Jean Lamarre, Ph.D.Associate Professor

Department of History

Jean Lamarre completed his PhD in American History in 1996 at the University of Montreal under the direction of Bruno Ramirez. His thesis focused on the emigration of the French Canadians to Michigan from 1840 to 1914. He teaches American History, American Foreign Policy, Introduction to the History of Canada and seminars in Canadian and American social history. He teaches also courses on Québec History and on the relations between the United States and Québec.

His research is in the fields of the emigration of French Canadians to the Midwest, French Canadian participation in the American Civil War (1861-1865), American social movements of the Sixties and their relations with those in Quebec. Finally, he is a founding member of the GRIQUERE, an interuniversity research group on the Quebec of the 1960s and its external relations, group that regularly organizes conferences dealing with social movements of the Sixties. 

University Degrees:

• Ph.D. (Université de Montréal)
• M.A. (Université de Montréal)
• B.A. (Université de Montréal)

Research Interests:

• American social movements of the 60s and their relations with Québec society
• The correspondence of North Americans Immigrants
• The participation of French Canadians in the American Civil War
• The migration of the French Canadians to the Michigan and the North-West

Courses Taught:

• HIF 102 - Introduction à l’histoire canadienne
• HIF 207A - Introduction à l’histoire canadienne
• HIF 312A - Histoire des États-Unis de la colonisation à la guerre civile
• HIF 314B - Histoire des États-Unis de la Reconstruction à Ronald Reagan
• HIF 401B - Histoire du Québec depuis 1945.
• HIF 402A - Histoire sociale du Canada de la Confédération à la crise
• HIF 403A - Histoire sociale du Canada de la Confédération à aujourd’hui
• HIF 404B - Histoire sociale du Canada de la crise à aujourd’hui
• HIF 405B - Histoire des relations canado-américaines
• HIF 410 - Le Canada et la guerre
• HIF416A - Histoire de la politique étrangère américaine de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale
• HIF 418B - Histoire de la politique étrangère américaine des années 1920 jusqu’aux années Reagan

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