Publications

L'ouvrage La relation Québec-États-Unis: dynamiques politiques, sécuritaires, économiques, environnementales et culturelles, codirigé par Frédérick Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal), Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Stéphane Paquin (École nationale d’administration publique), vient de paraître aux Presses de l'Université Laval. En 17 chapitres, il propose une réflexion sur les dynamiques politiques, sécuritaires, économiques, environnementales et culturelles de la relation Québec–États-Unis.

Au cœur des relations internationales du Québec, le lien avec les États-Unis occupe une place centrale. Ce livre collectif propose une analyse approfondie des multiples dimensions de cette relation: échanges politiques, enjeux frontaliers, commerce, investissements, transport, immigration, identité culturelle, énergie, ressources naturelles et environnement.

En tant qu’État fédéré actif sur la scène internationale, le Québec mène depuis des décennies des initiatives bilatérales et multilatérales qui le mettent en contact direct avec la première puissance mondiale. Pourquoi, comment et dans quelles circonstances le Québec s’engage-t-il avec les États-Unis ? Quelles sont les logiques profondes qui structurent cette relation complexe et évolutive ?

Multidisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions de chercheuses et chercheurs de premier plan qui proposent une réflexion originale sur les dynamiques politiques, sécuritaires, économiques, environnementales et culturelles de la relation Québec–États-Unis. En s’appuyant sur des enjeux contemporains, chaque chapitre met en lumière le contexte, la portée et les conséquences des décisions politiques qui ont façonné — et continuent de façonner — ce lien stratégique.

Un livre essentiel pour comprendre une des relations internationales les plus déterminantes du Québec.

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Edited by Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Frédérick Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal), and Stéphane Paquin (École nationale d’administration publique), The Québec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural Dynamics is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Québec’s engagement with the United States is the most significant and consequential point of interaction amongst all its international activities. This edited book volume seeks to explore the many ways in which Québec engages with the United States, including political exchange, border issues, trade, business and investment, transportation, immigration, cultural links and identity, the role of energy transmission and natural resources, and environmental considerations. As a sub-national actor pursuing a wide range of paradiplomatic bilateral and multilateral initiatives directly involving the U.S., this book both explores and explains what, when, why and how Québec has chosen to engage the United States while examining the fundamental issues that lie at the heart of the relationship. Multidisciplinary and international in focus, this edited collection of essays features the work of scholars who think deeply about Québec-U.S. relations. Each contribution considers contemporary policy relevant issues; in so doing, this collection examines and emphasizes the background, scope, and impacts of policy decisions.

Contributing chapter authors include: Frédérick Gagnon, Christopher Kirkey, and Stéphane Paquin; Stéphane Paquin, and Christopher Kirkey; Frédérick Gagnon, and Christophe Cloutier-Roy; Scott Piroth; Jean-François Godbout, and Éric Belanger; Stéphane Paquin, and Alexandre Millette; Patrick McSweeney, and Richard Ouellet; Élisabeth Vallet, and Mathilde Bourgeon; Neal Carter; Christophe Cloutier-Roy; Annie Chaloux, and Jennyfer Boudreau; Pierre-Olivier Pineau; Kenneth Holland, and Julie Holland; Alexandre Couture Gagnon; Louis Patrick Leroux; Alexandre Turgeon; and, Yvan Lamonde.

For more information, please consult: The Quebec-United States Relationship, Palgrave Macmillan

Edited by Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Cheryl Gosselin (Bishop’s University) and Andrew C. Holman (Bridgewater State University), Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, Rethinking Canada in the World series.

Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. This book volume examines how the Eastern Townships take centre stage as the reader encounters the vibrancy of a place marked not by its insularity but by its long history: a central meeting ground shaped by its many engagements with the world. The book provides new perspectives on compelling and significant topics in Townships history and culture, including Indigenous land use, the mobility of peoples to and from the region, linguistic diversity, economic production, education, sport, religion, and culture in myriad forms. These studies recast the Eastern Townships as a centre, a borderland, a lieu de passage between nations, communities, and peoples.

Contributing authors include: Darren Bardati; Gordon S. Barker and Christopher Kirkey; Caroline Beaudoin; Harold Bérubé and Henri Dion; Philippe Charland; Anthony Di Mascio; Claude Gélinas, Lorraine Derocher, and Camille Sasseville; Cheryl Gosselin; Louis-Georges Harvey; Andrew C. Holman; Jane Jenson; J.I. Little; Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen; J. Debbie Mann; Jean L. Manore; and, Ceri Morgan.

For more information, please consult: Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World, McGill-Queen’s University Press

Edited by Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Richard Nimijean (Carleton University), The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad is published by Palgrave Macmillan in the book series: Canada and International Affairs.

Migration and the impact that immigrants have on Canada is and always has been central to a robust understanding of Canadian identity. However, despite claims that ‘the world needs more Canada,’ Canadians, their governments, and scholars pay much less attention to the estimated 3 million Canadian expatriates who live elsewhere. The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad features Canadian scholars who live and work outside Canada (or have recently returned to Canada) and who write and think deeply about identity construction. What happens when that Canadian is a scholar whose teaching, research and scholarship, professional development, and/or community engagement focuses directly on Canada? How does being abroad affect how we interpret Canada?

Chapters are contributed from the following authors (listed in order the chapters appear): Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean; Andrew C. Holman; Claire Campbell; Andrew Ives; Debra Thompson; Bernard C. Perley; Christina Keppie; Irene Bloemraad; Richard Nimijean; Steven Hayward; Don Sparling; Jason Blake; Julie Burelle; Patrick James; Anne Trépanier; Munroe Eagles; Athanasios Hristoulas; and Christopher Kirkey.

For more information, please consult: The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, Palgrave Macmillan

Edited by Michael K. Hawes (Fulbright Canada), Andrew C. Holman (Bridgewater State University) and Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), and published by Les Presses de l'Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press Mercure/Mercury Series, 1968 in Canada includes 16 chapters written by esteemed scholars (listed by order of chapter appearance) including: Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, and Christopher Kirkey; Paul Litt; P.E. Bryden; Jocelyn Létourneau; Stephen Azzi; Jane Arscott; Michael Temelini; Andrews Gemmell; Ira Wagman; Laura K. Davis; David Wright and Sasha Mullally; Graham Fraser; Christopher Kirkey Alexandre Turgeon; Andrea Chandler; Robin S. Gendron and David Edward Tabachnick; and, Will Smith.

The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians.

It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth of the Parti Québécois; the articulation of the new nationalism in English Canada and an alternative vision for Indigenous rights and governance; a series of public hearings in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; the establishment of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, nation-wide Medicare and CanLit; and a striving for both a new relationship with the United States and a more independent foreign policy everywhere else. And more. Virtually no segment of Canadian life was untouched by both the turmoil and the promise of generational change.

For more information, please consult: 1968 in Canada, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press Mercure/Mercury Series

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) and SUNY Plattsburgh’s Institute on Québec Studies, in partnership with Fulbright Canada, the Centre interuniversitaire des relations internationales du Canada et du Québec, and groupe d’études sur les Relations internationales du Québec (École nationale d’administration publique), the Québec Studies program at McGill University, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, and l'Observatoire sur les États-Unis (Université du Québec à Montréal), convened a two-day colloquium in Montréal on March 14–16, 2019, “Québec Society in 2019: Current State and Future Prospects.” The colloquium featured single discipline, multidisciplinary and comparative scholarly inquiries dedicated to defining, examining and evaluating contemporary Québec society. Select papers were published in a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies, the ACSUS peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal.

The American Review of Canadian Studies Volume 50.3 Fall 2020 Special Issue “Québec Society: Current State and Future Prospects” includes articles written by the following contributing authors (in order of appearance): Christopher Kirkey, Michael Hawes, Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin, Frédérick Gagnon & Stéphan Gervais; Ted Rutland; Peter Graefe & X. Hubert Rioux; Todd Potts & David Yerger; Raffaele Iacovino; Jessica Tornare & Natalie Rinfret; Pierre-Luc Lupien; Gabriel Lévesque & Maude Benoit; and, Isabelle Fournier.

Subscribers may access the special, guest-edited issue online

In March of 2018, Fulbright Canada, the Center for the Study of Canada at SUNY Plattsburgh, and the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa convened the third annual Canada Colloquium, entitled “Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation.” The meeting featured both indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, community leaders, youth representatives, and university administrators. The program was designed to explore significant and complex issues related to indigenous persons in Hawai`i, the United States more broadly, and Canada. Each article in this special issue addresses a key political and legal challenge that directly reflects the relationship between indigenous peoples and communities on the one hand and the national, state, and provincial governments on the other.

The American Review of Canadian Studies Volume 49.2 Special Issue on “Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability and Reconciliation” includes articles written by the following contributing authors (in order of appearance in the publication): Michael Hawes, Christopher Kirkey, Denise Eby Konan & Gregory Chun; Kathleen Mahoney; Sam Halabi; Courtney Jung; Adrienne M. Davidson; Stephen Cornell & Miriam Jorgensen; Victoria Herrmann; and, Leah Sarson.

Subscribers may access the special, guest-edited edition issue online

Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Oxford University Press 2016) examines the theoretical and practical realities of a unipolar world — a system in which a single power is disproportionally dominant and influential — and asks how it affects Canadian foreign policy.

Taking this model of unipolarity as their starting point, editors Michael Hawes (Fulbright Canada) and Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), along with 17 other contributors and esteemed scholars, cover such fascinating topics as Homeland Security, Canadian development policies, and geo-engineering. Chapter contributions include (by order of appearance in the publication): Michael K. Hawes and Christopher J. Kirkey; David Haglund; Lasha Tchantouridzé; Andrea Charron, Joël Plouffe, and Stéphane Roussel; Philip Oxhorn; Costanza Musu; Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald; Justin Massie and Manuel Dorion-Soulié; Christopher J. Kukucha; Geoffrey E. Hale; Elizabeth L. Chalecki and Lisa L. Ferrari; Prosper Bernard Jr. and Christopher J. Kirkey; Kenneth M. Holland; John Kirton; and, Michael K. Hawes and Christopher J. Kirkey.

Each chapter of this contemporary volume provides students with Learning Objectives and Suggested Further Resources to ensure that they can successfully navigate the various debates, and Study Questions to encourage their direct critical engagement with the material.

For more information, please consult: Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World, Oxford University Press 2016

The Institute on Québec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh and McGill University’s Québec Studies Program organized a workshop at the École nationale d’administration publique in Montréal for a select group of historians and political scientists to discuss the foundations, key actors, and a range of historical and contemporary policy issues associated with Québec’s international relations. This special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies volume 46 number 2 features select contributions presented at the workshop. Following the lead article authored by the special issue guest editors: Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Stéphane Paquin (École nationale de l’administration publique, Montréal), and Stéphane Roussel (École nationale de l’administration publique, Montréal); additional authors in the publication include: Stéphane Paquin; Jérémie Cornut; Tony McCulloch; Maurice Demers; Robin S. Gendron; David G. Haglund and Justin Massie; David Morin and Myriam Poliquin; and, Claire Turenne Sjolander and Jérémie Cornut.     

Subscribers may access the special, guest-edited issue online

What is Québec’s relationship with the rest of Canada? Is there a distinct Québécois culture? What is Québec’s place on the international stage?

These are questions editors Stephan Gervais (McGill University), Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), and Jarrett Rudy (McGill University) address in Québec Questions: Québec Studies for the Twenty-first Century published by Oxford University Press (2016). Bringing together expert contributors, the text examines the province through historical, social, cultural, political, and economic perspectives.

Building on the strength of the first edition (2011), new chapters in the second edition (2016) discuss the law and legal traditions, visual arts and sport in Québec, and Québécois perspectives on federalism and sovereignty. An expansive pedagogical program — including thoughtful introductions, timelines, biographies, case studies, primary source documents, critical thinking questions, and a new glossary - makes this a thoughtful, engaging, and passionate exploration of la belle province.

In addition to the co-editors, Stephan Gervais, Christopher Kirkey, and Jarrett Rudy, chapters are contributed by: Denyse Baillargeon; Louis Balthazar; Eric Belanger and Chris Chhim; Chantal Bouchard; Linda Cardinal; Donald Fyson; Jean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiens; Peter Graefe; Dominic Hardy; Andrew Holman; Raffaele Iacovino; Christopher Jones; Daniel Jutras; Germain Lacasse; Yvan Lamonde; Diane Lamoureux; Jocelyn Maclure and Francois Boucher; Antonia Maioni; David Massell; Marie McAndrew, Genevieve Audet, and Mahsa Bakhshaei; Micheline Milot; Jody Neathery-Castro and Mark Rousseau; Martin Papillon; Maryse Potvin; Brett Rushforth; Sylvain Schryburt; Daniel Weinstock; and, Brian Young.

For more information, please consult: Questions: Québec Studies for the Twenty-first Century published by Oxford University Press

This Québec Studies Supplemental Issue was spearheaded by Christopher Kirkey (Institute on Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh), Jarrett Rudy and Stéphan Gervais (Québec Studies Program, McGill University) along with a group of new scholars producing exemplary scholarship on Québec. For the third time in five years, the model of convening a colloquium at the biennial conference of the American Council for Québec Studies resulted in a journal issue of Québec Studies.

“Crossing Boundaries in Québec Studies” includes articles written by: Christopher Kirkey, Jarrett Rudy, and Stéphan Gervais; Christina Kannenberg; Alexandre Turgeon; Isabelle Fournier; Komla Dzigbede; Yulia Bosworth; Maxime Morin; and, Julia Lewandoski.

This is the second volume of a collaborative venture between Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Stéphan Gervais (McGill University) and Jarrett Rudy (McGill University) that compiles scholarship on Québec by new and emerging scholars. The articles published in “Memory, Sexuality, and the Transnational: New Scholars in Québec Studies” Québec Studies Special Issue (Winter 2013) originate from the Québec Studies Colloquium held on November 7, 2012 convened in partnership with the American Council on Québec Studies biennial conference held in Sarasota, Florida.

Following the special issue’s first article, “Securing the Future: New Scholars in Québec Studies,” written by Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Stéphan Gervais (McGill University) and Jarrett Rudy (McGill University):

• The “Memory” section of this special issue includes articles by: Greg Rogers; Alexandre Turgeon; Kathryn M. Droske; and, Marion Kühn.
• The “Sexuality” section of this special issue includes articles by: Brian Martin; Hannah Vaughan; and, Sunita Nigam.
• “The Transnational” section of this special issue includes articles by: Ruth Jones; Tanya Déry-Obin; and, Dana L. Baker and Cassandra Rasmussen.

The goal of this special issue of Québec Studies is to showcase the originality, insights and talent of new scholars (doctoral candidates and junior professors) on Québec. To realize this goal, a partnership was initiated between Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Stéphan Gervais (McGill University) and Jarrett Rudy (McGill University) to organize a Québec Studies Colloquium for papers to be presented by selected participants on November 3, 2010 in conjunction with the biennial conference of the American Council for Québec Studies held in Burlington, VT. Following the event, participants received a variety of suggestions for paper revisions, and the revised essays were later re-submitted, then underwent an external blind peer-review to result in this publication.

Following the article, “Fostering New Scholarship on Québec,” written by Christopher Kirkey, Stéphan Gervais, and Jarrett Rudy, this collection is proud to highlight the scholarly efforts of (in order of appearance): Kathryn Droske; Danielle Jouët-Pastré; Stéphanie Cox and Jung-Hwa Rosa Hong; Babacar M’Baye; and, Denver Lewellen.

The nine essays presented in this special issue were selected from some 45 papers presented at the CONNECT colloquium, convened at SUNY Plattsburgh, October 14-15, 2010. The select essays cover a wide range of topics, all of which contribute to an understanding of Canada, and to the development of the field of Canadian Studies. CONNECT seeks to ensure the permanence and growth of the study of Canada at American universities by identifying, engaging, orienting and mentoring new scholars (doctoral candidates, junior professors and select mid-career scholars) and preparing them to teach, publish and participate in the professional life of Canadian Studies.

The authors used methodologies and analytical tools from a wide range of disciplines, including public policy, economics, law, history and the social sciences. The articles illustrate the variety and substance—the wide range of perspectives—that CONNECT scholars have begun to elaborate.

The American Review of Canadian Studies Volume 42.2 Special Issue on “CONNECT — New Voices on Canada” includes articles written by the following contributing authors (in order of appearance): Christopher Kirkey & Joseph-André Senécal; Lawrence B.A. Hatter; Wendi A. Lindquist; Sara Beth Keough; Jeffrey R. Parkey; Kyle Conway; April D. Allen; Susan W. Johnson; Joseph M. Santos; and, David B. Yerger.

Subscribers may access the special, guest-edited issue online

This educational book, Nokkahigas: Champlain and the Meeting of Two Worlds, has been developed to increase knowledge and appreciation of Samuel de Champlain and the two worlds he gravitated between: Europe and the Northeast Woodlands of North America. It provides readers with a rare perspective of the evolving economic, political and social circumstances that governed Champlain’s roles as explorer, ethnographer, fur trader and diplomat. A scholarly yet warm and engaging narrative of 72 pages, with historic illustrations.

First user-friendly condensed biography of the explorer Samuel de Champlain that is designed to serve the needs of the education community and general public in the U.S.A.

Samuel de Champlain’s years of engagement between the French and the Amerindians are presented in a sequential fashion. On the right side of the pages, readers will find a thematic narrative; on the left-hand side: carefully chosen annotated full color illustrations. Notes and select readings complete the volume.

The Center for the Study of Canada and the Institute on Québec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh, were fortunate to secure the talents of author Joseph-André Senécal, Ph.D. Senécal was born in the city of Québec, has lived in the United States since 1956, and is Professor Emeritus of French language and literature and former Director of the Canadian Studies program at the University of Vermont.

To obtain your free copies of the Nokkahigas book, please email: [email protected]

Also published by the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Québec Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh is the map “New France in the Champlain Valley, 1609–1759” researched and conceptualized by Joseph-André Senécal. The map is inscribed with place-names and other geographical designations used by French explorers, soldiers and settlers between 1609–1759, a time when France claimed and settled the area, now of New York State and Vermont.

An electronic copy of the New France in the Champlain Valley Map, 1609–1759, is available for download.

New France in the Champlain Valley Map, 1609–1759

For more information, review these brief videos featuring Dr. Senécal discuss the context of the map of New France in the Champlain Valley, 1609–1759, and the images it contains:

Watch: Overview of the New France in Champlain Valley Map with Dr. Joseph-Andre Senecal

Watch: Dr. Joseph-Andre Senecal Discusses Images Printed on the New France in the Champlain Valley Map

The Center for the Study of Canada publishes a wide variety of Canadian studies scholarly publications including textbooks, monographs and comprehensive bibliographies.

Publications can be purchased by contacting the center with an order request and accompanying payment. Please note that payment must be in U.S. dollars and can be made by personal or certified check, bank draft or by MasterCard, Visa or Discover.

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Teaching Canada

Teaching Canada is the leading annual Canadian studies outreach publication for the U.S. This innovative magazine format publication, dedicated to a comprehensive review of contemporary Canadian and Canada–U.S. issues, features articles by leading government officials, scholars, teachers and outreach coordinators. Teaching Canada is an indispensable source for K–12 administrators, faculty and students alike.

Price — $10.00 per copy.

O Canada

O Canada is the premier textbook available for K–12 educators and students in the United States. Now in its 2nd edition, O Canada takes a comprehensive approach to the study of Canada. Chapters focus on a wide range of topics. Richly illustrated, O Canada is written and designed by George Sherman.

Price — $35.00 per copy. Bulk discounts available.

Introducing Canada

This 11 chapter volume, produced in 1997 by the National Council for the Social Studies in association with the National Consortium for Teaching Canada, provides a rich overview of Canada for the K–12 classroom. Contributions include history, politics, geography, culture, and economics. This volume also includes instructional activities, resources and strategies for K–12 educators interested in Canada.

Price — $15.00 per copy

Focus Canada Series

This series, a collection of occasional monographs about Canada, contains the following volumes:

(1) Reflections from the Past: perspectives on Canada and on the Canada–U.S. relationship;

(2) The Canada–U.S. Economic Relationship: global and regional dimensions;

(3) Peter Black, Canada Matters: Chronicles of a Northern Neighbour; and,

(4) Hiroshi Itoh, editor, Canada’s Asian Connection.

Price — Volumes 1–4, $7.50 per volume or purchase the set for $20.00.

Women Writing in Quebec

This volume, produced in 2000, focuses on women writing in Québec. Dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Kissner — who served as associate director at our center for nearly twenty years and made pronounced, heartfelt professional and personal contributions to the vitality of Canadian studies — this work contains a wide variety of essays focused on such writers as Anne Hebert, Gabrielle Roy, Nicole Brossard and others.

Special Discounted price — $10.00 per copy. Bulk discounts available.

The Geography of Canada Bibliography Series

This series, authored by acclaimed SUNY Plattsburgh professor Tom Rumney, is the benchmark reference work for all educators interested in the complete scholarship produced on the geography of Canada. Each comprehensive volume is accompanied by maps and resource materials. Six volumes are available for purchase: volume 1 — Quebec; volume 2 — The Prairies; volume 3 — Atlantic Canada; volume 4 — Ontario; volume 5 — British Columbia; and, volume 6 — The North.

Price — Volumes 1–6, $25.00 per volume or purchase the set for $110.00.

Canadian Children’s Literature Selected Bibliography

The leading bibliography available on Canadian children’s literature, this volume produced by Emily Castine, captures the richness of children’s literature written by Canadian authors about Canada and young Canadians. An ideal resource for teachers, students and librarians.

Price — $15.00 per copy.