Melissa N. Shaw
PhD (Queen’s University)
Black Canada; Black North America; Race and Ethnicity; Modern Canada; Colonial North America; Black British Imperial Belonging; Intellectual and Social History.
Specialization by time period: 1700 - 1940
Winter 2023:
Wednesday & Friday 10:30 - 11:30 am
“‘Most Anxious to Serve their King and Country’: Black Canadians Fight to Enlist in WWI and Emerging Race Consciousness in Ontario, 1914-1919,” in Histoire sociale/Social History 49, 100, (November 2016): 543-580.
“Dawn of Tomorrow, ‘A Noble Tradition to be Maintained’ in the Historical Memory of Canada,” in Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira eds., Slavery, Memory, Citizenship (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016), 165-190.
Review of Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery, by R.J.M. Blackett, in Journal of African American History 100, 3, (Summer 2015): 529-531
Review of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, by Afua Cooper, in Race and Class 52, 1, (July 2010): 111-113.
“James Francis Jenkins,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, Forthcoming.
“William Peyton Hubbard,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, Forthcoming.