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- Originally trained as a historian of early Canada, over time he expanded the scope of his research and teaching to include colonial North America, the history of native peoples of the Americas and the history of the Atlantic World. He is centrally involved in Montreal's French Atlantic History Group.
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Allan Greer has published extensively on, among other topics, the social history of early French Canada, the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38, state formation, the early modern Jesuits, religious change and colonization, colonial saints, property and the history and historiography of New France.
Allan Greer is the Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America, and a professor of history at McGill University. His research focuses on the history of native peoples of the Americas...
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Jul 19, 2024 · Allan Greer is professor emeritus of history at McGill University. Image Credit: MQUP
Awards, honours, and fellowships: (2020) J.B. Tyrell Historical Medal (Royal Society of Canada) (2013) Killam Fellowship. (2011) Royal Society of Canada Fellows (Academy I: Academy of the Arts and Humanities) (2008) John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Specialization by time period: 2020. 2013. 2011.
Sep 15, 2020 · But thanks to Professor Allan Greer, a Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America from the Department of History, this attitude is changing. His work in this area is one reason why he has been awarded the 2020 J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.
Allan Greer’s masterful work proves, the study of the lives of the saints, approached from a historical and sociological point of view, is perhaps more rewarding than ever. In his preface, Greer explains how he came to focus on “a Mohawk woman of the early colonial period whose short life happens to be more fully documented
Allan Greer is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America at McGill University. He has published seven books on the history of Quebec, New France and colonial North America which have won a number of national and international prizes.
