Faculty

Email Address

ehabkirk@uwo.ca

Education

  • B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University
  • M.A., Trent University
  • Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Evan Habkirk

Sessional Lecturer

Biography

Research Interests: Indigenous military and militarism, cross-cultural history and education, the First World War, Canada’s residential school policy. Publications include: “A Model for Open Community Engagement: Six Nations, the GWCA, and the Production of Wartime Narratives.” Histories of Anthropology Annual 12 (2018); “From Indian Boys to Canadian Men? The Use of Cadet Drill in the Canadian Indian Residential School System” British Journal of Canadian Studies 30, 2 (2017); “Canada’s First Nations and the Anglo-Boer War” in Empire from the Margins (McMaster Divinity College, 2017). Co-editor of The Art of Communication: The Unveiling of the Bell Memorial Revisited (Bell Homestead National Historic Site, 2017) and the Great War Centenary Association Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations website (www.doingourbit.ca).