The Visiting Bicentennial Professorship of Canadian Studies has been held by over seventeen distinguished scholars since 1997 in fields ranging across History, English, Comparative Literature, History, Political Science, Economics, Architecture, Law, Anthropology, Film Studies, African-American Studies and Latin American Studies.
These visiting professorships were made possible by a gift in 1976 from the Canadian government to Yale of the Bicentennial Professorship of Canadian Studies. Matched by Yale funds, this endowed, visiting professorship brings a distinguished visitor from a Canadian university to Yale for one semester or one academic year. The Bicentennial chair moves between departments and professional schools on a competitive basis. Each visiting professor teaches at least one course per term and engages students and faculty. Many also organized lectures and workshops that bring Canadian and other public intellectuals, policy makers and academics to Yale to further engage their specialty areas.
By embedding the “Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Scholar” in a larger community of scholars and students at the MacMillan Center and the host department, we hope to amplify the impact of Yale’s Canadian Studies resources. The nominee must be Canadian and, ideally, be someone who specializes in Canadian Studies or Canada in a comparative or international context. Normally, the scholar joins us for a full academic year and teaches at least one course.
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2022 Spring: Kent McNeil, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
2021-2022: W. Andy Knight, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
2019-2020: Jocelyn Létourneau, Department of History, Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Political History and Economy in Quebec, Université Laval
2018: Frank P. Harvey, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dalhousie University
2016-2017: Thy Phu, Associate Professor, Western University
2015-2016: Richard Albert, Associate Professor, Boston College
2014-2015: Graeme Auld, Associate Professor, Carleton University
2013-2014: Aaron Dhir, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Visiting Professor of Law (The Global Justice Program)
2012-2013: Karolyn Smardz-Frost, Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Sr. Lecturer, History and African American Studies (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition)
2011-2012: Dean Irvine, Department of English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Visiting Professor, English and Comparative Literature
2009-2010: Christian Leuprecht, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada, Visiting Assistant Professor; Political Science, Economics (International Affairs Council)
2008-2009: Nomi Lazar, Collegiate Assistant Professor and harper-Schmidt Fellow, social Science Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science (International Affairs Council)
2007-2008: John Varty, Department of History, Magill University, Lecturer, History (International Affairs Council)
2006-2007: Gerald Baier, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Visiting Asst. Professor, Political Science and International Affairs (International Affairs Council)
2005 Spring: Maxwell Cameron, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Visiting Professor, Political Science (Latin American Studies)
2004-2005: Nicole Neatby, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Visiting Assistant Professor, History
2003 Fall: Gerald Friesen, Department of History, University of Manitoba, Visiting Professor, History
2002 Fall: Robert Barsky, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Visiting Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Film Studies (European Studies)
2002 Fall: Michael Kral, University of Windsor, Anthropology
2001 Fall: Brigitte Shim, Principal, Shim Sutclife Architects, Architecture
2000-2001: Christopher Bracken, University of Alberta, Visiting Assistant Professor, English
2000 Spring: Regna Darnell, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, Visiting Professor, Anthropology
1998 Fall: Christopher Armstrong, Visiting Professor, History
1998 Spring: Abraham Rotstein, University of Toronto, Visiting Professor, Economics and History
1997 Fall: Ramsay Cook, York University, Visiting Professor, History