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ROBERT SCOTT SHEFFIELD
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| Email: scott.sheffield[at]ufv.ca |
| Office: 3110a (Abbotsford Campus) |
| Ph: 604-504-7441, ext. 4763 |
| Education: PhD Tri-University Doctoral Program, Wilfrid Laurier University (2000) |
| Specialty: Canada, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Military, New Zealand |
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| Current Projects: |
| I am currently working on a SSHRC-funded comparative study of indigenous participation in the Second World War in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. This project is undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer, Department of History, St. Jerome's University, and will result in a major monograph and two or three articles over the next three to four years. In addition to this I am currently writing a chapter on Fist Nations contributions th the war effort in Canada for a festschrift volume in honour of renowned military historian, Terry Copp. This valume is due out in 2009. |
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| Major Grants: |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Standard Research Grant, 2008-2010 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Aid to Conferences and Workshops, 2006-07 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2001-03 |
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| Publications: |
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| Monographs |
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“The Red Man’s On the Warpath”: The Image of the ‘Indian’ and the Second World War, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. |
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Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military. Ottawa: Department of National Defence, accepted, forthcoming fall 2008. (With P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Maxime Gohier.) 176 pp. |
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| Edited Books |
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Aboriginal Peoples and the Military: Canadian and International Perspectives, eds., P. Whitney Lackenbauer, R. Scott Sheffield and Craig Mantle, Kingston: CDI Press, 2007. |
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| Government Publications |
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A Search for Equity: A Study of the Treatment Accorded to First Nations Veterans and Dependents of the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. The Final Report of the National Round Table on First Nations Veterans' Issues. Ottawa: Assembly of First Nations, May 2001, xv, 64 pages. Released in French as, En quête d'équité : étude sur le traitement réservé aux anciens combattants des Premières Nations ayant combattu pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la guerre de Corée, ainsi qu'aux personnes à leur charge. Par R. Scott Sheffield. Ottawa : Assemblée des Premières Nations, 2001. xv, 64 pages. |
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Articles in Refereed Journals and Peer-Reviewed Collections |
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“Rehabilitating the Indigene: Post-war Reconstruction and the Image of the Indigenous Other in Anglo-Canada and New Zealand, 1943-48,” in, Rediscovering the British World. Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis, eds. University of Calgary Press, 2005. |
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“Aboriginal Contributions to Canadian Culture and Identity in Wartime: English-Canada’s Image of the ‘Indian’ and the Fall of France,” invited submission to, Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Vol. 1. David Newhouse, Cora Voyageur and Daniel Beavon, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. |
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“Fighting the King’s War: Harris Smallfence, Verbal Treaty Promises and the Conscription of Indian Men, 1944,” University of British Columbia Law Review. Vol. 33, no. 1 (August 1999): 53-74. Co-authored with Hamar Foster. |
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Articles in Other Publications |
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“Indifference, Difference and Assimilation: Aboriginal People in Canadian Military Practice, 1900-45,” in Aboriginal People and the Canadian Military: Historical Perspectives, eds. Craig Mantle and Whitney Lackenbauer. Kingston: CDI Press 2007. |
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“Moving Beyond Forgotten: The Historiography of Native Peoples in the World Wars,” Co-authored with Whitney Lackenbauer, in Aboriginal People and the Canadian Military: Historical Perspectives, eds. Craig Mantle and Whitney Lackenbauer. Kingston: CDI Press, 2007. |
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“Canadian Aboriginal Veterans and the Veterans’ Charter After the Second World War,” in Aboriginal Peoples and Military Service: Canadian and International Perspectives, eds. Whitney Lackenbauer, R. Scott Sheffield and Craig Mantle. Kingston: CDI Press 2007. |
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“Reconstructing the ‘Indian’: The Second World War, Reconstruction and the Image of the ‘Indian’ in English-Canada, 1943-45,” Canadian Military History Since the 17th Century: Proceedings of the Canadian Military History Conference. Ottawa: National Defence, 2001: 523-532. |
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“Of Pure European Descent and of the White Race”: Recruitment Policy and Aboriginal Canadians, 1939-1945,” Canadian Military History. Vol 5, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 8-15. |
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