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Prof. Laurie
Stanley-Blackwell
Department of
History,
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Prof. Laurie
Stanley-Blackwell is a Full Professor in the Department of History at St. Francis Xavier University. She holds
degrees from Mount Allison University
(B.A.), Dalhousie University (M.A.) and Queen’s University (Ph.D.) Publications & Research
Professor
Stanley-Blackwell is author of The Well-Watered Garden: The Presbyterian
Church in Cape Breton, 1798-1860 and Unclean! Unclean! Leprosy in New
Brunswick 1844-1880, and primary author of Historic
Antigonish: Town and County. Her most recent book is Tokens of
Grace: Cape Breton's Open-Air Communion Tradition . Stanley-Blackwell's
articles appear in such journals as Acadiensis, Nova
Scotia Historical Society Collections and British Deaf History Journal, as
well as such reference works as The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography and The Canadian
Encyclopedia. Stanley-Blackwell is co-author of Canadian Studies: A Guide to
the Sources and has reviewed for Canadian Historical Review, Studies
in Religion, Canadian Book
Review Annual, Choice and Journal of Southern History.
She has also contributed to the following anthologies: Changing Roles of
Women within the Christian Church in Canada, The
Contribution of Presbyterianism to the Maritime Provinces of Canada, St.
George’s Cathedral: Two Hundred Years of Community and Les abeilles
pillotent. Professor Stanley-Blackwell’s specialties are the history of
Maritime Canada, as well as Canadian cultural and religious history. Her
current research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada focuses on the history of deaf culture in
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Courses
Prof.
Stanley-Blackwell teaches History 207 (History of Quebec), History 209
(History of the Maritime Provinces), History 300 (A Cultural and Intellectual
History of Canada),and History 400 (Seminar in Canadian History) [See Academic Calendar]. Her students
in History 300 have assisted with the creation of two web sites: "A Virtual Tour of the
Architectural Heritage of Antigonish, Nova Scotia" and "From Querns to Quilts: A
Select View of the Material Culture of Antigonish, Nova Scotia". Two
other web sites,"Window onto the Past: 19th-century Antigonish" and
"Stony Silences:
Headstones of Antigonish", are currently under construction. In
1995, Stanley-Blackwell was awarded St.
Francis Xavier University’s Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2004, she was
nominated by StFX for the Association of Atlantic Universities' Distinguished
Teaching Award. Favourite Canadian History Web
sites
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