Associate Professor Office: 222 St. John's College e-mail: Len_Kuffert@umanitoba.ca Phone: (204) 474-8106 EDUCATION Ph.D., McMaster University M.A., University of British Columbia B.A.(Hons.) and B.Ed., University of Saskatchewan

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural history of 20th century Canada, especially the history of radio; the concept of taste; citizenship/activism and its connection to culture; the esoteric arts (astrology, the paranormal, etc.)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“‘What do you expect of this friend?’: Canadian radio and the intimacy of broadcasting,” Media History 15(3) (August 2009): 303-319.

“The Privileges of Democracy: defending Culture in wartime Canada,” in Muriel Chamberlain and Andrew Hiscock, eds., Engaging the Enemy: Canada in the 1940s (Ammanford, Wales: Dinewfr Press, 2006)

A Great Duty:Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).

"'stabbing our spirits broad awake': Reconstructing Canadian Culture, 1940-1948", in Christie and Gauvreau, eds., Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).

"'Reckoning with the Machine': The British Columbia Social Credit Movement as Social Criticism, 1932-1952", BC Studies 124 (Winter 1999/2000): 9-39.

COURSES TAUGHT

2011-2012
On leave

2010-2011
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 2286 Modern Canada
HIST 4280-7670 (Term 1) Social and Intellectual History in Canada

2009-10
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 1400 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 3250 Canada and the World, 1867 to the Present

2008-09
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 1400 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 4280/7670 Topics in the Cultural History of Canada

2007-08
HIST 1400 History of the Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 3780 Studies in Canadian History I: Cultures in Common

2006-07
HIST 1390 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 1440 History of Canada
HIST 4280/7670 Cultural History of Canada