The Montreal History Group is happy to welcome a new member : Katie Carson.
Katie Carson is a PhD student in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, where her research focuses on how Canadians participated in transnational human rights activism through their labour organizations in the postwar period. Working under the supervision of Dr. Edward Dunsworth, her dissertation examines how discourses of human rights intersect with labour’s pre-existing traditions of activism to shed light on the role working people played in the evolution of international human rights history. She has previously conducted oral histories and archival research on transnational activism during the 1970 October Crisis and the human scope of natural disasters. Carson is an Active History fellow, where she has recently co-edited a series (Indian Act 150) reflecting on the 150 years since the passing of the Indian Act.
Welcome Katie!