Jennifer Reid

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Jennifer Reid
OccupationHistorian
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2015)
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia  (1994)
Doctoral advisorRobert Choquette
Institutions University of Maine at Farmington

Jennifer Reid is a Canadian-American historian whose research focuses on the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), and Finding Kluskap (2013). She was a professor at University of Maine at Farmington.

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Biography

Jennifer Reid was born to parents of differing religious backgrounds – English-speaking Protestant William and French-speaking Catholic Irene [1] [2] – and raised in Arnprior, a suburb within the Ottawa–Gatineau region. [3] She obtained her BA (1990) at University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), as well as her MA (1992) and PhD (1994) at the University of Ottawa; [4] her doctoral dissertation No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia was supervised by Robert Choquette. [1] She joined the faculty of the University of Maine at Farmington in the mid-1990s, eventually becoming professor there. [5] She worked for the Niwano Peace Foundation as a researcher in 2015. [6]

Reid, who became interested in First Nations culture after befriending several Mi'kmaq students during her time at UCCB, [2] specializes in the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies. [7] She is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Worse Than Beasts (2005), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance (2011), Finding Kluskap (2013), and Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (2014). [4] She introduced a 2003 special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion , Religion and the Imagination of Matter. [8] She has also written op-eds for the Ottawa Citizen : one in 2008 on Louis Riel's complex identity and folk hero legacy; [9] and another in 2009 criticizing Canada's rationale for not signing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples due to racial inequality concerning First Nations people. [10] She also received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Humanities Council. [6]

As a student of religion historian Charles H. Long, Reid is academically associated with the Chicago school, [7] and she has engaged in academic work related to him. She edited Religion and Global Culture, a 2003 volume which focuses on Long's field of the relationship between religion and globalization, [11] and she wrote the forward of Ellipsis..., a 2018 edited volume republishing some of Long's work. [12]

In 2015, Reid was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion; [7] as part of the Fellowship, it was announced that she would to travel around North America and Australia to engage socially with activists and Indigenous lawyers concerning land rights. [5] [6]

Reid is a Canadian and American dual citizen. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Reid, Jennifer (1994). No man's land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th century Acadia (Thesis). University of Ottawa.
  2. 1 2 Reid, Jennifer. "Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada AUTHOR INTERVIEW". University of Manitoba Press (Interview). Retrieved December 26, 2024.
  3. ↑ Johnston, Douglas J. (December 28, 2008). "U.S. religion professor offers fresh take on Riel-politik". Winnipeg Free Press. p. D. Retrieved December 29, 2024– via ProQuest.
  4. 1 2 "Department of Philosophy and Religion - Directory by Academic Department". University of Maine at Farmington. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Schroeder, Kaitlin (April 22, 2015). "Professor wins fellowship to probe land rights cases". Portland Press Herald. pp. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. 1 2 3 "UMF professor named Guggenheim fellow". Sun-Journal. April 24, 2015. pp. B3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. 1 2 3 "Jennifer Reid". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  8. ↑ Reid, Jennifer I. M. (2003). "Introduction: The Stuff of Creation". Journal for the Study of Religion. 16 (2): 5–8. ISSN   1011-7601. JSTOR   24764306.
  9. ↑ Reid, Jennifer (November 22, 2008). "A perfectly incompatible country". The Ottawa Citizen. p. B7 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Reid, Jennifer (May 16, 2009). "Canada is increasingly alone on aboriginal rights". The Ottawa Citizen. pp. B7 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. 1 2 "Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long". Rowman & Littlefield. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  12. ↑ "The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  13. ↑ Reid, Jennifer. "Jennifer Reid - Curriculum Vitae". Academia.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
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  16. ↑ Martijn, Charles A. (1997). "Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700–1867". The Canadian Historical Review. 78 (1): 165–167. ISSN   1710-1093.
  17. ↑ Robb, Jim (September 8, 1996). "Trio of books offers insightful view of Canada's people and their history". The Ottawa Citizen. p. C11 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "Worse Than Beasts: An Anatomy of Melancholy and the Literature of Travel in 17th and 18th Century England". The Davies Group, Publishers. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
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  21. ↑ LaDow, Beth (2010). "Review". Western Historical Quarterly. 41 (2): 250. doi:10.2307/westhistquar.41.2.0250. ISSN   0043-3810. JSTOR   westhistquar.41.2.0250.
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  24. ↑ Hornborg, Anne-Christine (2014). "Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth". Anthropos. 109 (2): 736–737. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2014-2-736. ISSN   0257-9774. JSTOR   43861862.
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