Dr. John Sutton Lutz
Short Curriculum
Vitae
Associate Professor
University of Victoria,
History Department
Education
Doctor of
Philosophy in History
University of Ottawa, 1995. Dissertation: "Work, Wages and Welfare in
Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Relations, British Columbia, 1849-1970."
Master of
Arts (History)
University of Victoria, 1988. Thesis: "Losing Steam: Structural Change
in the Manufacturing Economy of British Columbia, 1860- 1915."
Bachelor of
Arts (History and Economics)
with Honours and Distinction, University of Victoria, 1983.
Thesis: "Unstapling a Regional Economy: Innis, North and British
Columbia, 1858-1901."
Awards
Craigdarroch
Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University
of
Victoria, 2012.
Harold
Adams Innis Award
(Now
renamed the Canada Prize) for the
best book in the Social Sciences for Makúk:
A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations, 2010 from
the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities
Clio
Award for
the best book in British Columbia History for Makúk:
A New History of Aboriginal-White
Relations from the Canadian Historical Association 2009.
Choice
Outstanding Book Award
for Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White
Relations, 2009.
Award of Merit for the Times Colonist Digitization Project
from the
Victoria Hallmark Society (jointly with team from the University of
Victoria
Libraries and the Times Colonist). <www.britishcolonist.ca>.
2009.
Award
of Merit
for the Colonial Despatches project from the
Victoria Hallmark Society (jointly with the team from the UVic History
Department, the Humanities Computing and Media Center and the UVic
Library) <www.bcgenesis.ca>.
2009.
Award
of Recognition
for a major contribution to BC
Heritage from the BC Heritage Society for the British Colonist Online
project
(jointly with team from the University of Victoria Libraries and the
Times
Colonist).<www.britishcolonist.ca>.2009.
Clio Award (Shared) for
the best book in British Columbia History for the collection of essays Beyond the
City Limits: Rural History in
British Columbia, Ruth Sandwell, ed. (UBC Press, 1999), in
which “Relating
to the Country: The Lekwammen and the Extension of Settlement,” appears
on pp.
17-32 from
the Canadian Historical Association
Pierre Berton Award for the Dissemination of Canadian History
awarded by
the National History Society to the Great Unsolved Mysteries in
Canadian
History Project, 2008.
MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Online
Learning Resources for Phases One to Five of the Great Unsolved
Canadian Mysteries
Project, Awarded at the MERLOT International Conference, Minneapolis,
August,
2008.
Craigdarroch
Award for Research
Dissemination,
(shared) University of Victoria, March 2007 (Joint with Coast Under
Stress
Team).
Craigdarroch
Award for Research
Dissemination,
University of Victoria, March 2006.
Award
of merit:
Historical feature from the International Regional Magazine Awards for
“The war that nobody won,” British Columbia Magazine, (Winter 2005).
MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Online
Learning
Resources for Phase One
of the Great Unsolved Canadian Mysteries Project, Awarded at the MERLOT
International Conference, Vancouver, August, 2003
Vancouver Book Award, (Shared) for the Stó:lo:Coast
Salish Historical Atlas, 2002
in which I was a co-author.
Haig-Brown Prize (Shared) for the
best book on British Columbia for Stó:lo-Coast Salish
Historical Atlas
(Douglas and McIntyre/University of Washington Press/Stó:lo Heritage
Trust) 2002.
NAWEB (North American Web) Award (with Ruth Sandwell) for the Best of the Web
for 2001
for their murder mystery teaching site, “Who Killed William Robinson?
Race,
Justice and Settling the Land” <http://web/uvic.ca/history-robinson/>.
Journal of the West Best Article Prize for 1999-2000 for “When is an ‘Indian War’ not
a
War?: Canadian Indians and American Settlers in the Pacific Northwest,
1850s-1860s,” Journal of the West, 38, 3 (July
1998), 7-13.
Eugene Forsey Prize for the best dissertation in
labour and working-class history in Canada,
1996.
Governor General’s Gold Medal, University of Ottawa - awarded to a Ph.D.
graduate
for outstanding achievement, 1995.
Selected Publications
Books and Edited Books
Makúk: A
New History of Aboriginal White Relations. UBC
Press, 2008, 431pp.
Making and Moving Knowledge:
Interdisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge,
edited collection co-edited with Barbara Neis, McGill-Queens University
Press, 2008, 338pp.
Myth and
Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, edited
collection, University of British Columbia Press, 2007, 236pp.
Situating
Race and Racism in Time, Space and Theory: Critical Essays for
Activists and Scholars, edited collection co-edited with
Jo-Anne Lee, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005. 216pp.
Articles and Chapters
in Books:
“Making
the Inscrutable,
Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria’s Chinatown, 1891,” BC
Studies,
No. 169 (Spring 2011): 51-80. Co-authored with Patrick Dunae,
Jason
Gilliland, and Don Lafreniere.
Towards a Theory of Good
History Through Gaming," Canadian Historical Review,
Volume 90,
Number 2 (June 2009) 303-326, co-authored withKevin
Kee, Shawn Graham, Pat Dunae, Andrew Large, Michel Blondeau and Mike
Clare
"Introduction"and
"Conclusion: Miles to Go," with Barbara Neis in Making and Moving Knowledge:
Interdisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge,
McGill-Queens University Press, 2008, 338pp.
"First Contact as a
Spiritual
Performance: Aboriginal -- Non-Aboriginal Encounters on the North
American West Coast," in John Lutz, ed., Myth and Memory:
Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact,
(University of British Columbia Press, 2007) 30-45.
"Myth Understandings:
First Contact, Over and Over Again," Introduction to John Lutz, ed., Myth
and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact.
UBC Press, 2007, 1-14.
“Not Managing for Scarcity:
Social-Ecological Issues in Contemporary Fisheries Management and
Capture Practices,” co-author with others, in Coasts Under Stress:
Understanding Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
by Rosemary E.
Ommer and the Coasts Under Stress team. McGill-Queen's
University
Press, Montreal, 2007. 68-94. Authored 5%.
“The Human Voice of
Social-Ecological Restructuring: Jobs, Incomes, Livelihoods, Ways of
Life and Human Health,” co-author with others in Coasts Under Stress:
Understanding Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
by Rosemary E.
Ommer and the Coasts Under Stress team.
McGill-Queen's University
Press, 2007. 296-323. Authored 14%.
"Toward a Critical
Literacy of Racisms, Anti-Racism, and Racialization" co-written with
Jo-Anne Lee, in Lee and Lutz, ed.s Situating Race and
Racism in Time, Space and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and
Scholars Edited Collection. McGill-Queens University
Press. 2005. 3-29.
"Work, Sex, and Death
on the Great Thoroughfare: annual migrations of Canadian Indians to the
American Pacific Northwest." Parallel Destinies:
Canadians, Americans and the Western Border.
John M. Findlay and Ken Coates, eds. Seattle: Center for the Study of
the Pacific Northwest and University of Washington Press, 2002. 80-103.
"Riding the Horseless
Carriage to the Computer Revolution: Teaching History in the
Twenty-first Century," Histoire Sociale/Social History,
Vol XXXIV (68) November 2001, 427-436.
"Making Race in
British Columbia: Power, Race and the Importance of Place" in Richard
White and John Findlay eds., Power and Place in the North
American West, (Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1999).
"'Relating to the
Country': The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement,
1843-1911," in Ruth Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits:
Essays from British Columbia, (UBC Press, 1999).
"A Gender and Work in
Lekwammen Families, 1843-1970," in Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan
and Nancy M. Forestell, eds. Gendered Pasts: Historical
Essays on Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Oxford
University Press, 1999) 80-105.
Reprinted in:
Dan Glenday and Ann
Duffy ed.s, Canadian
Society: meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century
(Don Mills, Ont. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.)
Mary-Ellen Kelm and Lorna Townsend ed.s, In the Days of Our Grandmothers:
A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada,
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.)
"When is an Indian War
not a War?: Canadian Indians and American Settlers in the Pacific
Northwest, 1850s-1860s," Journal of the West,
38, 3 (July 1998) 7-13.
"Sto:lo People and the
Development of the B.C. Wage Labour Economy," co-authored with Keith
Carlson in Carlson, ed. You are Asked to Witness: The
Sto:lo in Canada's Pacific Coast History, (Chilliwack,
B.C.: Sto:lo Heritage Trust, 1997) pp. 109-124. Co-authored with Keith
Carlson.
"After
the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia,
1849-1890," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association,
N.S. 2, (1992) pp. 69-94.
Reprinted in:
C. Gaffield, ed., Constructing Modern Canada:
Readings in Post-Confederation History, (Toronto: Copp
Clark Longman, 1994) pp. 69-95.
Readings in the History of British Columbia, (Vancouver: Open
Learning Agency, 1997).
Laurel Sefton MacDowell and Ian Radforth, eds. Canadian Working Class History,
(Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000). 2nd Edition
and
and 3rd Edition (2006).
Bryan Palmer and Joan Sangster, eds. Labouring Canada: Class, Race
and gender in Canadian History, (Oxford University Press,
2007).
"Israel Wood Powell," Dictionary
of Canadian Biography, (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1998).
"Robert Garnet
Tatlow," Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) vol. 13, 1021-2.
"Light and Shadows:
Canadian Capitalists in Latin American and the Caribbean," Journal
of Canadian Studies, 28, 1 (Spring 1993) pp. 192-8.
(Review Essay).
"Technology in Canada
through the Lens of Labour History," Scientia Canadensis:
Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine,
vol. 15, no. 1, (Summer 1991) pp. 5-20.
"Losing
Steam: The Boiler and Engine Industry as an Index of British Columbia's
De-industrialization, 1880-1915," Historical Papers,
(now renamed the Journal of the Canadian Historical
Association) 1989, pp. 168-207.
"`Books which are no
books': An Introduction to the Use of Nineteenth Century B.C.
Directories," in The Researcher's Guide to British Columbia....
Victoria: Public History Group, 1988, pp. 1-13.
"Interlude
or Industry? Ranching in British Columbia, 1849-1885," B.C. Historical
News, vol. 13, no. 4, (Fall 1980) pp. 2-11.
History-Computing
Projects/Publications
Co-originator and
project co-director of
a non-profit internet-based teaching project based at the University of
Victoria. Its goal is to engage university and high school students in
an exciting problem-solving activity while it teaches about the main
themes, regions, and social groups in Canadian history and the critical
thinking skills used in constructing a history. Students do not just
learn about history -- they do it--creating a coherent narrative from
non-consecutive and often contradictory sources. The series now has
three websites and contemplates a total of 13 bilingual sites.
Fort Victoria Journal. Academic Director.
An edited version of
the Fort Victoria Post Journal from 1846-50 with Graham Brazier and the
Historical Editing Class, University of VIctoria.
An internet anthology
of 400 documents
(150,000 words) and 200 images relating to the Chilcotin War in the
colony of British Columbia in 1864. A part of the Great Unsolved
Mysteries in Canadian History Series. Translated into French as
"Personne ne connaît son nom : Klatsassin et la guerre de
Chilcotin." Launched April 1, 2004.
Colonial Despatches.
Academic Director.
Electronic publication
of Dr. James
Hendrickson's transcriptions of the communication of the governor's of
Colonies of Vancouver Island British Columbia with the Colonial Office
in London. At the moment only the despatches of 1858 are
available to the public. The rest will be added to the site
as
they are revised for the web.
Auto-biographies.
Director/Curator.
An archive of first
person accounts
of their family's relationship with the automobile drawn from student
projects in the university's "Social History of the Automobile Course."
A website on the
history of Victoria,
B.C. in the Victorian Era, built with research reports from student
projects. Launched April 2002.
ViHistory.ca.
Partner (with Patrick Dunae).
A series of searchable
census, directory
and assessment databases relating to Vancouver Island in the 19th
Century. Launched April 2003. )
Internet Anthology of
200 documents
(100,000 words) and 80 images relating to the death of a Black American
immigrant in the Colony of Vancouver Island blamed on an aboriginal man
who was hanged. The evidence suggests he may well have been innocent.
The first in the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Series. .
First launched in April 1997 and revised in 2001.
Other
publications
“Working Together Apart –
Collaborative Writing Tools for
the Spatially and Temporally Displaced” CHA
Bulletin, 37.3 (2011) 29-30.
“Beautiful
Data: Digital Tools that Make Data Look Sexy,” CHA
Bulletin, 37:1 Spring 2011, 18-19.
“ Bed Jumping
and Compelling Convergences in Historical Computing,” Digital
History, University of Nebraska, 2007
"The War That Nobody
Won," British Columbia Magazine, 47, 4 (Winter
2005) 42-49
"Preserving
Our Past Essential to Our Future", Op Ed Piece Times
Colonist, May 26, 2005.
The
Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Directories,
1901-1939, a Bibliography and Index, Victoria: Public History Group,
1993, 210p (with George Young).
The
Researcher's Guide to British Columbia Nineteenth Century Directories,
Bibliography and Index, Victoria: Public History Group, 1988, 150p
(with George Young).
Periodicals
Edited or Co-Edited
Teaching
History/Enseigner l'Histoire,
Athabasca University, an occasional papers series co-edited with Jeremy
Mouat. Teaching Women's History: Challenges and Solutions (January
1996) and Clio and Mars in Canada: Teaching Military History (December
1995).
Canadian
Historical Association Bulletin, Canadian Historical
Association, Quarterly, Summer 1989 - Spring 1991, 160p
Current
Community Activities
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