Will Langford
Assistant Professor
Email: w.langford@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2011
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address:
- Canadian History
- Political Activism and Social Movements
- Development and Environmental History
Education
- B.A., University of British Columbia, 2009.
- M.A., University of British Columbia, 2011.
- Ph.D., Queen's University, 2017.
Professional Employment
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, pilipili, 2017-2019.
- Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2019-2021.
- Assistant Professor, Department of History and College of Sustainability, pilipili, 2021-
Research Interests
A historian specializing in twentieth-century Canada, Will Langford is interested in political activism, social movements, environmental change, and transnational connections. His first book is a history of development programs that approached the problem of ending poverty through empowering poor people and trying to create a more meaningful democracy. He is currently working on a history of right-wing political movements in late twentieth-century Canada.
Selected Publications
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). *Honourable Mention, 2020 Wilson Book Prize, L.R. Wilson Institute of Canadian History
“,” Canadian Historical Review 104, no. 2 (2023): 198-226.
“,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 15, no. 2 (2021): 317-338.
“‘Will Freedom Survive?’: Reconstruction, Self-Disciplined Democracy, and the Stirring of a New Right in Canada, 1943-1954,” in , eds. Julien Mauduit and Jennifer Tunnicliffe (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 264-296.
“International Development and the State in Question: Liberal Internationalism, the New Left, and Canadian University Service Overseas in Tanzania, 1963-1977,” in , eds. Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), 184-205.
“,” Acadiensis 46, no. 1 (2017): 24-48.
“,” Canadian Historical Review 97, no. 3 (2016): 346-376.
“,” American Indian Quarterly 40, no. 1 (2016): 1-37.
“,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine 41, no. 2 (2013): 30-41.
“,” BC Studies 173 (2012): 11-39.
Popular Writing
With Catherine Carstairs, “,” University Affairs, 3 January 2023.
“,” Histoire engagée, 22 novembre 2022.
“,” Active History, 25 October 2022.
“,” Active History, 20 October 2022.
“,” Active History, 18 October 2022.
“,” Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian, 1 February 2021.
“,” Active History, 5 May 2020.
“,” Active History, 28 April 2020.
“,” Active History, 21 April 2020.
Reports
With Catherine Carstairs, Sam Hossack, Tina Loo, Christine O’Bonsawin, Martin Paquet, John Walsh, , 6 October 2022.
Fall 2024 Office Hours
- Fridays, 1:00-3:00
- On-line or by appointment
Teaching 2024-2025
- HIST 2920W Environmental History
- HIST 3282F Public History
- SUST 1000F What is Sustainability?
- SUST 1400W Exploring Sustainability