Kevin Spooner

Assistant Professor of North American Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University

Kevin Spooner joined the Canadian Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier in 2005 and has taught in North American Studies since 2007, when this new program was created. He teaches several undergraduate core courses in the program’s Canadian Studies stream and supervises graduate students in the History Department’s Tri-University Graduate Program. Prior to arriving at Laurier, he taught with the Canadian Studies Program and History Department at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario. His academic interests include Canadian foreign policy; peacekeeping; race, anti-racism, ‘national’ and ‘regional’ identity(ies) and community; and Canadian historiography.  His recent publications include Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-1964 (2009) and Documents on Canadian External Relations, 1959. Vol. 26. Edited with Janice Cavell and Michael D. Stevenson (2006).

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