The Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture Welcomes First Visiting Research Fellow

The Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture welcomes Dr. Steven High as its first Visiting Research Fellow. Dr. High is the Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia University, and is co-director (and founder) of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling - Canada's premiere oral history research centre. He is also the lead investigator in a $1.2M SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) which examines the life stories of displaced Montrealers.

Dr. High has published in a wide range of academic journals including History Workshop Journal, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, Labour/le Travail, Acadiensis, and Histoire sociale. He has edited special issues of a number of journals including Histoire Sociale, Urban History Review, and the Journal of Canadian Studies (forthcoming). His first book Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press, 2003) won a number of national and international awards, including the Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book in Canada-U.S. Relations, the Porter Prize from the Canadian Association of Sociology and Anthropology
for best book on Canadian Society, and the Klibansky Prize from the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences for the best book published in the humanities in Canada.

Dr. High's current book project is on the forestry crisis in Canada, as heard in the oral narratives of displaced workers in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. The book project builds on two of his earlier books: Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (Cornell University Press, 2007).

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