University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Barry Ferguson
Barry Ferguson

Professor

Office: 251 St. John's College
e-mail: Barry.Ferguson@ad.umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-6407

EDUCATION

Ph.D.,York University
M.A., Carleton University
B.A.(Hons.), University of British Columbia

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Canadian political ideas, including liberalism and federalism; federal-provincial relations and western Canadian, especially Manitoba, provincial politics; comparative contemporary social trends.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Manitoba Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries edited with Robert Wardhaugh, (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2010)
Recent Social Trends in Canada: 1960-2000 with Lance W. Roberts et al, (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005).
Remaking Liberalism: The Intellectual Legacy of Adam Shortt, O.D. Skelton, W.C. Clark, and W.A. Mackintosh, 1890-1925 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993). Electronic version available through the University of Manitoba Library (Note: access requires UM library account).
Athabasca Oil Sands: Northern Resource Exploration, 1875 to 1951 (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1986).

COURSES TAUGHT

2012-2013
HIST 1390 History of Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 1400 History of the Canadian Nation since 1867
2011-2012
HIST 1390 History of Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 1400 History of the Canadian Nation since 1867
2010-2011
HIST 3052 Canada since the 1960s
HIST 4280/7670 (Term 2) Social and Intellectual History in Canada 
2009-2010
On leave
2008-2009
HIST 3050 Canada from 1945
2007-2008
HIST 2960 Canada 1867 to 1921
2006-2007
HIST 2970 Canada after 1921
2005-2006
11.470/729 Canada since 1896