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• MA (Ottawa), PhD (Guelph)
• Email John C. Walsh

Research Interests

• Canadian History and Public History
• Space and place
• Governmentality
• Epistemology
• Maps and mapping

Select Publications

(with ) Home, Work, and Play:  Situating Canadian Social History third edition (Oxford University Press, 2015)

(with ) Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada (UBC Press, 2010)

Recent Public History Projects

Recent Completed Graduate Supervisions

Please note that I welcome expressions of interest for supervision of both traditional and non-traditional modes of historical research and dissemination. 

PHD

Breanna Lester, “Lest We Commemorate: Assembling Canada’s Great War Centenary, 2014-2018.” PhD Dissertation, 2021

Rick Duthie, “‘’: A Public History Theatrical Experiment about Remembered Sudbury Strikes, 1958-2010,” PhD Dissertation, 2021 (co-supervised with David Dean)

Romalie Murphy, “Colonising Space and Producing Territory: John and Elizabeth Simcoe and Water, Power, and Empire in Upper Canada, 1791-1796,” PhD Dissertation, 2018

MA

2025 Elizabeth McNeill, ““Stand-Up Historians”: Interpreter and Visitor Laughter at Living History Museums,” Master’s Research Essay in Public History

2024 Gyn Wylie, “Displaced Heritage:  Place Attachment, the Loss of Land, and the Effects on Community Identity,” Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies (co-supervision with Dr. Susan Ross)

2024 Mathiew King, “Hail to the Merry Macs: Analyzing the Regulation of Women as Wage Earners and Athletes at McKinnon Industries in St. Catharines, Ontario: 1936-1964” Master’s Research Essay (co-supervision with Dr. Erica Fraser) 

2024 Hannah Pinilla, “Los Sabores de Hogar: The Transformation of Memory and Identity through the Food Practices of Colombian Migrants in Montreal,” Master’s Research Essay in Public History  (co-supervision with Dr. Sonya Lipsett Rivera)

2024  Kari Valmestad, “(Re)Building a Prairie Capital: Development, Gentrification, and Settler-City Making in Winnipeg’s Exchange District,” Master’s Research Essay in Public History

2024 Harris Barnard-Davidson, “Nostalgia and Race in Commemorative Photography of the Taylor Statten Summer Camps,” Master’s Research Essay in Public History

2023  Kirstan Schamuhn, “Starting with the Small: Decolonizing Collections Management Policies for Small and Mid-Sized Alberta Museums,” Sample Collections Policy and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with James Opp)

2023  Sam Nicholls, “ ‘Doing the Local’: Public Histories, Curriculum, and Games-Based Learning in Kingston, Ontario,” Major Research Essay in Public History

2022 Chloe Dennis, “Re-Visiting Beechwood Cemetery and Encountering the Past,” Historical virtual tour and Major Research Essay in Public History

2022 Danielle Mahon, “Making Walking Africville: Co-production and Intimacy in Public History,” and Major Research Essay in Public History

2022 Meranda Gallupe-Paton, “Memories of Mechanicsville:  A Personal Public History,” and MRE in Public History, Major Research Essay in Public History

2022 Emmanuelle Masclet, “Grosse Île and the Marine Hospital for Emigrants in Quebec City: Perspectives from Government and Non-Government Institutions during the Typhus Epidemic of 1847,” Major Research Essay in History (co-supervision with Roderick Phillips)

2022 Eliza Hinton, “Margaret Carr’s “Cooking Chat”:  Health, Economy, and Food Writing in Toronto, 1951-1966,” Major Research Essay in History

2021 Fiona Lane, “Appleton for the Teacher: Developing New Educational Programming Materials for the North Lanark Regional Museum,” Education Materials and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History

2021 Jenna Emslie, “Remember Us: Designing a Video Game through a Public History Lens,” Game Design Document and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Shawn Graham)

2020 Stephanie Lett, “Garnet’s Journey: Developing New aids for Teaching the Topic of Residential Schools to Ontario High School Students,” and Major Research Essay in Public History (co-supervision with Michel Hogue)

2020 Marissa Foley, “Reclaiming Jamesville,” and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History

2019 Cassandra Marsillo, “Exhibiting the Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards,” , Website, and M.A. Major Research Essay in Public History