Dr. John Reid

Profile

Email: john.reid@smu.ca

John Reid has been a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University since 1985, and Professor Emeritus since 2019.  He is concurrently Senior Research Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute.  Before coming to Saint Mary’s, he held positions at three New Brunswick universities, including eight years at Mount Allison.  His research has focused primarily on northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, notably on imperial-Indigenous relations, while more recently he has turned his attention to sport history and particularly to the history of cricket in Nova Scotia.  He is a former co-editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, and is also a founding co-editor of the University of Toronto Press monograph series, Studies in Atlantic Canada History.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected in 2004), and has also served as President of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.