Jennifer Reid

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| occupation = Historian

| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2015)

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| thesis_title = No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia

| thesis_url = https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/59af9252-799e-4230-83d4-70a917abab45

| thesis_year = 1994

| doctoral_advisor = Robert Choquette

| discipline = First Nations history

| main_interests = {{flatlist|

History of Mi'kmaq religion
Louis Riel

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| workplaces = University of Maine at Farmington

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Jennifer Reid is a Canadian-American historian whose research focuses on the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), and Finding Kluskap (2013). She was a professor at University of Maine at Farmington.

Biography

Jennifer Reid was born to parents of differing religious and language backgrounds – English-speaking Protestant William and French-speaking Catholic Irene{{Cite interview |last=Reid |first=Jennifer |title=Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada – Author Interview |url=https://uofmpress.ca/books/louis-riel-and-the-creation-of-modern-canada/supplement/louis-riel-and-the-creation-of-modern-canada-interview |access-date=December 26, 2024 |work=University of Manitoba Press}} – and raised in Arnprior, a suburb within the Ottawa–Gatineau region.{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Douglas J. |date=December 28, 2008 |title=U.S. religion professor offers fresh take on Riel-politik |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2547696080 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |work=Winnipeg Free Press |page=D |id={{ProQuest|2547696080}}}} She obtained her BA (1990) at University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), as well as her MA (1992) and PhD (1994) at the University of Ottawa;{{Cite web |title=Department of Philosophy and Religion – Directory by Academic Department |url=https://www.umf.maine.edu/directory-search/by-academic-department/?cohortid=18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002135253/https://www.umf.maine.edu/directory-search/by-academic-department/?cohortid=18 |archive-date=October 2, 2015 |access-date=December 28, 2024 |website=University of Maine at Farmington}} her doctoral dissertation No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia was supervised by Robert Choquette.{{Cite thesis |last=Reid |first=Jennifer |title=No man's land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th century Acadia |date=1994 |publisher=University of Ottawa |url=https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/59af9252-799e-4230-83d4-70a917abab45}} She joined the faculty of the University of Maine at Farmington in the mid-1990s, eventually becoming professor there. She worked for the Niwano Peace Foundation as a researcher in 2015.

Reid, who became interested in First Nations culture after befriending several Mi'kmaq students during her time at UCCB, specializes in the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies. She is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Worse Than Beasts (2005), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance (2011), Finding Kluskap (2013), and Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (2014). She introduced a 2003 special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Religion and the Imagination of Matter.{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Jennifer I. M. |date=2003 |title=Introduction: The Stuff of Creation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24764306 |journal=Journal for the Study of Religion |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=5–8 |issn=1011-7601 |jstor=24764306}} She has also written op-eds for the Ottawa Citizen: one in 2008 on Louis Riel's complex identity and folk hero legacy;{{Cite news |last=Reid |first=Jennifer |date=November 22, 2008 |title=A perfectly incompatible country |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/468466424/ |work=The Ottawa Citizen |page=B7 |via=Newspapers.com}} and another in 2009 criticizing Canada's rationale for not signing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples due to racial inequality concerning First Nations people.{{Cite news |last=Reid |first=Jennifer |date=May 16, 2009 |title=Canada is increasingly alone on aboriginal rights |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/468452576/ |work=The Ottawa Citizen |pages=B7 |via=Newspapers.com}} She also received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Humanities Council.

As a student of religion historian Charles H. Long, Reid is academically associated with the Chicago school, and she has engaged in academic work related to him. She edited Religion and Global Culture, a 2003 volume which focuses on Long's field of the relationship between religion and globalization, and she wrote the forward of Ellipsis..., a 2018 edited volume republishing some of Long's work.{{Cite web |title=The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/collected-writings-of-charles-h-long-9781350032644/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604115355/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/collected-writings-of-charles-h-long-9781350032644/ |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |website=Bloomsbury}}

In 2015, Reid was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion;{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Reid |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/jennifer-reid/ |access-date=December 29, 2024 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} as part of the Fellowship, it was announced that she would to travel around North America and Australia to engage socially with activists and Indigenous lawyers concerning land rights.{{Cite news |last=Schroeder |first=Kaitlin |date=April 22, 2015 |title=Professor wins fellowship to probe land rights cases |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/924176066/ |work=Portland Press Herald |pages=B3 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=April 24, 2015 |title=UMF professor named Guggenheim fellow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/832592425/ |work=Sun-Journal |pages=B3 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Reid is a Canadian and American dual citizen.{{Cite web |last=Reid |first=Jennifer |title=Jennifer Reid - Curriculum Vitae |url=https://farmington.academia.edu/JenniferReid/CurriculumVitae |access-date=December 20, 2024 |website=Academia.edu}}

Bibliography

Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995){{Cite journal |last=Grant |first=John Webster |date=1997 |title=Myth, Symbol and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700–1867 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3170720 |journal=Church History |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=384–385 |doi=10.2307/3170720 |issn=0009-6407 |jstor=3170720|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Griffiths |first=Naomi E. S. |date=1999 |title=Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700–1867 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25025643 |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=674–675 |issn=0008-8080 |jstor=25025643}}{{Cite journal |last=Martijn |first=Charles A. |date=1997 |title=Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700–1867 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/590086/pdf |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=165–167 |issn=1710-1093}}{{Cite news |last=Robb |first=Jim |date=September 8, 1996 |title=Trio of books offers insightful view of Canada's people and their history |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/465217146/ |work=The Ottawa Citizen |page=C11 |via=Newspapers.com}}
(ed.) Religion, and Global Culture (2003){{Cite web |title=Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739160169/Religion-and-Global-Culture-New-Terrain-in-the-Study-of-Religion-and-the-Work-of-Charles-H.-Long |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202190709/https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739160169/Religion-and-Global-Culture-New-Terrain-in-the-Study-of-Religion-and-the-Work-of-Charles-H.-Long |archive-date=December 2, 2022 |access-date=December 28, 2024 |website=Rowman & Littlefield}}
Worse Than Beasts (2005){{Cite web |title=Worse Than Beasts: An Anatomy of Melancholy and the Literature of Travel in 17th and 18th Century England |url=https://www.thedaviesgrouppublishers.com/reidbeasts.htm |access-date=December 18, 2024 |website=The Davies Group, Publishers}}
Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008){{Cite journal |last=Braz |first=Albert |date=2009 |title=Review of Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30223977 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=114 |issue=3 |pages=748–749 |doi=10.1086/ahr.114.3.748 |issn=0002-8762 |jstor=30223977|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Bruyneel |first=Kevin |date=2013 |title=Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23534569 |journal=Great Plains Quarterly |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=190–191 |issn=0275-7664 |jstor=23534569}}{{Cite journal |last=LaDow |first=Beth |date=2010 |title=Review |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/westhistquar.41.2.0250 |journal=Western Historical Quarterly |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=250 |doi=10.2307/westhistquar.41.2.0250 |issn=0043-3810 |jstor=westhistquar.41.2.0250|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=McManus |first=Sheila |date=2009 |title=Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.643 |journal=Pacific Historical Review |volume=78 |issue=4 |pages=643–645 |doi=10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.643 |issn=0030-8684 |jstor=10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.643|url-access=subscription }}
Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance (2011){{Cite web |title=Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance: Mathias Carvalho's Louis Riel |url=https://www.thedaviesgrouppublishers.com/reidcarvahlo.htm |access-date=December 18, 2024 |website=The Davies Group, Publishers}}
Finding Kluskap (2013){{Cite journal |last=Hornborg |first=Anne-Christine |date=2014 |title=Finding Kluskap. A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43861862 |journal=Anthropos |volume=109 |issue=2 |pages=736–737 |doi=10.5771/0257-9774-2014-2-736 |issn=0257-9774 |jstor=43861862|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=MacDougall |first=Pauleena |date=2014 |title=Finding Kluskap: A Journey Into Mi'kmaw Myth |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24551138 |journal=Western Folklore |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=493–495 |issn=0043-373X |jstor=24551138}}
Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (2014){{Cite web |title=Religion, Postcolonialism, and Globalization: A Sourcebook |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/religion-postcolonialism-and-globalization-9781472586100/ |access-date=December 18, 2024 |website=Bloomsbury}}