Email: gread4@huron.uwo.ca
Office Location: HUC A217
Office Phone: (519) 438-7224 ext. 222
B.A. (Huron), M.A. (York), Ph.D. (York)
I am preparing a book manuscript for publication on gender and the political parties on interwar France and have published on gender and the French right in the 1920s and 1930s. I'm also working, with my co-author Todd Webb, on the portrayal of Louis Riel and the Matis resistance in Western Canada in the trans-Atlantic press. From this work we hope to proceed to a book on messianic resistance to western imperialism in the late nineteenth century. In addition, I'm pursuing a new book project on single men in the French Empire, and have signed a contract with Oxford University Press to co-edit (with Kristin Burnett) a volume of essays on the history of First Nations peoples in Canada.
I teach a great deal of world history. I find it particularly interesting to study and teach the history of global interconnections and interconnectedness. My interest in teaching in this field stems from and stimulates my research on western imperialism. I'm also keen to demonstrate the relevance of historical inquiry in the present; this is most obvious in my new third-year course Current Crises in Historical Perspective. Generally speaking, I'm a very engaged instructor who is passionate about and interested in a wide variety of material, and I try to encourage a similar passion or engagement in my students.
Des Hommes et des citoyens: Paternalism and Masculinity on the Republican Right in Interwar France, 1919-1939, Historical Reflections/Raflexions historique 34, 2 (summer 2008): 88-111.
He Is Depending on You: Militarism, Martyrdom and the Appeal to Manliness in the Case of France's Croix de Feuâ, 1931-1940, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19 (2005): 261-292.
Forthcoming (2011), with Todd Webb, Only Pemmican Eaters: The Formation of Matis Identities in the Atlantic World, 1869-85. In Aboriginal History Reader. Burnett, Kristin and Geoff Read, eds. (Oxford University Press).
Forthcoming (2011), with Kristin Burnett, eds. Aboriginal History Reader (Oxford University Press).
