MISC Lunch and Learn Lecture: "Social Catholicism as Canadian Leftism: Lived Religion and Living Otherwise in Toronto during the Depression" - Robert H. Dennis
Robert H. Dennis holds a Master鈥檚 Degree in Political Science from Memorial University, a Master鈥檚 Degree in History from the University of New Brunswick, and he is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Queen鈥檚 University. His publications include work on offshore oil and gas development in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador, the politics of public memory and commemoration surrounding the closing of the Montreal Forum, and he recently published an article in Historical Studies entitled 鈥淏eginning to Restructure the Institutional Church: Canadian Social Catholics and the CCF, 1931鈥�1944.鈥� He holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, which supports his dissertation research on the relationship between Roman Catholicism and the Canadian left in Toronto during the 1930s and 1940s, and teaches an Honours seminar on Religion in North American Society, 1800鈥�1960.