field Seminar
1997-8, 1998-9, 2002-3, 2004-5, 2005-6, 2006-7, 2007-8,
2008-9, 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
York University
AK/HIST 2420.06
GL/HIST 2670F.06
GL/HIST 2670. 06
AK/CDNS 2000.06
AK/CDNS 3000.06
AK/HIST 3000.03
GL/HIST 3010.03
GL/HIST 3011.03
GL/HIST 3310 O3
GL/HIST 3315 03
AK/HIST 3330.03
AK/HIST 3330.06A
History of Canada (1608-1970)
A1978, A1979, S1980, 1980-1, S1982, 1985-6, 19867, 1994
Histoire du Canada (1608-1970)
1978-9, 1979-80, 1980-1, 1986-7, 1989-90, 1993-4,
1995-6, 1997-8, 1999-2000, 2001-2
History of Canada Since 1663, 2002-3
Introduction to Canadian Studies, 1981-2
Theoretical Approaches to Canadian
Studies, W1978, W1979
The Immigrant Experience in Canada, W1982,
Religion and Religious Practices in Canada from
Amerindian Times to the Twentieth Century, 2001
Religion and Religious Practices in Canada: The
Twentieth Century, 2002, 2006
Francophonies d’Amérique (Le Canada français)
de 1608-1867
1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2012
Francophonies d’Amérique (Le Canada français) de
1867 à 1970
1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2013
The Church in Quebec, A1981
The Roots of Contemporary Quebec
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GL/HIST 3346 6
AK/HIST 3580.06
AK/HIST 3630.03
AK/HIST 3700.06
GL/HUM SS3670A-B
AS/HIST 4000
GL/HIST 4000
GL/CDNS 4000F.06
GL/CDNS 4000E.06
AS/HIST 4050C
AK/HIST 4070
GL/HIST 4100
GL/HIST 4100
AK/HIST 4200
GL/HIST 4500
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Nationalism, 1991, 1992-3
The Immigrant Experience in Canada, 2007-8, 2013
French Canada, 1977-8, 1978-9, 1980-1, 1988-9,
1989-90
Quebec: Society, Identity and Change, W1994
The Immigrant Experience in Canada
Before 1945, 1990-1, 1997-8
Le multiculturalisme Images du Canada, 1980, 1981
Honours Essay
Miki Fisher, 2002-1
Honours Thesis
Peter Garver, 2004-05
Mémoire de Spécialisation
Ronald Ramier, 1995-6
Honours Thesis
Christine Anderson, 2002-3
Family, Work, and Community in Canada
2000-01
French Canada, 1979-80
Directed Reading
Jeffrey Marcil, 1993-4
Honours Reading Course
Laurence Gottlieb, 2002-3
Themes in Canadian Social and Cultural History,
1985-6, 1986-7, 1989-90
Historiography (co-taught)
2008, 2012
University of Toronto
Uni201F
Aspects of Quebec Society, 1981-2
University of Edinburgh (1975-1977)
French 2
Cdn Studies I
Cdn Studies II
Cdn Studies III
History 4
La civilisation canadienne française
The Peopling and Resources of Canada
The History of Canada 1608-1942
Contemporary Issues in Canadian Life
The Evolution of French Canadian Nationalism
1837-1917
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Simon Fraser University (Summer Semester 1973)
1.Social and Political Themes in Post-Confederation Canada
2.French Canadian Nationalism 1840-1960
COURSES MOUNTED
History 5530.06: North American Immigrant Experience
History 5133.06: The French Presence in North America
History 5130.03: Social and Cultural History of Catholicism in Canada
AK/HIST 3000.03 : The Immigrant Experience in Canada
GL/HIST 3010.03: Religion and Religious Practices in Canada from
Amerindian Times to the Twentieth Century
GL/HIST 3011.03: Religion and Religious Practices in Canada: The Twentieth
Century
AK/HIST 3330.03 : The Church in Quebec
AK/HIST 3330.06A: The Roots of Contemporary Quebec Nationalism
AK/HIST 3630.03 : Quebec: Society, Identity and Change
SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
Member, Teaching Evaluation Committee, 2007-9
Chair, History Department, Glendon College, 2004-07
Chair, File Preparation Committee for Promotion to Associate Professor with
Tenure, 2006, 2009
Member, File Preparation Committee for Promotion to Full Professor,
2005
Member, Teaching Evaluation Committee, 2005
Member, Affirmative Action and Graduate Studies Representative, Hiring
Committee, Glendon College History Department, 2003
Chair, History Department, Atkinson College, 1988-89
Coordinator of the Canadian Studies Programme, Atkinson College,
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1980-82
Member of the Board of Historical Studies, University of Edinburgh,
1976-77
Member of the Committee for the Centre of Canadian Studies,
University of Edinburgh 1975-77
GLENDON FACULTY
Chair, Adjudicating Committee, Tenure and Promotion, Multidisciplinary
Studies, 2013
Member, Petitions Committee, 2012-13
Member, Committee for the Selection of a new Chair in French Studies,
2012
Dean’s Representative, Sociology Department Hiring Committee, 2012
Assessor of Teaching for Tenure and Promotion File: Humanities (2003),
Economics (2006), Translation Studies (2011), Political Science
(2012)
Assessor of Research for Tenure and Promotion File, Languages,
Literatures, and Linguistics (2010)
Referee: University-Wide Teaching Award (2007), Principal’s Award for
Research, 2011
Member, Merit Pay Committee, 2011
Member, Petitions Committee, 2007-8
Chair, Board, Senior Common Room, 2007-9
Member, Search Committee, Chair of French Studies, 2007
Chair, Selection Committee for the Chair of Multidisciplinary Studies,
Glendon College, 2002
Evaluator for Tenure and Promotion, Scholarship, Fine Arts (2000)
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Atkinson representative, Sabbatical Leave Fellowship Fund Committee, 1995
Member, Atkinson Fellowship Adjudication Committee, 1991
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Études Françaises et
Langues Modernes, Atkinson College, 1991
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Fine Arts, Atkinson
College, 1989
Member, Nominating Committee, Atkinson College, 1988
Library Committee, Atkinson College, 1980-81
Committee on Examinations and Academic Standards, Atkinson College,
1979-81
GRADUATE FACULTY
Member, Admissions Committee for PhD candidates in History, 1996, 2013
Graduate Programme Director, School of Public and International Affairs,
2008-10
Member, Executive Committee, Graduate History Programme, 1990, 1994,
1995, 2002
UNIVERSITY
President's Advisory Committee on the Mariano A. Elia Chair of Italian
Canadian Studies, 1985-99
Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies, Advisory Council, 1985-86, 2001-04
Senate Research Committee, 1981-82
UNION
Nominating Committee, York University Faculty Association, 1980-81
Negotiating Committee, York University Faculty Association, 1979-80
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COMMUNITY
Vice-Chair, Italian-Canadian Advisory Committee, Canadian Historical
Recognition Programme, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2009-12
Speaker at the Canadian Committee on Labour History’s annual workshop
entitled “Organized Labour, Immigrants, and the Urban Experience”, May
2006
Participant in a one-day symposium “Facing our Future With an Eye to the
Past” to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Columbus Centre, May 2005
Lecture on “Quebec Between Change and Continuity” in a series for Seniors
on Canada Then and Now, Innis College, March 2005
Lecturer in a series on US-Canadian Relations, Living and Learning in
Retirement, Glendon College, 2003
Co-ordinator, series of ten lectures on the Peopling of Canada for Learning
Unlimited for Etobicoke Seniors, Fall 2002
Led a Walking Tour of Places of Worship in the Toronto Junction for the
York University Retirees Association, 2001
Interviewed by TFO on the Papacy of John Paul II, 2000
Talk on Canadian Unity at Canadian Cultural Symposium held at Milliken
Mills High School, Unionville, 1999
“Quebec and Immigration,” Talk at the Don Heights Unitarian Congregation,
November 1998
“The Marchigiani in Canada,” Talk at a conference in commemoration of
Italian Canadian Immigrants, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto,
November 1998
Chair, Panel on “Youth: Harvesting Our Oral History” Fogolârs Federation of
Canada, Québec, 1998
Panelist, "Quebec and Canada: Where Do We Go From Here", St Lawrence
Centre Forum and Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs, March 1996
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"Themes in Canadian Immigration History as Illustrated in the Perin Family
Peregrinations," Talk at a conference entitled Friuli Venezia Giulia: Its
Contribution to the Development of Canada, Famee Furlane, Vaughan, March
1996
"The Quebec Referendum: Will Canada Ever Be the Same Again?" Shaar
Shalom Brotherhood, October 1995
"Giovanni Caboto, Founder of Canada: Myths and Realities," Talk at the
Veneto Centre, September 1995
Panelist, Public Forum "Beyond Columbus: the Next Five Hundred Years"
organized by the Toronto Board of Education, 1992
Member, Comité de révision des critères d'admission, Conseil des Écoles
Françaises de la Communauté Urbaine de Toronto, 1992
Guest Speaker, Giovanni Caboto Symposium, National Congress of Italian
Canadians : Toronto District, 1991
Submission to the Special Committee on the Role of Ontario in
Confederation, Ontario Legislature, 18 Feb. 1991
Lecture on “The Break-Up of Canadian History”, Later Life Learning Lecture
Series, University of Toronto, 1991
Talk on Quebec During the Quiet Revolution, City Alternative High School,
1990
Speaker, Symposium on Italian Canadian History, National Congress of
Italian Canadians, Toronto, 1990
Consultant, MTV-Channel 47, six-part series on the Italian Canadian Family
Guest on CBC "Radio Noon" to provide analysis on the career of René
Lévesque, January 1987
Moderator, International Symposium on Italian Migration: The Calabrian
Case, Murray A. Elia Chair in Italian Canadian Studies, York University, 1986
Vice-Chair, French Language Advisory Committee, Toronto Board of
Education 1986-7; member, 1980-82, 1985-88
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Public Lecture on "L'immigrante italiano nella storia canadese" Sala
Malatestiana, Fano, Italy, February 1985
Executive member, Toronto Chapter, Association Canadienne
Française de l'Ontario, 1980-82
Weekly commentaries on Canadian history for the Toronto French Radio
Station CJBC, 1979-81
Public Debate "Resolved that Quebec is a National Entity Entitled to its
Sovereignty" with Prof. Desmond Morton, Hart House, 1979