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Fall 2018 Honorary Degree Recipient

Doctor of Laws (honoris causa)

Over her 40 years of pathbreaking, community-minded scholarship, Dr. Margaret Conrad has brought new light to the stories that make up the history of Atlantic Canada and Canada as a whole. Her work has聽illuminated forgotten journeys and pushed social history to the forefront of the narrative. It has broadened the voices who speak to us from the past and influenced generations of students and scholars.

Dr. Conrad, who has a BA from Acadia University and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto, spent much of her 40-year career at Acadia鈥檚 Department of History. She has also served as the Nancy鈥檚 Chair in Women鈥檚 Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University in 2002 became the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick, where she is presently Professor Emerita. She has published widely in Canadian history and women鈥檚 studies, including co-writing pioneering textbooks that are now standard in history courses across the country. She is a leader in the digital humanities and was critical to helping restore the near-forgotten contributions of the pre-Loyalist New England Planters to Atlantic Canadian history.

Dr. Conrad is past president of the Canadian Historical Association. She is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of both the Queen鈥檚 Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals. She holds honorary degrees from Acadia University, Mount Saint Vincent University and the University of Manitoba.