The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies is delighted to announce the release of the inaugural issue of the Yale Journal of Canadian Studies.
This first issue, which was edited by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Assistant Professor at McGill University, honors the late Robin Winks, the former Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History at Yale. Drawing upon six essays, the journal explores the enormity and breadth of his contributions to Canadian History, in addition to the sizable personal and professional impacts he had on each of the essayists. As Professor Adjetey notes in his introduction to the journal “one cannot speak of Canadian Studies without paying homage to Winks.”
In addition to paying homage to Professor Winks, this wide-ranging inaugural issue explores topics ranging from the role of racial marginalization in Canadian Studies to Canada’s contribution to NATO to English and French approaches to colonization (and why there were no territorial cession treaties in New France).
The Yale Journal of Canadian Studies was conceptualized and stewarded by Jay Gitlin, Coordinator of Yale’s Committee on Canadian Studies and Senior Lecturer in Yale’s History department, with assistance from Hira Jafri, Program Manager at the MacMillan Center. A second issue of the journal is under development, with release expected in late 2024.
Those who are interested in a copy of the journal should reach out the Yale Canadian Studies Committee at canadian.studies@yale.edu