Faculty Profile
- McGowan, Mark, Ph.D. Toronto
- Professor & Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean, International, St. George Campus
- mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
- (416) 946-5028
- (416) 926-1300 ext. 3253
- Office: SS 2061
Field: Religion, immigration, and media history; Canada and Ireland
Specialist in the religious, social, and communications history of Canada and Ireland. Co-editor of the award-winning books Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto (1992) and The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (McGill-Queen’s 1999); Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen’s, 2005); he has recently completed a revisionist work on the Irish Famine migration to Canada (for the CHA Canadian Ethnic Groups Series) and a short award-winning book for the Ireland Park Foundation: Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847 and Toronto. He is currently researching the evolution of religious broadcasting in Canada and writing a book on Canada’s Irish Catholics during the Great War. A recipient of four University Teaching Awards, he served as Principal of St. Michael’s College from 2002 to2011, and as Acting Vice-Provost, Students, for the University of Toronto for part of 2013.