Leslie Howsam

University Professor, History
Graduate Faculty

Ph.D. York University, 1989
M.A. York University, 1983
B.A. University of Waterloo, 1968

2180 Chrysler Hall North
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
tel. 519-253-3000 ext. 2330

lhowsam@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

the history of the book, cultural history of Britain, 19th and 20th centuries, history books and periodicals as print media, women in Victorian Britain

Current Projects

I am working on a project called “Public History in Print Culture: England’s Past in Victorian Periodicals”. With the help of graduate student research assistants, I am searching the newly-digitized online editions of the vast corpus of magazines, reviews and other periodicals to discover how ideas and knowledge of the past were expressed in those media.

Selected Publications

Guest editor (with Jane McLeod) of, and introductory essay to, "Book Networks and Cultural Capital: Space, Society and the Nation", a special issue of Memoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture.    

http://www.erudit.org/revue/memoires/2010/v2/n1/index.html 

“Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916,” History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 5 no.1 (2005). 

http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/issues/vol5/5

Past into Print: the publishing of History in Britain 1850-1950. London and Toronto: British Library

and the University of Toronto Press, 2009.

“What is the historiography of books?: Recent Studies in Authorship, Publishing and Reading in Modern Britain and North America,

” Historical Journal 51:4, 1089-1101.

http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A26fIOFD

Old Books & New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book & Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Recent Graduate Students Supervised

Jason Underhill, “Masculinity, Patriarchy and Witchcraft in Early Modern England, 1550-1650,” Major Paper 2009.

Kevin Spiteri, “Empire and Masculinity in the Boy’s Own Paper 1879-1899, Major Paper 2007.

Margaret Green, “The Quaker Women of the West Lake Monthly Meeting 1800-1865: ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history’.” Major Paper 2006.

Linda Bunn, “A Study of Ethnic Identity Among the Irish in Gosfield Township, Essex County, 1871-1901,” Major Paper 2004.

Courses Taught