Claude Couture

Claude Couture is Professor of Social Sciences and Canadian Studies, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, since 1988. He was director of the Canadian Studies Institute of the University of Alberta from 2000 to 2010. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a Fulbright Professor at the Jackson School of the University of Washington in Seattle. He received the Rutherford Award for excellence in teaching from the University of Alberta in 2006, a Killam Professorship in 2007-2008,^[1] and the CAFA Distinguished Academic Award in 2008.^[2] He was awarded the University Cup of the University of Alberta in 2009^[1] and was Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Canadian Studies from 2006 to 2014.^[3][4] Later in 2014, he was awarded the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.^[5]

His research interests are in the area of intellectual and social history. He is the author or co-author of fifteen books including:

• Britannicité. Présence française dans l'Empire britannique au long XIXe siècle, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2020 (with Srilata Ravi);
• Sports, modernité, et réseaux impériaux. Nap Lajoie, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhi, baseball et cricket au tournant du XXe siècle, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2017 (with Srilata Ravi);
• Imaginaires collectifs, interculturalisme et histoire : autour de l’oeuvre de Gérard Bouchard, Québec, PUL, 2014, (with Srilata Ravi);
• Vingt ans après Charlottetown. L'ordre libéral colonial au Canada, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013;
• La nation et son double. Essais sur les discours postcoloniaux au Canada, Québec, PUL, 2012;
• Tisser des liens entre Canadiens, Québec, PUL, 2011;
• Récits du XIXème du siècle. Structure et contenu du discours historiographique au Canada au XIXe siècle, Québec, PUL, 2009;
• Discours d'Étienne Parent, Montréal, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2000;
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent and Canadian Liberalism, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1998;
• Espace et différences. Histoire du Canada, Québec, PUL, 1996.

He has also published extensively in academic journals and chapters in edited books.

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