Jeffery Vacante

Assistant Professor

BA (McGill); MA, PhD (Western)

Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 89269
Office: Lawson Hall 1221

Office Hours:

Fall Term - Wednesdays 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
Winter Term - Fridays 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. 

 

Supervision

Master's & Co-Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Teaching: Fall/Winter 2025-26

Course Code Course Title
HIST 2132A History of American Popular Culture
HIST 2171B Greed is Good: The History of Modern Capitalism
HIST 2311G The United States: 1865 to the Present
HIST 2814G The History of Aviation

Research Interests


Professor Vacante is an intellectual, cultural, and gender historian. His work examines the history of nationalism, liberalism, and urban culture.


Book

National Manhood and the Creation of Modern Quebec (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017).

Articles

"Rethinking the Conquest in Canada," Queen's Quarterly 131, no. 4 (Winter 2024): 602-611. 

"The Decline of Hugh MacLennan," University of Toronto Quarterly 85, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 43-68.

"Quebec Manhood in Historical Perspective." In Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Christopher J. Greig and Wayne J. Martino (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2012): 23-41.

“Sexualité et identité nationale dans les années 1940.” In Une histoire des sexualités au Québec au XXe siècle,” edited by Jean-Philippe Warren (Montreal: VLB éditeur, 2012): 87-100.

"The Posthumous Lives of René Lévesque,” Journal of Canadian Studies 45, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 5-30.

"Evolving Racial Identity and the Consolidation of Men’s Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec," Canadian Historical Review 88, no. 3 (September 2007): 416-438.

"Liberal Nationalism and the Challenge of Masculinity Studies in Quebec," Left History 11, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 96-117.

"Writing the History of Sexuality and 'National' History in Quebec," Journal of Canadian Studies 39, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 31-55.