Brian McKillop, Ottawa

2004

Brian McKillop was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1946. He was educated at the following schools:

• Cecil Rhodes Public School, Winnipeg, 1951-1961
• Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg, 1961-1964
• University of Manitoba, 1965-1970 (BA 1968, MA 1970)
• Queen's University at Kingston, 1970-1972, PhD 1977

Brian McKillop has taught history at Dalhousie University, Queen's University at Kingston, the University of Manitoba, and Carleton University. Specializing in intellectual and cultural history, his research interests include religion, higher education, elite and popular culture, and historiography. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2001, he was designated Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University in 2002.

Professor of history at Carleton University, A.B. McKillop is one of Canada's leading historians of ideas. He is the award-winning author of several previously published scholarly works on the history of religion and higher education. His writings and speeches encompass not only studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, religion, education, and science but also the historical context of the composer Stephen Sondheim's musicals. He lives in Ottawa.

Publications

• The Spinster and the Prophet is a literary detective story and legal mystery about a Canadian spinster, the eminent English writer H.G. Wells, an accusation of plagiarism, and the history of the world.
• Matters of Mind is a comprehensive intellectual and social history of the university in Ontario from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.
• Contours of Canadian Thought is a collection of essays on Canadian intellectual history with a focus on nineteenth century science, religion, and philosophy.
• Disciplined Intelligence is a study of the relationship of religious belief, philosophical creeds, and critical inquiry in Canadian thought from the mid-nineteenth century to the Great War of 1914-18.
• A Disciplined Intelligence Second edition, with a new introduction describing the book's origins and its historiographical context, and with an up-to-date bibliographical note, published October 2001.
• God's Peculiar Peoples (Editor) - A selection of essays by historian S.F. Wise on the history of political ideas and culture in Upper Canada and Ontario.
• Contexts of Canada's Past A broad selection of essays by historian W.L. Morton on Canadian history.
• William Lyon Mackenzie: a Reinterpretation The first and only major biography of Upper Canadian radical politician William Lyon Mackenzie, a book suppressed by legal action early in the twentieth century by Mackenzie's grandson, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
• A Critical Spirit A selection of essays on politics, culture, and society by nineteenth century Canadian positivist, social critic, and "man of letters", William Dawson LeSueur.

Awards and Honours

• W.L. Morton Gold Medal - University of Manitoba, 1970
• Margaret McWilliams Medal - Manitoba Historical Society, 1970
• Sir John A. Macdonald Prize - (Honourable Mention), Canadian Historical Association,1979
• Research Award in the Humanities - Rh Institute, University of Manitoba, 1981
• F.-X. Garneau Prize - (Honourable Mention), Canadian Historical Association , 1985
• Marston-LaFrance Research Fellowship - Carleton University, 1992-3
• Canadian Historical Association Certificate of Regional Merit, Best Book on History of Ontario,1995
• Research Award of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education - 1996
• Research Achievement Award - Carleton University, 1996-7
• Governor General's Award for Non-fiction - (Nominee), The Canada Council, 2000
• Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography - (Nominee), The Writers' Trust of Canada, 2001
• Arthur Ellis Award for Best "True Crime" Book - Crime Writers of Canada, 2001
• University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography - 2001
• City of Toronto Book Award - 2001
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 2001
• The Charles Taylor Award for Literary Non-Fiction - (Nominee), 2002
• Research Achievement Award - Carleton University, 2002-3
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

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