Robert C.H. Sweeny
Professor
Department of History
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Email: rsweeny@mun.ca
Room: HH1007
Phone: (709)864-8440
Apprenticeship in history
- B.A. (Honours) Sir George Williams, with John Laffey, Martin Singer & George Rudé
- assitant de recherche au Groupe de recherche sur la société montréalise au 19ième siècle, UQAM
- M.A. UQAM, with Alfred Dubuc
- researcher at the Montreal Business History Project, McGill
- Ph.D. McGill, with Louise Dechêne & Richard Rice
- SSHRC Post-doctoral fellowship at Edinburgh, with R.J. Morris.
Research Interests
- Canada/Québec, Industrialisation, Theory and Method, History of capitalism.
- Co-director of the historical GIS project Montréal, l'avenir du passé (MAP)
Activities this spring and summer
- Spring semester tutorial version of Historical methods
- Research trip to Montréal April 30 to May 19
- Final edits to Why Did We Choose to Industrialise?
- Completing the 1903 mapping of property ownership in Montréal
- Vacation in India, July 14 to August 11
Upcoming presentations
- Canadian Geographers Association, August 2013
- Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, Octobre 2013
- World Social Science Forum, October 2013
- Social Science History Association, November 2013
Courses this fall
- History 1013 Inequality in Canada
- History 2200 Making Canada
