The Haldimand Proclamation

Elizabeth Elbourne

McGill University

I am an associate professor of history in the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill. Books include Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in the Eastern Cape and Britain, 1799-1853 and Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne (eds.), Sex, Power and Slavery. My current book project is looking at family, colonialism and relationships between settlers, states and Indigenous peoples in the British white settler empire from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth centuries through a study of three overlapping family networks. I am also broadly interested in gender and religion and in the workings of historical memory, including the memory and contemporary legacies of colonialism. Past work has included a five year stint as Joint Editor in Chief (with Brian Cowan) of the Journal of British Studies.

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening Indigenous spirituality matters to Indigenous peoples. In this discussion, I am broadly interested in how Indigenous spirituality is used in contemporary Indigenous politics. More specifically, I ask the question: How should we understand Indigenous spirituality in English? My discussion involves […]