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Chris Greencorn

About

Chris Greencorn is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Queen’s University. His research interests lie at the juncture of social & cultural history, ethnomusicology, folklore studies, and archival studies

Chris’s SSHRC-supported dissertation, supervised by Dr. Lisa Pasolli, examines the work of women folk culture collectors in 20th-century Canada, and in particular their constructions of "folk" and "traditional" music among settler, immigrant, and Indigenous peoples in the period leading up to Canada’s official multiculturalism policy. His MA research at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music focused on collector Helen Creighton's work in African Nova Scotian communities.

His professional background is in the music industry. Chris was Artistic Director of the in Canso, Nova Scotia (2018-20), sits on the Board of Directors of (formerly , and juries industry awards in several regions.

Chris holds a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship–Doctoral. He was the D. W. Stewart Graduate Fellow and Roger Graham Fellow in Modern Canadian History in 2023-24, and the Arthur & Evelyn Lower Graduate Fellow in Canadian History as well as a Duncan & Urlla Carmichael Fellow in 2022-23.

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Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"'I doubt if they were unusual': Race and Place in Helen Creighton's 1967 African Nova Scotian Recording Project," MUSICultures 51 (2024): 193–225. .

Scholarly Reviews

“Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840. By Daniel Robert Laxer. (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Pp. 320, 13 photos, 3 maps, 7 tables. $ 34.95 Paperback.)” Ethnohistory 71, no. 3 (2024): 409–11. .

“Sankofa Songs, A Legacy of Roots and Rhythm: African Nova Scotian Songs from the Collection of Dr. Helen Creighton” [sound recording review], MUSICultures 48 (2021): 400–3. .

Blog Posts

Responses to Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow 's  conference:  (October 3, 2022) and  (November 28, 2022).

As Editor

Founding editor, The Killick, undergraduate history student journal, St. Francis Xavier University.

Awards and recognition
  • Society for American Music Anne Dhu McLucas Fellowship
  • Canadian Society for Traditional Music Student Paper Prize
    • For â€œâ€˜I doubt if they were unusual’: Race and Place in Helen Creighton's 1967 African Nova Scotian Recording Project,” presented at CongrĂšs Dialogues Conference 100e FaMUL, UniversitĂ© Laval, May 2023
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship–Master's and Doctoral

Department of History, Queen's University

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Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

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