William Acres

- Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Cambridge, 1992), FRHistS
Telephone: 519-438-7224 ext. 608
Email: wacres@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall 2245
Office Hours: Mondays 1pm - 2 pm, by appointment

Research Interests

Professor Acres' current research is focused on "Breaking Trust and the New England Company at the Grand River Mission, 1827-1934" and "John Strype, New Histories and Old Religion, 1680-1737."

Selected Publications

Journals:

"The Burghley Letters" Cambridge for the Royal Historical Society, 2017
"Exploring Religion" Oxford, 2014
Reviews: "Masques and interpretations" Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Drama.
"Burghley", Review for Seventeenth Century Conference Papers: Pacific Coast Conference in British Studies, 2001, Stanford.
"The Idea of Britain" " Frontiers of 'British' political culture, 1590-1603" American Historical Association, submitted, for San Francisco, January 2002.

Book Chapters:

"Samuel Hume Blake's Pan-Anglican Exertions: Stopping the expansion of residential and industrial schools for Canada's Indigenous Children, 1908", Trauma and Survival in the Contemporary Church, Cambridge Scholars, eds. Jonathan Lofft and Tom Powers, 2021, pp. 9-26; https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-6582-1-sample.pdf

Editions:

Special Tri-History Issue, ed. W. D. Acres, June 2019, Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 56 (edited major papers in the history of the Journal).
Journal of Church Historical Studies, edited, Samuel Hume Blake's The Church's Missions Amongst Aborigines in America, vol. LVI (56), pp. 4-26 (originally for the Pan-Anglican Conference Papers 1908, London), June, 2019.
Documents of the Mohawk Institute, 1872-77 to the New England Company, Introduction and edition, William Acres; Special volume LIX (2021-2022), Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, 2024.

News and Media

Behind the Bricks, University of Calgary Press, Arts in Action series, eds. Jennifer Pettit, Tom Peace, and Alison Norman, 2024, chapters: collected essays, in press.
"Robert Ashton, the New England Company and the Mohawk Institute, 1872-1903"
Lands of the Mohawk Institute: Robert Ashton and the demise of the New England Company's "station", 1891-1922
Scholarly exchange with Indigenous partners: https://diohuron.org/resources/huron-archives/pages/the-mush-hole-mohawk-institute

o Major Library and Archives Canada grant to involve Haudenosaunee Scholars in cataloguing and bringing to survivors and others materials in the Diocese of Huron, V. P. Cronyn Archives, now at the Woodland Cultural Center, Six Nations, Ontario. Worked with Archivist Dez Necario on the grant and its importance for the Six Nations culturally and historically 2023-4;

o Major Library and Archives Canada grant to Haudenosaunee Scholars in digitizing and completing online catalogues for materials relating to the Mohawk Institute in the V. P. Cronyn Archives, Huron University College, 2024-5.