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Department of History

Will Langford

Assistant Professor

Langford square 1 2023
Department of History

Email: w.langford@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2011
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address: 
Room 1158, Marion McCain Building 6135 University Ave. PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Canadian History
  • Political Activism and Social Movements
  • Development and Environmental History

Education

  • B.A., University of British Columbia, 2009.
  • M.A., University of British Columbia, 2011.
  • Ph.D., Queen's University, 2017.

Professional Employment

  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, ±«Óătv University, 2017-2019.
  • Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2019-2021.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History and College of Sustainability, ±«Óătv University, 2021-

Research Interests

A historian specializing in twentieth-century Canada, Will Langford is interested in political activism, social movements, environmental change, and transnational connections. His first book is a history of development programs that approached the problem of ending poverty through empowering poor people and trying to create a more meaningful democracy. He is currently working on a history of right-wing political movements in late twentieth-century Canada.

Selected Publications

(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). *Honourable Mention, 2020 Wilson Book Prize, L.R. Wilson Institute of Canadian History

“,” Canadian Historical Review 104, no. 2 (2023): 198-226.

“,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 15, no. 2 (2021): 317-338.

“‘Will Freedom Survive?’: Reconstruction, Self-Disciplined Democracy, and the Stirring of a New Right in Canada, 1943-1954,” in , eds. Julien Mauduit and Jennifer Tunnicliffe (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 264-296.

“International Development and the State in Question: Liberal Internationalism, the New Left, and Canadian University Service Overseas in Tanzania, 1963-1977,” in , eds. Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), 184-205.

“,” Acadiensis 46, no. 1 (2017): 24-48.

“,” Canadian Historical Review 97, no. 3 (2016): 346-376.

“,” American Indian Quarterly 40, no. 1 (2016): 1-37.

“,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine 41, no. 2 (2013): 30-41.

“,” BC Studies 173 (2012): 11-39.

Popular Writing

With Catherine Carstairs, “,” University Affairs, 3 January 2023.

“,” Histoire engagĂ©e, 22 novembre 2022.

“,” Active History, 25 October 2022.

“,” Active History, 20 October 2022.

“,” Active History, 18 October 2022.

“,” Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian, 1 February 2021.

“,” Active History, 5 May 2020.

“,” Active History, 28 April 2020.

“,” Active History, 21 April 2020.

Reports

With Catherine Carstairs, Sam Hossack, Tina Loo, Christine O’Bonsawin, Martin Paquet, John Walsh, , 6 October 2022.

Fall 2024 Office HoursÌę

  • Fridays, 1:00-3:00Ìę
  • On-line or by appointment

Teaching 2024-2025

  • HIST 2920W Environmental History
  • HIST 3282F Public History
  • SUST 1000F What is Sustainability?
  • SUST 1400W Exploring Sustainability

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