DR MARGARET CONRAD
 

    Margaret Conrad
    Honorary Research Professor
    Department of History, Tilley 120
    University of New Brunswick
    Fredericton NB E3B 5A3
    Phone: (506) 455-2970; FAX: (506) 453-5068
    E-mail: mconrad@unb.ca

    Biography

    Professor Conrad holds degrees from Acadia (BA Honours History 1967) and the University of Toronto (MA 1968 and PhD 1979). A member of the History Department of Acadia University from 1969 to 2002, Professor Conrad held a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick from 2002 to 2009. She also served as an adjunct Professor of History at Dalhousie (1992 to 2002) and held Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University (1996-1998). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995, received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada (2004). She currently holds the position of Honorary Research Professor at the University of New Brunswick where she continues to explore aspects Humanities Computing with the support of the Electronic Text Centre. She is a co-investigator in a major collaborative research project, Canadians and Their Pasts, designed to explore how Canadians engage the past in their everyday lives, and in The History Education Network, both projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

    Research Interests

    Margaret Conrad has published widely in the fields of Atlantic Canada history and Women's Studies. Her major works include (with James K. Hiller) Atlantic Canada: A Concise History (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006), (with Alvin Finkel) a widely-used Canadian history text, History of the Canadian Peoples (Toronto: Addison Wesley Longman, 1993-2009), (with Toni Laidlaw and Donna Smyth) No Place Like Home: The Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women, 1771-1938 (Halifax: Formac, 1988), and George Nowlan: Maritime Conservative in National Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986). A founding member of Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre, Professor Conrad has edited four books on the New England Planters in the Maritimes. She is also the moving spirit behind the Atlantic Canada Portal, designed to support research on the Atlantic region.

    Professional Activities

    Professor Conrad has been actively involved in a variety of professional associations and has served as a member of the National Archives Board (1987-91), the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (1990-98), and the Minister's Round Table on Parks Canada Secretariat (2001). She was a founding member of the Editorial Board of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, of which she was co-editor from 1977 to 1985, and she served as co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review from 1997 to 2000. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Canada's National History Society, on the Editorial Board of Acadiensis, on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies, and on the Advisory Board of the Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium, convened by His Excellency John Ralston Saul. She was President of the Canadian Historical Association from 2005 to 2007 and chairs the External Committee of Experts on Commemorations for the National Capital Commission.

    Publications

    In addition to the publications listed in Research Interests, Margaret Conrad has supervised the production of five websites for the Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives: