Faculty Profile
- Mills, Sean, Ph.D. Queen’s
- Assistant Professor, St. George Campus
- sean.mills@utoronto.ca
- (416) 585-4590
- Office: SS 2055A
Field: Post-1945 Quebec and Canadian history, transnational history, race, gender, migration, political.
Sean Mills is a historian of post-1945 Canadian and Quebec history, with research interests that include postcolonial thought, migration, race, gender and empire. His articles have appeared in leading journals as well as in national and international collections of essays. In 2009 he co-edited New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, and in 2010 he published The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal (French translation with Hurtubise, 2011), a book which received the Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Award (2010), as well as an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. MacDonald Award (2011), given out annually for the best book in Canadian History. In 2016, he co-edited Canada and the Third World: Overlapping Histories, as well as publishing A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (French translation forthcoming with Mémoire d’encrier, 2016). He is currently working on a book about music and history.