chris greencorn
@chrisgreencorn.bsky.social
PhD candidate in history at Queen’s University, Kingston, working on Canadian women folk & traditional music collectors
https://www.queensu.ca/history/people/greencorn-chris
https://www.queensu.ca/history/people/greencorn-chris
Excited to be sharing my research at Memorial next week!
Chris Greencorn, MUNFLA's inaugural Herbert and Violetta Halpert Research Fellow, is scheduled to give a presentation on his research next Wednesday. Follow the link to our UPCOMING EVENTS for full details: www.mun.ca/munfla/news-...
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Excited to be sharing my research at Memorial next week!
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Federal and Provincial Own-Source Expenditures in Respect of PSE Institutions, Canada, in billions of $2023, 2007-08 to 2023-24
Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?
Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?
August 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Federal and Provincial Own-Source Expenditures in Respect of PSE Institutions, Canada, in billions of $2023, 2007-08 to 2023-24
Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?
Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?
Recommended if you can make it to either this event in Guelph or the one in Montreal on Thursday - a fantastic contribution to Canadian music history, now available in English (and I produced the index!)
On June 24, Dr. Eric Fillion, director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, will hold a book launch for Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec, 1967-75.
Open to all, the launch takes place 630-830pm at The Bookshelf Cinema
#cdnhist
Open to all, the launch takes place 630-830pm at The Bookshelf Cinema
#cdnhist
June 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Recommended if you can make it to either this event in Guelph or the one in Montreal on Thursday - a fantastic contribution to Canadian music history, now available in English (and I produced the index!)
Reposted by chris greencorn
Last week we published Taryn Goff's analysis of plants in the first five years of Folklore magazine.
But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history!
niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f...
#cdnhist
But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history!
niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f...
#cdnhist
Folklore Magazine: A Rich Primary Source Archive for Prairie History is now Online!
Folklore is an excellent resource for Canadian historians interested in daily life.
niche-canada.org
June 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Last week we published Taryn Goff's analysis of plants in the first five years of Folklore magazine.
But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history!
niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f...
#cdnhist
But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history!
niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f...
#cdnhist
Reposted by chris greencorn
"The cliché of judging people by the standards of their time, by working to exempt people in the past from the critical eye of the present, simultaneously obscures other historical figures who we might appraise more positively, especially knowing the context in which they were making their choices."
Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
contingentmagazine.org
June 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"The cliché of judging people by the standards of their time, by working to exempt people in the past from the critical eye of the present, simultaneously obscures other historical figures who we might appraise more positively, especially knowing the context in which they were making their choices."
Very happy to share that I’ve been awarded the inaugural Herbert & Violetta Halpert Research Fellowship from @munfla-archive.bsky.social, to conduct dissertation research there this fall. Looking forward to a two-week deep dive into their folklore collections! www.mun.ca/munfla/news-...
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The Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) Committee would like to congratulate Chris Greencorn, a doctoral candidate in History at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON), as the inaugu...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Very happy to share that I’ve been awarded the inaugural Herbert & Violetta Halpert Research Fellowship from @munfla-archive.bsky.social, to conduct dissertation research there this fall. Looking forward to a two-week deep dive into their folklore collections! www.mun.ca/munfla/news-...
My article on Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton's collection in African NS communities - including Africville during its relocation - appears in this year's edition of MUSICultures, published this week. Read more (and available soon via Érudit):
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...
“I Doubt If They Were Unusual”: Race and Place in Helen Creighton’s 1967 African Nova Scotian Recording Project
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November 29, 2024 at 10:15 PM
My article on Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton's collection in African NS communities - including Africville during its relocation - appears in this year's edition of MUSICultures, published this week. Read more (and available soon via Érudit):
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...