Positions
Education
Languages spoken
- French
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- History
Graduate Studies
- History, MA
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
Guidelines or Expectations for Prospective Students
I'm accepting students interested in working in Canadian international history, Canadian political history, Canadian or international resource development, Canada-Quebec-France relations, or similar subjects.
Supervised Theses / Projects
- “‘Our company will not willingly acquiesce’: The Failure of the Militia Bill of 1862 and Canada’s Uncertain Place in the World,” MA Major Research Project by Kolby Fleury. Defended October 27, 2025.
- “Local Problems, Local Solutions: Class Cooperation in the Porcupine, 1909-1924,” MA Major Research Project by Jacob Schulman. Defended September 24, 2021.
- “ ‘The Member for Greater Britain’: Reconstructing Sir Gilbert Parker’s Imperial World, ca 1888-1912,” MA Major Research Project by Trevor Parsons. Defended August 15, 2018.
Research
Research Interests
Canada's relations with France and French-speaking countries; Canada-Quebec relations vis-a-vis foreign affairs; the international activities of Canadian resource companies
Current Research Projects / Labs
- I'm in the early stages of a project examining how Canadian companies, particularly mining companies, operated in countries with military or authoritarian governments in the second half of the 20th century.
- I'm also working on a project to determine the effects (political, economic, environmental, social, etc.) of mining and the mining and metals industries on Ontario since 1945.
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
INCO in Paradise: The International Nickel Company of Canada in New Caledonia, 1960-1988, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026, 282 pp. Aluminum Ore: the Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry, by Robin S. Gendron, Mats Ingulstad, and Espen Storli eds., University of British Columbia Press, 2013, 386 pp. Towards a Francophone Community: Canada’s Relations with France and French Africa, 1945-1968, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006, 200 pp.
“The Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign Relations,” with David Tabachnick, in Michael Hawes, Andrew Holman, and Christopher Kirkey eds., 1968 in Canada: A Year and its Legacies. The University of Ottawa Press, 2021. “In the National Interest: regulating New Caledonia’s nickel industry in the late 20th century,” in Pål Sandvik, Espen Storli, and Andreas Saunders eds., The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: an International and Comparative History, 1850-2015. University of British Columbia Press, 2019. “Regulating Natural Resources in Canada: a brief historical survey,” (with Andreas Saunders) in Pål Sandvik, Espen Storli, and Andreas Saunders eds., The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: an International and Comparative History, 1850-2015. University of British Columbia Press, 2019. “Education and the Origins of Quebec’s International Engagement,” American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 46, no. 2 (2016), pp. 217-232.
Le Canada au coeur de Paris: The Embassy of Canada in France, by Robin S. Gendron and Greg Donaghy, Canadian Museum of History and Global Affairs Canada, 2018.