Jeff McNairn
@jlmcnairn.bsky.social
Canadian Historian dividing his time between Toronto, Kingston, and Ottawa and between good food, dry gin, and amazing friends.
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Canadian University salary data is out: Queen's has now passed Toronto in having the highest average professorial salary - $198,875.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Canadian University salary data is out: Queen's has now passed Toronto in having the highest average professorial salary - $198,875.
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Canadian professors by selected age ranges, 1971-2021
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Canadian professors by selected age ranges, 1971-2021
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Dear law and society scholars! Come join us at the Canadian Law and Society Association annual conference next June at Acadia University in beautiful Wolfville, NS! Please share.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dear law and society scholars! Come join us at the Canadian Law and Society Association annual conference next June at Acadia University in beautiful Wolfville, NS! Please share.
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This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
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This is the start of round 2 of program cuts. A number of colleges tried to hold off these closures for a year, hoping the feds might change their mind about the visa programs. Now, the hope is gone.
George Brown’s renowned chef school halting one-third of its programs #StarExclusive
George Brown’s renowned chef school halting one-third of its programs
Enrolment is being halted in seven of 21 programs in culinary arts and hospitality as colleges face grim financial news.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is the start of round 2 of program cuts. A number of colleges tried to hold off these closures for a year, hoping the feds might change their mind about the visa programs. Now, the hope is gone.
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Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Out today (in USA)
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Out today (in USA)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Professor – History of Canada/Québec, 1840-1929. Deadline: January 16, 2026. #cdnhist #UQAM #quebec cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Professor – History of Canada/Québec, 1840-1929. Deadline: January 16, 2026. #cdnhist #UQAM #quebec cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Beyond thrilled for this rave review from @johnibbitson.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com for our book, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Now available @ubcpress.bsky.social and fine bookstores.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs
The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War
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November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Beyond thrilled for this rave review from @johnibbitson.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com for our book, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Now available @ubcpress.bsky.social and fine bookstores.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Special forum on the 25th anniversary of Richard Bensel's Political Economy of American Industrialization, coming soon in Reviews of American History, w/contributions from me, Rosanne Currarino, Noam Maggor, Nicolas Barreyre, and Emma Teitelman, and a response from Bensel.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Special forum on the 25th anniversary of Richard Bensel's Political Economy of American Industrialization, coming soon in Reviews of American History, w/contributions from me, Rosanne Currarino, Noam Maggor, Nicolas Barreyre, and Emma Teitelman, and a response from Bensel.
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CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
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Tariffs - a revenue-raising tool? A foreign policy tool? (Industrial policy, commercial policy, party pols?)
I've listened to the IEEPA tariffs case oral arguments
I'm forming historical thoughts about the duck-rabbit nature of tariffs. It's a warren (or a flock?) of duck rabbits
Thread to come
I've listened to the IEEPA tariffs case oral arguments
I'm forming historical thoughts about the duck-rabbit nature of tariffs. It's a warren (or a flock?) of duck rabbits
Thread to come
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I know no media is covering the Canada Student Grant cuts, but it's real and it's going to cost several hundred thousand students about $1200 this year. Here's the explainer.
The Canada Student Grant Cut | HESA
Somewhat remarkably, no media have picked up the story that the Canada Student Grants were slashed in last week’s budget. Possibly, this is because the government did not issue a press release saying ...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I know no media is covering the Canada Student Grant cuts, but it's real and it's going to cost several hundred thousand students about $1200 this year. Here's the explainer.
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The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
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The McCord Stewart Museum this past weekend.
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The McCord Stewart Museum this past weekend.
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Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
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The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
Great to see this out in the September issue of the _Canadian Historical Review_. As a @queenshistory.bsky.social colleague said to me recently, there's not much you can't explain with taxes. @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Great to see this out in the September issue of the _Canadian Historical Review_. As a @queenshistory.bsky.social colleague said to me recently, there's not much you can't explain with taxes. @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
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I wrote a blog post on my recent @historicaljnl.bsky.social article. The concept of an imperial public sphere can help to explain the imperial crisis, but does it have utility beyond the 18C.? Can it increase our understanding of the Commonwealth and decolonization?
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking exa...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I wrote a blog post on my recent @historicaljnl.bsky.social article. The concept of an imperial public sphere can help to explain the imperial crisis, but does it have utility beyond the 18C.? Can it increase our understanding of the Commonwealth and decolonization?
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)
Education at a Glance 2025, Part 1 | HESA
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual stat fest, Education at a Glance (EAG), two weeks … Continued
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September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)
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My third peer-reviewed article is now out with the journal Ethnohistory! It is about Powhatan sovereignty in the early 17th century. My thanks go to a number of friends and colleagues who provided feedback on this article over the past three years. It wouldn’t be possible without so much support!
September 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My third peer-reviewed article is now out with the journal Ethnohistory! It is about Powhatan sovereignty in the early 17th century. My thanks go to a number of friends and colleagues who provided feedback on this article over the past three years. It wouldn’t be possible without so much support!