HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4P9 | +1 (902) 494-2011

Jerry Bannister

Graduate Coordinator

Associate Professor

Office: 3170 McCain Arts & Social Science Building
Office Hours: Fridays: 1:00-3:00
Or by appointment
Email: jerry.bannister@dal.ca
Tel: 902-494-1541 (v)
902-494-3349 (fax)
Jerry Bannister

AREAS OF INTEREST

British North America; the Atlantic region; socio-political history; legal history, particularly crime and criminal law; nationalism and regional identities; naval and maritime history; and twentieth-century world history.

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS 


The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

WINNER, 2004 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

   

William R. Keylor and Jerry Bannister, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History. Canadian Edition.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005.

"Canada as Counter-Revolution: The Loyalist Order Framework in Canadian History, 1750-1840," in Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).

"Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Christopher English, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX – Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2005).
 
"Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, eds., Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
 
"The Politics of Cultural Memory: Themes in the History of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, 1972-2003," in Collected Research Papers of the Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening our Place in Canada (St. John’s: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2003).  Available on-line as a PDF file: www.gov.nf.ca/royalcomm/research/pdf/Bannister.pdf
 
"The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland," in Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, eds., Canadian History Reader, Volume One (Toronto: Pearson Education, 2003). Available on-line as a PDF file:  www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/1994/v5/n1/031071ar.pdf
 
"Whigs and Nationalists: The Legacy of Judge Prowse’s History of Newfoundland," Acadiensis 32, 1 (Autumn 2002).
 
"Making History: Cultural Memory in Twentieth-Century Newfoundland," Newfoundland Studies 18, 2 (Fall 2002). Available on-line as a PDF file:  
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/879/1232
 
"The Fishing Admirals in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," Newfoundland Studies, Special Issue: Peter Pope, ed., "The New Early Newfoundland: The Eighteenth Century," 17, 2 (Fall 2001).  Available on-line as a PDF file:  
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/856/1209
 
"The Naval State in Newfoundland, 1749-1791," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association New Series 11 (2000).   Available on-line as a PDF file:  http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/2000/v11/n1/031130ar.pdf

 

AWARDS

Distinguished Canadian Studies Lecture, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine, 2008

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006-2007 See article

The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 2004

The Clio Award for the Atlantic Region, 2004

ISER Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2003

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Article Prize, 2001

The John Bullen Prize, 2000

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000

 

COURSES OFFERED 2009-2010

HIST 2272 W

ATLANTIC CANADA SINCE CONFEDERATION SYLLABUS
HIST 4250 W POPULAR CULTURE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1650-1850 SYLLABUS 
HIST 8220 ATLANTIC CANADA IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD  SYLLABUS

LINKS

Masters Seminar Blog
   http://historiansgaze.blogspot.com/

Canadian Studies Program
   http://canadianstudiesprogramme.artsandsocialsciences.dal.ca/

Canadian Historical Association
    http://www.cha-shc.ca/

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
     http://www.osgoodesociety.ca/

London Goodenough Association of Canada 
     http://www.lgac.ca/

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
      http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/
          
Atlantic Canada Portal
      http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/

H-Canada
      http://www.h-net.org/~canada/

H-Atlantic
      http://www.h-net.org/~atlantic/

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site
     www.heritage.nf.ca

Sea Education Association
     http://www.sea.edu

Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
      http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma