Cecilia Morgan

PhD (University of Toronto)
Professor

 E-mail: cecilia.morgan@utoronto.ca
 Tel: 416 978 1209

Research Interests   
 
As a social and cultural historian of education in Canada, my research interests are in the areas of gender, colonialism, and imperialism; the writing of Canadian history at a  popular level in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ontario; and the  links between gender, middle-class formation, and national identities.

I have published a study of English-Canadians as overseas tourists  that explores a number of these themes: ‘A Happy Holiday’: English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 (University of Toronto Press, 2008). This book explores the links between overseas tourism, gender, national identities, imperialism, and modernity.

With my co-author, Dr. Colin Coates (University of Edinburgh), I published a study, Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord (University of Toronto Press, 2002). This book examines the gendered formation of historical memory innineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Ontario. It compares and contrasts the images of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (University of Toronto Press, 2002).

I am working on a number of related projects, including a study of commemoration and memory in 19th- and 20th-century Ontario, entitled Colonialism and Commemoration.

My new research project examines the travels of 19th–century Native and ‘country-born’/Metis people – performers, lecturers, missionaries, political petitioners, and students – from British North America and Canada to Britain, Europe, and the United States. This project explores the themes of gender, theatre and performance, and colonial relations in the 19th – century transatlantic world.

My previous publications include work on the gendered nature of colonial religious and political discourses in Ontario, 1790s – 1850s; women and legal education in Ontario;gender and the state in British North America; and gender, imperialism, and  performance in late-Victorian and Edwardian England.

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