• A photo of George Buri
  • Instructor

    Faculty of Arts
    Department of History
    Room 343 University College
    66 Chancellor's Circle
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M8

    Phone: 204-474-6939
    george.buri@umanitoba.ca

Teaching

  • HIST 1370 - Modern World History, 1500-1800
  • HIST 2670 - History of Capitalism
  • HIST 2734 - Modern World History, 1980-Present: New World Order?
  • HIST 3580 - Topics in World History: 1968
  • HIST 2230 - United States from 1607
  • HIST 1400 - History of Canadian Nation Since 1867
  • HIST 1440 - History of Canada
  • HIST 3052 - Canada Since the 1960s

Biography

Instructor in the fields of Canadian, American and World History.

Education

  • PhD (History), University of Manitoba, 2009
  • MA (History), York University, 2002
  • BA, Brandon University, 2001

Selected publications

  • "Between Education and Catastrophe: The Battle over Public Schooling in Postwar Manitoba," Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
  • "Roxie Hart Wasn't Welcome in Winnipeg: Film Censorship, Crime and Nationalism in early 20th Century Manitoba," Screening Justice: Canadian Crime Films and Society, Fernwood: 2016.
  • “Enemies Within Our Gates: Brandon's Alien Detention Centre During the Great War 1914-1916," Manitoba History 56, October 2007.

Awards

  • 2021 - Arts Student Body Council (ASBC) World Teacher Day Award
  • 2015 - Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award 

Outreach

  • Wrote and Performed one person Fringe Festival storytelling show, "All of Human History in 7 Stories" at 2022 Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals.
  • Manitoba Theatre Centre: Created study guides for public and student audiences for productions of: Boom, Boom X, Armstrong’s War, Other People’s Money, A Christmas Story and Gone with the Wind.

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