Prof. Laurie Stanley-Blackwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at St. Francis Xavier University. She holds degrees from Mount Allison (B.A), Dalhousie University (MA) and Queen’s University (Ph.D.) She is author of The Well-Watered Garden: The Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton, 1798-1860 and Unclean! Unclean! Leprosy in New Brunswick 1844-1880. Her 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, The New Dictionary of National Biography and the Canadian and World Encyclopedia. Stanley-Blackwell has reviewed for Studies in Religion, Canadian Book Review Annual,Choice and Journal of Southern History and 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 pilotent. 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 19th-century Maritime Canada. In 1995-1996, she was awarded St. Francis Xavier University’s Outstanding Teaching Award

Prof. Stanley-Blackwell currently teaches History 209 (History of the Maritime Provinces), History 300 (A Cultural and Intellectual History of Canada), and History 307 (History of Quebec) [See Academic Calendar]. In 1997-1998, her students in History 300 assisted with the creation of a web site called "A Virtual Tour of the Architectural Heritage of Antigonish, Nova Scotia".

Favourite Web sites:

Canadiana—The Canadian Resource Page: (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/README.html)

International Council of Canadian Studies: (http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/sites/e-other.html)

University of Victoria, History Learning & Teaching: (http://web.UVic.CA/hrd/history.learn-teach/index.html)

Canadian History on the Web: (http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/sneylan/cdnhist.htm)