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Scott Berthelette

Assistant Professor

Department of History

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Scott Berthelette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Queen鈥檚 University. He researches the history of Indigenous Peoples, the M茅tis, New France, and the Hudson鈥檚 Bay Company. Scott completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in January 2020. His Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded dissertation is titled "Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and the Contest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1774," and examines how French-Canadian voyageurs and coureurs de bois were instrumental cultural brokers between Indigenous peoples and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay Watershed. This project will be published as a monograph with McGill-成人大片 Press. Scott is a member of the Manitoba M茅tis Federation, the federally recognized self-government of the M茅tis people of Manitoba.