Dr. Maxime Dagenais is the Research Program Manager for ARiEAL and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. He was a L.R. Wilson postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014, a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2016, and from 2016-21 he was the coordinator of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Ottawa. A historian of New France, British North America, and early America, he is the co-author (with Béatrice Craig) of The Land in Between. The Upper St. John Valley, Prehistory to World War One and the co-editor (with Julien Mauduit) of Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion. His articles have appeared in Canadian Military History, Canadian Journal of Media Studies, Australasian-Canadian Studies, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Bulletin d’histoire politique, Quebec Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Enjeux de l’univers social, and The Conversation. He is currently on working on a SSHRC Partnership Grant project – Thinking Historically about Canada’s Future – which seeks to reassess history education in K-12 across Canada.
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Research Program Manager, ARiEAL, McMaster University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, McMaster University
Research Associate, Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University
“La Rébellion canadienne, le sud des États-Unis, et l’esclavage.” Enjeux de l’univers social (Accepted for publication, Fall 2022)
“Une opportunité manquée: la Rébellion canadienne (1837-38) dans les manuels scolaires au Canada.” Enjeux de l’univers social 16, No 2 (December 2020): 29-32. Also published in English as “A Missed Opportunity: Teaching the Rebellion (1837-38)” with Canada’s History.
“La Rébellion au-delà des frontières nationales: clarifier la discussion.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 28, No 2 (Summer 2020): 170-76. With Julien Mauduit.
“Research Note: The Canadian Rebellion, the American South, and Slavery.” American Review of Canadian Studies 49, No 4 (Winter 2019-20): 563-572.
Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. With Julien Mauduit
“[…] those who had money were opposed to us, and those who were our friends were not the moneyed class.” Philadelphia and the 1837-38 Canadian Rebellion.” American Review of Canadian Studies 48 (Spring 2017): 1-17.
“‘La mort du conseil spécial est la meilleure action que ce corps ait faite durant sa vie […]’: The French Canadian Press and the Special Council of Lower-Canada, 1838-41.” Quebec Studies 62 (December 2016): 25-46.
“‘L’histoire dira que Lord Durham a préféré une petite faction, et l’exposera comme une des aberrations humaines de notre époque.’ Comment Lord Durham perdit le support des Canadiens-français.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 23, No. 2 (Winter 2015): 181-203.
The Land In Between: The Upper Saint John Valley: Prehistory to World War One. Commissioned by the National Parks Service (US) and the Maine Acadian Heritage Council. Gardiner, Me.: Tilbury House, 2009, 464p. Written jointly with Béatrice Craig.
“‘Une Permission! … C’est bon pour une recrue.’ Discipline and Illegal Absences in the 22nd (French-Canadian) Battalion, 1915-1919.” Canadian Military History 18, No. 4 (Autumn 2009): 3-16.