Christopher P. Dummitt
Assistant Professor
BA (Trent), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Simon Fraser)
Champlain College J14
748 1011 x 7224
cdummitt@trentu.ca
Everyday History Website and Blog
christopherdummitt.blogspot.ca
Research interests:
Canadian culture and politics, especially, though not exclusively,
Canada since 1945.
Select publications:
The Exorcism of Mackenzie King: The Embarrassing Private Life of a Prime Minister and the Belated Making of a Nation (book in progress).
"The Importance of Not Being Earnest: Postwar Canadians Rethink Mackenzie King's Christian Manhood" in Christopher Greig and Wayne Martino eds, Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Canadian Scholars' Press/Women's Press, forthcoming).
"Harry, Ferns, Bernard Ostry and The Age of Mackenzie King: Liberal Orthodoxy and its Discontents in the 1950s," Labour'/Le Travail 66 (Autumn 2010): 107-139.
With Michael Dawson eds, Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas Press and the Brookings Institution, 2008).
The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press,2007).
