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STEPHANIE D. BANGARTH, Ph.D
95 Porter Crescent
Cambridge, Ontario N3C 0B7 (519) 651-0805
Citizenship: Canadian
Languages:English; French (excellent reading and writing, good oral ability); Dutch (reading and limited writing)
Education:
2004Ph.D (History), University of Waterloo
Thesis: “The politics of rights: Canadian and American advocacy groups and North America’s citizens of Japanese ancestry, 1942-1949.”
1996 MA (History), University of Waterloo
Thesis: “The long, wet summer of 1942: the Ontario Farm Service Force, small-town Ontario and the Nisei.”
1995Honours BA with Distinction (History/French Literature), King’s University College, The University of Western Ontario.
Teaching Subjects:
Race Relations in Canadian History; Pre- and Post-Confederation Canadian Survey; Canadian Social History; Canadian Social Movements; Women and Cultural Change in Canada; Contemporary Canadian Issues; Wartime Canada; Canadian Political History Since 1840; Black America/Canada; East Asian Diaspora in North America; Immigration History North America; Comparative Can/Am; Canadian Human Rights; Canadian Foreign Policy.
Employment:
July 2009 -Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History, King’s University Present College atWestern University; Director and Faculty Research Associate,
CollaborativeGraduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations (MER),
Western University; Adjunct Professor, Department of History,
Western University.
June 10 -Visiting Professor (invited), Sookmyung International Summer School,
July 5 2009 Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
July 2007 -Assistant Professor, Tenure-track, Department of History, King’s
June 2009UniversityCollege, The University of Western Ontario
July 2006 -Assistant Professor, (Limited Term Contract) Department of History,King’s June 2007 UniversityCollege, The University of Western Ontario
May 2004 -Assistant Professor, (Limited-term Contract) Department of History,
Apr. 2006University of Guelph
Academic Publications:
Monographs
Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry,
1942-49.Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008 (co-published with the University of Washington Press).
My Brother’s Keeper: F. Andrew Brewin and the Making of Modern Canada. In
progress.
Refereed Articles
“’Vocal but not particularly strong’? Air Canada’s Ill-fated Vacation Package to Rhodesia and South Africa and the Anti-apartheid Movement in Canada.” International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (2016): 1-10.
“Bringing China In: the New Democratic Party, China, and Multilateralism.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Canada special edition). Vol. 20, no. 2-3, 2013.
“Migrating Magyars and Canadian Inclusiveness: Responses of the State and Voluntary Organizations to the Hungarian Refugees, 1956-1958.” Eger Journal of American Studies (Canadiana special edition). Vol. 10, Winter 2010: 11-26.
“Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956-1957.” With Andrew Thompson. American Review of Canadian Studies. Vol. 38, no. 3, Autumn 2008.
“Nikkei Loyalty and Resistance in Canada and the United States.” Japan Focus. January 31, 2008 (
“The long, wet summer of 1942: the Ontario Farm Service Force,small-town Ontario and the Nisei.” Canadian Ethnic Studies. Vol. 37, no. 1, 2005.
“Religious organizations and the ‘relocation’ of persons ofJapanese ancestry in North America: evaluating advocacy.” American Review of Canadian Studies. Vol. 34, 3, Fall 2004.
“‘We are not asking you to open wide the gates for Chineseimmigration’: the Committee for the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act and early human rights activism in Canada.” Canadian Historical Review. Vol. 84, 3, September 2003.
“The Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians and the ACLU:Engaging Debate, 1942-1946.” PrincetonUniversity Library Chronicle. Vol. LXIII, 3, Spring 2002.
Book Chapters
“’Ann Nisei’ and ‘Sue Sada’: Negotiating Race, Gender, and Family in the Nikkei Press of Canada and the United States.” Civilian Internment in Canada(Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), forthcoming.
“The Politics of African Intervention: Canada and Biafra, 1967-1970.” From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canadian Diplomacy in Fragile States, 1960 – 2011(University of Calgary Press, 2016).
“Citizen Activism, Refugees, and the State: Two Case-Studies in Canadian Immigration History,” in Catherine Briggs, ed., Canada Since 1945 (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2014): 17-30.
“’Their equality is my equality’: F. Andrew Brewin and Human Rights Activism, 1940s-1970s.” Taking Liberties: Historicizing 20th Century Human Rights in the English Speaking World (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2013): 114-138.
“The Second World War and Canada’s Early Human Rights Movement: The Asian Canadian Experience,” in Janet Miron, ed., A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009).
“William Lyon Mackenzie King and Japanese Canadians,” in John English, Kenneth McLaughlin, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds., Mackenzie King: Citizenship and Community (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio Press, 2002).
Non-Refereed Articles
“A Segunda Guerra Mundial, os nippo-canadenses e a premeira fase do Movimento pelos Direitos Humanos no Canada,” Edições Anteriores. Vol. 16, 22 (2009): 21-40.
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Book Reviews
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold
War (New York: New York University Press, 2013) Labour/Le Travail Vol. 75 (Spring 2015): 299-300.
Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, A
Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013) Pacific Historical Review (February 2015).
Allison Marshall, The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations. Vol. 21, no. 2-3, 2014.
John D. Meehan, Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada’s Early Relations with
China, 1858-1952 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011). H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XIV, no. 38 (2013). [
“A Biography Fit For King”, Allan Levine, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life guided by the Hand of Destiny (Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011) in MANECCS News and Views (March 2012). [
Jane E. Dusselier, Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008) Journal of American Ethnic StudiesVol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 128-129.
Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) in The American Historical Review. Vol. 117, no. 1(February 2012): 189-190.
Ivana Caccia, Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime (Kingston and Montreal: MQUP, 2010) Left History 15.1 (Winter 2010).
Greg Robinson, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009) International History Review33.2 (June 2011).
Patricia E. Roy, The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008) in TheAmerican Historical Review. Vol. 114, 5, December 2009: 1433-1434.
Louis Fiset and Gail Nomura, eds., Nikkei In The Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians In The Twentieth Century (University of Washington Press, 2005) in The American Review of Canadian Studies. Vol. 36, 2, Summer 2006.
Ross Lambertson, Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists 1930-1960 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) in Canadian Historical Review. Vol. 87, 2, June 2006.
Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier, eds., The World in a City (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), published by , October 2004. (
Patricia Wong Hall and Victor Hwang, eds., Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance, published in Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXIII, no. 2, 2001.
Other Publications:
With Jon Weier, “Merchants of Death: Canada’s History of Questionable Exports.” activehistory.ca [ (April 18, 2016).
With Mary Chaktsiris, “If ye break faith, we shall not sleep?” activehistory.ca [ (December 8, 2015).
“Canada’s Complicated History of Refugee Reception,” activehistory.ca [ (September 4, 2015).
“Uniting Classrooms Across the 49th Parallel”, with Andrew Holman in MANECCS News and Views (September 2012).
Interview with Maria and Imre Toth. Oral History Project. Multicultural History Society of Ontario and the Rakoczi Foundation, August 31, 2006.
“Hockey Night in Canada.” FULBRIGHTer News. Vol. XI, 2001.
Graduate Supervision:
2015University Examiner. Guliz Akkaymak, “A Critical Examination of Immigrant Integration: Experiences of Immigrants from Turkey to Canada.” Sociology PhD thesis, Western.
External Examiner. Christian Roy, “Histoire de la communaute japonaise du Quebec, 1942 – 1988.” Doctorate en histoire, Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
Doctoral Committee Examiner. Michelle Hutchinson Grondin, “’More Than Plumbing’: The History of Sexual Education in Ontario, 1960 – 1979.” History PhD thesis, Western.
University Examiner. Kelly Barnes, “"National Identity and Attitudes toward
Immigrants." Psychology/MER PhD thesis, Western.
2014Internal-External Masters Committee examiner. Mingyuan Zhang, “The Reciprocal Influences of the Old Order Mennonite Community and Tourism in St. Jacobs, Ontario.” Anthropology MA thesis, Western.
Internal-External Doctoral Committee examiner. Julianna Beaudoin, “Challenging Essentialized Representations of Romani Identities in Canada.” Anthropology/MER PhD thesis, Western.
Doctoral Dissertation Second Reader. Jonathan Weier. History PhD thesis, Western.
2013Doctoral Minor Field Supervisor – Canadian Social History. Elliot Worsfold. Jan. – May.
Internal-External Doctoral Committee examiner. Matthew Beaudoin, “De-essentializing the Past: Deconstructing Colonial Categories in 19th-Century Ontario.” Anthropology PhD thesis, Western.
Internal-External Masters Committee examiner. Matthew McKarney, “In Defense of a Livelihood: Ontario Growers and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program Debate.” Anthropology/MER MA thesis, Western.
2012 -Doctoral Thesis Supervisor, Shezan Muhammedi, History/MER. ‘Gifts from Amin: the Ugandan Asian Refugee Experience from First Generation Immigrants to First Generation Canadians.’ Major field supervisor: Canadian Immigration History.
Doctoral Thesis Supervisor, Jonathan Malek, History/MER. “From Global to Local: A history of the Winnipeg Filipino Community.” Major field supervisor: Canadian Immigration History.
2012 -Masters Thesis Supervisor, Mark Billing, History/MER, ‘The Patina of Tradition:
2013Deception, Smokescreens, Public Policy, and the Immigration Green Paper.’ Independent Reading Course: Canadian Immigration Policy: Understanding Historical, Scholarly and Practical Approaches.
2012 -Masters Thesis Supervisor, Michael Buttazzoni, History/MER, ‘Italian-Canadian
2013Immigrants, Transnationalism, and Social Capital: The Alpini in Hamilton and Related Oral Histories.’
2012Doctoral Minor Field Supervisor – Modern Canada. Claire Halstead. Jan. – May.
2011 -Doctoral Thesis Supervisor. Nassisse Solomon, History/MER. “Betwixt and Between: Gender, Place and Home in the Construction of Historical Narratives of Migrants From the ‘Land of Burnt Faces’.”Major field supervisor: ‘Race’ and Gender in the Canadian Immigrant Experience.
2011 -Masters Thesis Supervisor. Shezan Muhammedi, History/MER. ‘Gifts from
2012 Amin: Canada and the Ismaili Ugandan Muslims, 1972 – 1990.’
2011Internal-External Doctoral Committee examiner. Caroline Bennett-AbuAyyash, “The Expression of Religious Bias in the Evaluation of Foreign-Trained Job Applicants.” Psychology/MERPhD thesis, UWO.
Second Reader, MA Cognate. Nicholas Pettit, ‘The Inception, Experience and Significance of Canada-Japan Cultural Relations in the 1970s: An Abject Failure of Fleeting Interest?’
Doctoral Minor Field Supervisor – Canadian Social History. Michelle Hutchinson Grondin. Jan. – May.
2010Second Reader, MA Cognate. Devon Boyd, ‘Silence Kills: Gay Rights, AIDS, and the Rise of the Christian Right in Canada, 1977-1990.’
2009 -Doctoral Thesis Supervisor. Christopher Stuart Taylor, History/MER, ‘Flying Fish
2013in the Great White North: The “Culture” of Black Barbadian Migration to 1967.’
Major field supervisor: Canadian Black History.
Courses Taught
King’s UniversityCollege:
HIST 2187: Power to the Peoples: Rights in North America; HIST 2201e: Canada – A Survey From Origins to the Present; HIST 3292e/3218e: Movers and Shakers – Social Movements in Canadian History; HIST 362E/3205E: Canadian Social History; HIST 3285E: Canada in the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1840-2000; HIST 4701e: Topics in Canadian and American History; HIST 4292E: Canadian Immigration History; HIST 4901e: Wartime Canada from the 17th to the 20thCentury (2008-2009), Gender in a North American Historical Perspective (2009-2010), Immigrants and Emigrants in Canadian History (2010-2011).
Western University:
Canadian Immigration History: The Personal, the Politics, and the Policies. MA/PhD graduate course (Fall 2012).
Sookmyung Women’s University:
From Asia to North America: the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Koreans in Canada and the U.S. (June 2009).
University of Guelph:
HIST 2160: Contemporary Canadian Issues; HIST 2930: Women and Cultural Change in Canada; HIST 3160: Canadian Political History Since 1840; HIST 3930: Black America in the 20th Century; Senior Theses (3).
University of Waterloo:
HIST 221: Race Relations in Canadian History
Academic Grants and Awards:
2014-King’s University College Research Grant ($2400)
2015
2013- Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2014 UWO Doctoral Supervisory Internal Grant ($4,000 CDN)
King’s University College Research Grant ($3,500 CDN)
2010-SSHRC standard research grant 1A (Meritorious New Scholars program)
2013($24,000 CDN)
2012- Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2013 UWO Doctoral Supervisory Internal Grant ($4,000 CDN)
King’s University College Research Grant ($3,500 CDN)
2010-UWO Doctoral Supervisory Internal Grant ($2,000 CDN)
2011-Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2009King’s University College Research Grant ($3,500 CDN)
SSHRC research grant 4A ‘recommended but not funded’
Longlisted, International Convention of Asia Scholars Best Book in the Humanities
Longlisted, Canadian Historical Association Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2008King’s University College Research Grant ($3,000 CDN)
Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Research Grant ($3,000 CDN)
2007King’s University College Research Grant ($2,750 CDN)
Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2006Bank of Nova Scotia/UWO Alumni Association/University Students’ Council Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (nomination)
King's University College Research Grant ($2,500 CDN)
Dean’s Honour Roll of Teaching Excellence
2005 SSHRC/University of Guelph Conference Travel Grant($600 CDN)
2003 &Tri-University Doctoral Award for Best Scholarly Paper ($500 CDN each)
1997
2001Canada - U.S. FulbrightFellowship (held jointly at Princeton and Rutgers; $25,000 USD)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaDoctoral Fellowship ($18,000 CDN)
Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Fellow ($3,500 USD)
University of Waterloo Graduate Merit Scholarship ($2,500 CDN)
Participation in Academic Conferences:
2016A Strong Re-enforcement of the American Initiative”: the 1970s, Human Rights and Foreign Policy and Trade (In)Action. Canadian Historical Association. University of Calgary. 29 May – 3 June.
2015ACSUS Biennial Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Oct. 18-21. Discussant.
“’Ann Nisei’ and ‘Sue Sada’: Negotiating Race, Gender, and Family in the Nikkei Press of Canada and the United States.” Civilian Internment in Canada Workshop. University of Manitoba. 17-19 June.
“Is our assistance worthwhile?”: The Role of Tripartisanship in the Canadian Response to Refugee and International Development Crises, 1968-1978. Chair and Discussant on two panels. Canadian Historical Association. Universite d’Ottawa. June 1-3.
2014 “’Vocal but not particularly strong?’: Air Canada’s Ill-fated Vacation Package to Rhodesia and South Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Canada.” Colloque Mobilisations Politiques et Prises de Parole Citoyenne au Quebec et au Canada. Universite de Quebec a Montreal. 2-4 October.
MANECCS Biennial Conference, Niagara Falls, ON. Sept. 25-28. Biennial
organizer and discussant.
Workshop on the History of Humanitarian Aid. Carleton University. 9 July.
[invited]
Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Brock University. May 26 – 28. Panel chair for two panels.
2013 “Cross Border Skyping: Making Joint Teaching Initiatives Work.” Technologies and Pedagogies: Blended Learning Conference. King’s University College. 1 November.
“Identity in Pre-Confederation Atlantic Canada, 1825-1861.” Discussant. ACSUS Biennial Conference, Tampa, FL. Nov. 18-22.
2012“Selling Safaris, Flouting Sanctions: Air Canada’s Ill-fated Vacation Package to Rhodesia and South Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Canada.” MANECCS, Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 27-30. Also served as panel chair for two sessions.
“Canadians and Biafra: Bearing Witness to Genocide, 1968-1970.” The Holocaust and Genocide in Art and Film, 32nd Annual Conference on the Holocaust & Genocide, Millersville University, Millersville, PA. 18-20 April.
Panel commentator for “Taking Liberties: Historicizing 20th Century Human Rights in the English Speaking World” workshop at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. Mar. 1-2. [invited]
“The Politics of African Intervention: Canada and Biafra, 1967-1970.” From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canadian Diplomacy in Fragile States, 1960 – 2011. Workshop at Grant McEwan University, Edmonton, AB. Feb. 2. [invited]
2011“The New Internationalist: F. Andrew Brewin and the Placing of Canada in the World, 1960-1979.” ACSUS Biennial Conference. Ottawa, ON. Nov. 16-20.
“The New Internationalist: F. Andrew Brewin and the Placing of Canada in the World, 1960-1979.” Transformation: State, Nation, andCitizenship in a New Environment. YorkUniversity, Toronto, ON. Oct. 13-15.
“Bringing China In: F. Andrew Brewin, China, and Multilateralism.” Canada-China Relations: Past, Present and Future. University of Regina, Regina, SK. Oct. 7-8. [invited]
“Citizen Activism, Immigrants, Refugees, and the State: Two Case-Studies in Canadian History.” CARFMS Conference. McGillUniversity, Montreal, QC. May 11-13.
“The Politician as Social Activist: F. Andrew Brewin in Action.” People and Politics: Interactions Between Citizens and the CanadianState. Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, NB. Mar. 3-5.
2010 “Pinochet and the Politicians: Three Canadian MPs in South America.” MANECCS, Providence, RI. Sept. 30 – Oct. 3. Also served as chair/discussant.
2009 “The Politics of African Aid: Canada and Biafra, 1967-1970” and “Cross-Border Senior Seminar: Making Joint Teaching Initiatives Work” with Dr. Andrew Holman. ACSUS Biennial Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov. 18-21.
2008“Ann Nisei Says: Negotiating Race, Gender and Family in the Incarceration Camps of Canada and the United States.” Canadian Asian Studies Association conference, University of Waterloo, Nov. 13-16. Also served as panel chair.
“Migrating Magyars and Canadian Inclusiveness: Responses of the State and Voluntary Organizations to the Hungarian Refugees, 1956-1958.” Canada as Refuge? Canadian Studies conference, University of Edinburgh, UK. May 1-2.
2007“Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956-1957.” ACSUS Biennial Conference, Toronto, ON. Nov. 14-18. Also served as a Panel Chair and History Section Chair.
2006“James W. St.G. Walker and the Writing of Canadian History.” Round Table participant. Canadian Historical Association, YorkUniversity. May 29-31.
2005“Fighting Oppression Abroad, Guarding Against Injustice At Home: Canadian Minorities and the ‘Early’ Human Rights Movement, 1945-1949.” ACSUS Biennial Conference, St. Louis, MI. Nov. 16-21.Also served as a Panel Chair.
“Protesting the deportation of Japanese Canadians, 1945-1949: Canada’s first human rights campaign.” Association for Canadian Studies in The Netherlands Conference, Middelburg, NL. June 2-4.