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Jeffrey Brison

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Jeffrey Brison is a cultural historian whose work examines the intersection of culture, philanthropy, and politics in North America, with a particular focus on Canada. He is the author of , a seminal study that investigates the role of private American philanthropy in shaping Canada鈥檚 national culture and which was nominated for the John Grenzebach Award in 2007.

A founding member of the , Jeff has expanded his research to explore the global dimensions of cultural diplomacy. His recent work includes and , along with a series of articles analyzing Canada鈥檚 use of "culture" in advancing its foreign policy and global positioning.

In addition to his research, Jeff is a dedicated educator and mentor. Over the past two decades, he has supervised more than 40 graduate students and served on numerous supervisory committees in History, Art History, the Faculty of Education, and the Cultural Studies Program. His excellence in teaching has been recognized with several prestigious awards and nominations, including the 2014 Faculty Teaching Award from the Department of History, the 2021 Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and the 2022 School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision.

Jeff is also the Director of Cultural Studies, Queen鈥檚 University鈥檚 interdisciplinary graduate program.

 

Selected Publications

Research Reports

Open Mic Report: Revisioning Culture for Cultural Policy. Author with Lynda Jessup, Sascha Priewe and Sarah E.K. Smith. Recommendations submitted to the Ministry of Culture, Government of Mexico, Mondiacult, 2022.

, Editor, with Lynda Jessup, North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, 2021, open access publication, available in English-, Spanish- and French-language editions, 104pp.

, Editor, with Sarah E.K, Smith, North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, 2021, open access publication, 136 pp.

, technical report co-authored with Lynda Jessup and Ben Schnitzer and prepared for the Copyright and International Trade Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage (2018). 56 pp.

 

Recent Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters

鈥淐anada: Art d鈥檃ujourd鈥檋ui: The Art of Diplomacy in the Wake of 鈥榁ive le Qu茅bec libre鈥,鈥 co-authored with Lynda Jessup, under review, Journal of Canadian Studies (in process). 12795 words.

鈥淭he Art of Diplomacy," co-authored with Lynda Jessup and Sarah E.K. Smith, in Understanding Cultural Diplomacy: Inside International Cultural Relations, ed., Nicholas J. Cull, Stuart MacDonald and Jonathan Vickery (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming 2025).

"Cold War 'Cultural Safaris': Canadian Art, Cultural Diplomacy and the Asian Commonwealth Tour,鈥 co-authored with Lynda Jessup, Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2024: 159-193.

鈥淭oward a Critical Diplomacy,鈥 co-authored with Lynda Jessup, Diplomatica 6 (2024): 44鈥70.

"Terre Sauvage: Globalizing Landscapes and the Group of Seven," co-authored with Lynda Jessup (double-length article), Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 56, Issue 3, November 2022: 495-535.

 

Works in Progress

Winners鈥 History: The Group of Seven, the National Gallery, and Canada鈥檚 Global Affairs (co-authored with Lynda Jessup; manuscript under revision)

Winners' History explores the history of Canada鈥檚 national art narrative in conversation with other art histories in circulation internationally over the course of the twentieth century. Focusing on representative exhibitions鈥攂y definition, state-sponsored shows鈥攖his book examines the role of national art histories in advancing hegemonic values, dominant narratives and 鈥渨inners鈥 histories.鈥 It grows out of recent research and a growing body of literature devoted to museum representation and the role exhibitions play in reproducing cultural authority, whether of the artist, the state, the citizens it defines as such, or the museum itself. Providing detailed discussion over fourteen chapters, it deals with government-sponsored international exhibitions of Canadian art to probe the relationship between the extended state sphere of culture and the policy sphere of the state, which historically has been more explicitly directed to the advancement of liberalism and its economics.

North Atlantic Men

This book-length project examines the extra-national intellectual and cultural networks of power that connected Canada, the United States, and Great Britain from the end of the First World War to the early years of the Cold War. This study takes a collective biographical approach to a cohort of Canadian scholars, culture-makers, and politicians who were key figures in a North Atlantic community of thought, and who shared extensive ties to an American cultural power elite and to centers of power of the old British Empire. This research aims to deepen understanding of how these individuals鈥 inclusion in formal and informal networks both facilitated and mediated state-to-state relations between Canada, Great Britain and the United States in an era during which the three states fundamentally redefined their roles in world affairs.

 

Awards and recognition

Awards:

  • Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision (School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs), 2022 (also nominated in 2019 and 2021)
  • Faculty of Arts and Science Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2021
  • Queen鈥檚 University Department of History's Faculty Teaching Award, 2014

Research Fellowships and Residencies:

  • Senior Resident, Massey College, University of Toronto, 2019-20
  • Scholar-in-Residence, Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown, New York, 2010-11
  • Research Fellow, Historic Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, 1998-99

Selected Research Funds and Grants:

  • Queen鈥檚 ELAP Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building, Global Affairs Canada, 2025-
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Co-Applicant, 鈥淭he Cultural Relations Approach to Diplomacy鈥 2019-2022 (extended to 2024).
  • Queen鈥檚 University and Queen鈥檚 University Faculty Association, Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work and Professional Development (Adjuncts), 2019-20
  • MITACS Accelerate Program, 鈥淭he International Dimension of Canada's Museums,鈥 Cluster of 6 History and Cultural Studies graduate student Research Fellows, 2018-21
  • Copyright and International Trade Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage, 鈥淐ultural Diplomacy and Trade: Making Connections," research contract grant, 2017-18
  • SSHRC Institutional Grants, Explore Grant, Queen鈥檚 University, 2018
  • Principal's Development Fund, Queen鈥檚 University, 2018
  • Fund for Scholarly Research (Adjuncts), Queen鈥檚 University, 2013-18        
  • Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, 2008
  • Research Award, Queen鈥檚 University Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, 2008
  • Research Award, Queen鈥檚 University Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, 2007
  • Queen鈥檚 University Conference Travel Award, 2006
  • Research Award, Queen鈥檚 University Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, 2006      
  • Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, 1995
  • Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, 1994

 

Graduate supervision

Jeff supervises graduate students researching diverse topics relating to cultural identity and nationalism; memory, heritage, and historical representation; histories of cultural production and consumption; and cultural diplomacy.

Completed PhD Supervisions (*SSHRC recipients):

  • *Christina Fabiani, 鈥淭attooing the Mainstream.鈥 (Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Laila Haidarali), 2024.
  • *Katie-Marie McNeill, 鈥淧risoner Aid Beyond Borders: A Transnational History of Prisoner Aid Societies in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, 1930-1970鈥 (Department of History, co-supervision with Karen Dubinsky), 2023.
  • *Bronwyn Jaques, 鈥溾楢 Ruin, More or Less, or a Place of Dark Nostalgia鈥: Prison Tourism and the Mobilization of Dark Heritage at Kingston Penitentiary鈥 (Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Lynda Jessup), 2022.
  • *James Jelinski, 鈥淓xpert Tattooing: The Development of a Profession in Canada, 1891-1986鈥 (Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Sarah E.K. Smith), 2019.
  • *Taylor Currie, 鈥淒u Pont鈥檚 Wonder World of Chemistry: Corporate Culture as Public Culture during the Twentieth Century鈥 (Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Blaine Allan), 2019.
  • *Sarah Dougherty, 鈥淎ll the World鈥檚 a Stage: Local, National, and Transnational Histories of the Stratford Festival鈥 (Department of History), 2019.
  • *Elizabeth Diggon, 鈥淓xhibiting Diplomacy: Art and International Cultural Relations in Cold War Canada鈥 (Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Lynda Jessup), 2018.
  • *Agnes Ladon, 鈥淭he Art of Arctic Sovereignty: Towards Visualizing the North as Canadian, 1927-1974鈥 (Department of Art History and Art Conservation, co-supervision with Lynda Jessup), 2017.
  • Kendall Garton, 鈥溾橝pocalypse at the Doll Counter鈥: Cultural Nationalism and English-Canadian Responses to the Barbie Doll, 1959-1969鈥 (Department of History), 2017.
  • *Sarah Isabel Wallace, 鈥淪ikh Immigrants in British Columbia and California, 1900-1924: Nativism, Government Surveillance and the Veil of Public Health Protection鈥 (Department of History, co-supervision with Barrington Walker), 2013.

Completed Masters Supervisions (*Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters recipients):

  • James Ball, 鈥淐anadian Identity and the Committee for an Independent Canada,鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2024.
  • Tianna Edwards, "Kingston, The Black Experience," (Thesis, Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Barrington Walker), 2023.
  • Alexandra Allain, 鈥淟a Naissance de la Patrie: The construction of La Guerre de la Conqu锚te in French Canadian historiography and its impact on public memory (MRP, Department of History), 2023.
  • Baraa Abuzayed, 鈥淓mbroidering a Faraway Land.鈥 (Thesis, Cultural Studies Program, co-supervision with Sarah EK Smith), 2023.
  • *Dani Reimer, 鈥淕ouzenko in the Public Eye: Newspaper Narratives of Cold War Conflict,鈥 (Thesis, Department of History, co-supervision with Karen Dubinsky), 2022.
  • *Alexander Kemp, 鈥淐anada鈥檚 鈥極il Shock鈥: Policy and Contemporary History鈥 (MA thesis, Department of History), 2020.
  • *Kiersten McLeod, MA 鈥淏athing Beauties: Synchronized Swimming, Esther Williams, and Athletic Femininity鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2019.
  • *Quinn Henderson, 鈥淗ate White North: The Heritage Front, Resistance Records, and White Power Activism in 1990s Ontario鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2019.
  • Ashley Ratcliffe, 鈥淪hame, Indigeneity, and the Emotional Politics of the Canadian Settler Imaginary: David Ahenakew and the Phenomenon of the Bad Aboriginal鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2018.
  • Alexander Pickering, 鈥淭oronto鈥檚 Post-War Governance and Expressway Scheme: High Modernism and 鈥楴egotiation鈥欌 (MA thesis, Department of History), 2018.
  • Jennifer Lucas, "To be North American but not American: The Transformation of Canadian Studies and Canadian Universities鈥 (MA thesis, Department of History), 2018.
  • Nicholas Grover, 鈥淣eoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67鈥 (MA thesis, Department of History), 2018.
  • Lauren Jaques, 鈥淪elling Canada: How 鈥楤randed Nationalism鈥 Has Shaped the Nation鈥 (MRP, Cultural Studies Program), 2018.
  • Kimberley Heath, 鈥'Cloudy Thinking': The Imagined Mushroom Cloud and the Psychological Construction of Chemical Warfare from a Canadian Perspective,1899-1945鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2017.
  • *Bronwyn Jaques, 鈥淪erve Canada with Men like These鈥: Masculinity, 鈥淧eacekeeping,鈥 and National Identity in Cold War Canada, 1956-1959鈥 (MRP, Cultural Studies Program), 2016.
  • Rebecca Smith, 鈥淏lack Hats and the Benefits of Popularity: A Reassessment of the Significance of Al Capone鈥檚 Cultivation of his Public Image鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2016.
  • Aaron Styba, 鈥淭he Tall Mast on the Horizon: The Material and Historical Remains of HMS St. Lawrence鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2015.
  • *Taylor Currie, 鈥淲e heard it on Cavalcade: Corporate Sponsored Radio and the Shaping of Liberal Consensus from the Great Depression to the Cold War鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2013.
  • Brooke Anderson, 鈥淐anadian Art at the 49th Parallel鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2012.
  • *Elizabeth Diggon, 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Art: Canadian Representations at the Venice Biennale鈥 (MA thesis, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, co-supervision with Lynda Jessup), 2012.
  • Megan Bylsma, 鈥淓mma Lake Workshops鈥 (MA thesis, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, co-supervision with Lynda Jessup), 2011.
  • Kendall Garton, 鈥淎pocalypse at the Doll Counter鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2010.
  • Jonathan Kelso, 鈥淢ore than a Birthday: Canada鈥檚 Centennial Celebrations鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2009.           
  • Martyn Clark, 鈥淲elcome to Reginapeg: Professional Hockey in Winnipeg, 1950 to 1999鈥 (MRP, Department of History), 2008.

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