Ronald Rudin
Professor Rudin has published five books and numerous articles that touch upon the economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most recently, he has published Founding Fathers: Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908, which explores how a series of large-scale commemorative events in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Quebec were staged to communicate certain ideas about the past to the larger pubic. Building on this interest in commemorative events, Professor Rudin is currently engaged in a research project, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, that will study the celebrations to be staged between 2004 and 2008 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of European settlement in Canada.