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James E Moran
Name:
James E Moran
Email:
jmoran@upei.ca
Position:
Chair, History
Professor
Department:
History and Classics
Phone:
902-566-0765
Building:
SDU Main Building 403
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar Biography

Chair, History and Classics; Professor

BA, MA, PhD (York)

James Moran teaches courses in Canadian History, the history of Quebec, historiography, and the history of health and medicine in North America. His publications include: Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario (2000); with David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2006); and with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007). He is currently writing a book on madness and civil law in England and the United States.

Research Interests
  • History of mental illness

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