University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Professor

Office: 450 Fletcher Argue Building
e-mail: robinjarvis.brownlie@ad.umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-9101

 

EDUCATION

    Ph.D. University of Toronto
    M.A. University of Toronto
    B.A. University of Toronto

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Canadian Aboriginal history, Colonization and race, Oral history

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    “‘A better citizen than lots of white men’: First Nations Enfranchisement: an Ontario Case Study, 1918-1940,” Canadian Historical Review 87:1 (March, 2006), 29-52.

    “Intimate Surveillance: Indian Affairs, Colonization, and the Regulation of Aboriginal Women’s Sexuality,” in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past, eds. Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005), 160-78.

    “‘Nothing left for me or any other Indian’: the Georgian Bay Anishinabek and Inter-War Articulations of Aboriginal Rights,” Ontario History, vol. XCVI, no. 2 (Autumn 2004), 116-42.

    A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2003).

    “Work Hard and Be Grateful: Native Soldier Settlers in Ontario After the First World War,” in Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson, eds., On the Case: Explorations in Social History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 181-203.

    “Man on the Spot: John M. Daly, Indian Agent in Parry Sound, 1922-1939,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 1994, 63-86.

    (with Mary-Ellen Kelm) “Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonialist Alibi?” Canadian Historical Review, vol. LXXV, No.4 (December 1994), 543-56; re-printed in Ken Coates and Robin Fisher, eds., Out of the Background. Readings in Canadian Native History, Second Edition (Toronto: Copp Clark Ltd., 1996), 210-22.

COURSES TAUGHT

    2012-2013
    HIST 2280 Aboriginal History in Canada
    HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method & Historiography

    2011-2012
    HIST 2280 Aboriginal History in Canada
    HIST 4120/7760 History of Aboriginal Rights

    2010-2011
    HIST 2280 (Term 2) Aboriginal History in Canada
    HIST 3780 Studies in Canadian History I: Race & Immigration in Canadian History
    HIST 4400/7700 (Term 2) Historical Method & Historiography

    2009-10
    HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada
    HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method & Historiography

    2008-09
    HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method and Historiography

    2007-08
    HIST 3730 (T1) History of Western Canada

    2006-07
    HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada