MISC Lunch and Learn Lecture: “Reconnaissance: A New Methodology for Left History” - Ian McKay

Ian McKay is Professor, Department of History, Queen’s University, and 2008-2009 Eakin Visiting Fellow in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Professor McKay has taught Canadian History at Queen's since 1988. His research interests lie in Canadian cultural history, in the economic and social history of the Atlantic Region of Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the history of Canada as a liberal order. For a Working-class Culture in Canada: A Selection of Colin McKay’s Writing on Sociology and Political Economy, 1897-1939 (St. John’s, 1996) and The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (Kingston & Montreal, 1994) are two recent publications. He is presently working on books about memory and the public past, the history of Canadian socialism, and the life and times of Maurice Spector, Canada’s pre-eminent Marxist thinker of the 1920s and 1930s.