Kurt Korneski
Position
Professor and Head
Academics
- Ph.D. 91亚色 of Newfoundland
- B.A. Northern Illinois University
Contact
Department of History
91亚色 of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Email: kkornesk@mun.ca
Room: AA-4002
Phone: (709) 864-8424
Research Interests
Kurt Korneski檚 research interests include the history of capitalism, colonialism, development policy, and environmental history -- particularly as they relate to diplomacy and the social history of fishers, the fishing industry, and fishing communities in northeastern North America.
Recent Publications
Books:
Conflicted Colony: Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador (Montreal and Kingston 2016).
Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s (Madison, NJ 2015).
Articles:
淧lanters, Eskimos, and Indians: Race and the Organization of Trade Under the Hudson檚 Bay Company in Labrador, 1830-50, Journal of Social History, 50(Winter 2016), 307-335.
淒evelopment and Diplomacy: The Lobster Controversy on Newfoundland檚 French Shore, 1886-1904, The International History Review, 36(March 2014), 45-69.
淩ailways and Rebellion: The 楤attle of Foxtrap Reconsidered, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 28(Spring 2013), 97-116.
淒evelopment and Degradation: The Emergence and Collapse of the Lobster Fishery on Newfoundland檚 West Coast, 1856-1924, Acadiensis, XLI, 1 (Winter/Spring 2012), 21-48.
with Reade Davis, 淚n a Pinch: Snow Crab and the Politics of Crisis in Newfoundland, Labour/Le Travail, 69(Spring 2012), 119-45.
淢innie J.B. Campbell, Reform, and Empire, in Gerald Friesen and Esyllt
Jones, eds., Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social history (Winnipeg 2009), 18-43.
淩ace, Gender, Class, and Colonial Nationalism: Railways and Development in
Newfoundland, 1881-1898, Labour/Le Travail, 62(Fall 2008), 58-72.