Faculty

After receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and history from McGill University, Gordon Barker entered the graduate program in American history at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He received his MA in 2003 and completed his PhD in 2008 after defending his dissertation entitled Anthony Burns and the North-South Dialogue on Slavery, Liberty, Race and the American Revolution. His fields of concentration are the American Revolution, African Americans, and Antebellum America. Gordon Barker contributed articles on Anthony Burns, Charles Sumner, and the Compromise of 1850 for Oxford University Press's reference edition on African American history entitled From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. He also wrote articles on Samuel Chase, Benjamin Rush, and Charles Sumner for the American Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties. His recent publications include two journal articles published by the Virginia Historical Society entitled "Secession and Slavery as a Positive Good: The Impact of the Anthony Burns Drama in Boston on Virginia," and "Unraveling the Strange History of Jefferson's Observations sur la Virginie." He has also published a review of Jerry W. Knudson's Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Gordon Barker's book entitled The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America was published by Kent State University Press in September 2010.

Cristian Berco (Ph.D. Arizona, 2002) joined Bishop's in 2004. His research interests include the history of sexuality, disease, and religion in early modern Spain from a social perspective. His book Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2007, examines sodomy trials in the Aragonese Inquisition. He has also published in various academic journals and edited collections and is currently researching the impact of syphilis on patients and communities in the Castilian heartland, through a SSHRC funded project. Dr. Berco teaches the history of medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and modern Latin America

Michael Childs obtained his doctorate at McGill University and came to Bishop's in 1988. A specialist in modern Britain and social history, his study of working class adolescents in Britain, Labour's Apprentices, was selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book. He has also published in scholarly journals in Canada, the United States and Britain, and is presently at work on a book-length study of an English city in World War I. Dr. Childs teaches British and Western European history, courses in family and youth history, and historiography. He has been the recipient of the University's William and Nancy Turner Award for excellence in teaching.

Louis-Georges Harvey was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B. A. Honours) and the University of Ottawa (M. ès Arts, Ph. D.). Dr. Harvey teaches in the areas of American and Quebec history, and the history of the Americas in comparative perspective. His areas of research specialization include book history, the history of political discourse, and the study of cross-cultural communication. He is the author of numerous articles published in scholarly journals and collections across North America in both French and English, and has recently published Le Printemps de l'Amérique française. Américanité, anticolonialisme et républicanisme dans le discours politique québécois, 1805-1837 (Montréal: Boréal, 2005). Recipient of the Student Representative Council's Teaching Award for Humanities in 1999, Dr. Harvey was also designated one of the university's most popular professors in the Macleans reputational surveys of 1999, 2000 and 2002. Dr. Harvey currently holds an SSHRC research grant (2007-2010). In addition to his academic endeavors, Louis-Georges Harvey is a regular contributor on community radio and is frequently invited to speak to community groups.

Jean Manore received her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa in 1995. From there, she went on to post-doctoral studies at Trent University and the University of Calgary, coming to Bishop's in 2001. Her research interests focus on Native/settler relations, the environment and technological development. Her publications include Cross-Currents: Hydro-Electricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario, an edited volume on The Culture of Hunting and articles published in Canada and the United States. Dr. Manore teaches Canadian and American history, both in a national and comparative context. In addition to her academic interests, Dr. Manore is also a research consultant for the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and various provincial counterparts.