Email: nreidmar@huron.uwo.ca
Office Location: HUC A305
Office Phone: (519) 438-7224 ext. 358
B.A. (Western), M.A. (Sussex), Ph.D. (Toronto)
My research is centred on the history of the American Enlightenment, and on religion, women and anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century. I recently complete a book about race, religion and Canada's first ordained woman in Protestant ministry, the Reverend Jennie Johnson (1868-1967). I am currently working two research projects. The first is a book about the American Revolutionary, Benjamin Rush. The second is a Community-University Research Alliance (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) focused on recovering and re-interpreting the history of African Canadian communities in nineteenth-century Chatham-Kent, The Promised Land Project.
My teaching places the study of American history within the global framework of the History program. I teach the American history survey course, African American history, a course on American social reformers and utopian thought ('American Dreams') and 'The Historians Craft'. All of my courses are directly informed by my programs of research, and several courses include Community-based Learning components that integrate research and teaching in new ways. These projects give students a chance to engage in lasting scholarship while they think about the social and political contexts in which our knowledge about the past is created.
Philadelphia's Enlightenment, 1740-1800: Kingdom of Christ, Empire of Reason. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Women and the American Enlightenment and Benjamin Rush Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment ed. Mark Spencer (New York, Thoemmes Press, forthcoming 2010)
The Promised Land? History and Historiography of Black Experience in Chatham and Dawn Settlements. B. E. de B'beri, N. Reid-Maroney and H. K. Wright, eds., Canadian Studies/ African and Diasporic Culture Studies Series, University of Ottawa Press (accepted)
