Director of SASI; Associate Professor
History
Abbotsford campus, Acting Director: Dr. Garry Fehr
email JatinderDr. Jatinder Mann is the Director of the South Asian Studies Institute and an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley. He specialises in transnational, international, and comparative history, law, and politics, with a focus on Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, South Africa, and the British World. Jatinder is also the Creator and Manager of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Jatinder is British and of South Asian descent, specifically from the Punjab. He has also lived and worked in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Jatinder’s current research project is on the ‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’. He also has over forty refereed publications, which include over a dozen books and edited journals. Jatinder’s most recent book is Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (2024). He has also published numerous articles in front-ranking and emerging interdisciplinary journals. Jatinder is a co-editor in the forthcoming Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 with UNSW Press. He is also the editor for a book series on ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ with Peter Lang Publishing, New York. Jatinder is the Editor-in-chief and Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS). He was also awarded the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta. Jatinder was a recipient of the highly competitive Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for his doctoral research at the University of Sydney. He has also held visiting fellowships at King’s College London, the Australian National University, Carleton University, and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
BA (Hons), MA (London), Ph.D. (Sydney), PgDip (London), LLM (Reading)
‘Who am I and my vision for SASI’, South Asian Studies Institute (SASI), University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, Canada, 2 October 2025 – Invited speaker
‘Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge’, Department of History Research Celebration, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 4 June 2025 – Invited speaker
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’ – This paper was given at the following venues:
‘Redefining citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘Using Echo360 for My Asynchronous Online Teaching’, TALES Workshop, Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning, HKBU, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, 14 January 2020
‘The redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was given at the following venues:
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s: Comparisons’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was given at the following venues:
- Department of History Research Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 24 January 2019 – Invited speaker
- Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 12 October 2016 – Invited speaker
- Department of History and Classics Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 31 March 2016
- Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 24 November 2015 – Invited speaker
‘Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s: Comparisons’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
'Organisation: The Key to Success', HKBU Library 'Learning Events' Series, HKBU, Hong Kong SAR, 11 April 2018 and 23 November 2017 – Invited speaker
‘The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia and Canada, 1950s-1970s: Comparisons’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘Identity Politics and the New Age of Multicultural Nations’, The Sydney Institute, Sydney, Australia, 13 February 2017
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’, New Zealand Studies Network, Regent’s University London, London, UK, 24 November 2016
‘Civic Nationalism, Imperial Identities, and Punjabi Migration: Sundar Singh’s Political Activism in the Dominion of Canada’, New Zealand India Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 27 January 2016 – Invited speaker
‘“Anglo-Conformity” and “Incorporation into the Anglo-Celtic culture”: A comparison of assimilation policies in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1950s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘“Saying Sorry”: A comparison of the Australian and Canadian governments’ apologies to Indigenous peoples for the “stolen generations”’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘“Retaining migrant cultures” and “Leavening British traditions”: A comparison of integration policies in Canada and Australia, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘“Incorporation into the Anglo-Celtic culture”: Assimilation policy in Australia, 1890s-1960s’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘A comparison of Australia and Canada’s experiences during the First World War’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘The British World during the First World War: Australia, New Zealand, and the question of Japan’, The 20th Annual Conference of the NZSA, Oslo, Norway, 27June 2014
‘Finance and Loans’, Research Symposium on Australia in the Great War – Centenary Perspectives, KCL, London, UK, 23 May 2014 – Invited speaker
‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework”: Canada as a multicultural nation’, BACS Annual Conference, London, UK, 25 April 2014
‘The British World during the First World War: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the question of Japan’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘“Retaining migrant cultures”: Integration policy in Canada, 1950s-1960s’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘A comparison of the introduction of multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1960s-1970s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the British World’, Life Beyond the PhD Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom (UK), 13 August 2013
‘“To hold so great a heritage as ours”: Mackenzie King and Canadian immigration policy’, Mackenzie King – Unsung Hero? Conference, UCL-IA, London, UK, 12 July 2013
‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19: Undertaking a major collaborative documents-based research project’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘“To the last man and the last shilling” and “Ready, aye ready”: A comparison of the conscription debates in Australia and Canada during the First World War’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘An Australian Foreign Policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’ – This paper was given at the following locations:
‘Australian foreign policy in historical context: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Lowy Lecture Series, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia, 22 November 2012
‘“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation policy in Canada, 1890s-1950s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Australian Studies Panel - European Australian Studies Centre Link, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, 10 September 2012 – Invited speaker
‘The abandonment of multiculturalism in Europe? Lessons to be learned from multicultural policies in Australia and Canada’, University of Surrey Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), Department of Politics, 8th Annual Conference, Joint international multidisciplinary conference with Migration Research Unit (MRU), UCL and University of Roehampton, UK, The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 27 June 2012
‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’, Reappraising the First World War Seminar, Imperial War Museum (IWM) London, London, UK, 21 June 2012 (Co-presented with Prof Carl Bridge) – Invited speaker
‘An opportunity to endeavour’, Special Guest Speaker, European Endeavour Alumni Reception, Australian Ambassador to Belgium-Luxembourg and Australian Mission to EU’s Residence, Brussels, Belgium, 19 June 2012 – Invited speaker
‘The evolution of Commonwealth Citizenship, 1945-48: The Canadian Citizenship Act, the British Nationality Act, and the British Nationality and Australian Citizenship Act’, Menzies Australia Institute 2011/12 Seminar Series, KCL, London, UK, 8 February 2012
‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework” and “A cohesive, united, multicultural nation”: Multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1970s-the present’, Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 21 November 2011
‘The introduction of multiculturalism in Australia and Canada, 1960s-1970s’, Menzies Australia Institute 2010/11 Seminar Series, KCL, London, UK, 23 February 2011 – Invited speaker
‘Home or Away? My experiences as a student in Australia’, The Ties That Bind: Australian and British University Interactions Symposium, Australian High Commission, London, UK, 12 October 2010 – Invited speaker
Books:
Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (edited with Bart Zielinski) https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648
Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2
Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (edited with Iain Johnston-White) https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365
Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b15770
Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6
The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s, Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016) https://doi.org/10.3726/b10438
Edited Journals:
Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS),
vol. 5, September 2025. https://doi.org/10.52230/LPMJ3817
JACANZS, vol. 4, August 2024. https://doi.org/10.52230/ZZKK5564
JACANZS, vol. 3, September 2023. https://doi.org/10.52230/GZFJ8298
JACANZS, vol. 2, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.52230/COUN2702
JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 2, December 2021. https://doi.org/10.52230/HOHC1251
JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2021. https://doi.org/10.52230/DZCW5241
‘Canada 150’ – Special Issue of the BJCS, vol. 31, issue 2, September 2018 – edited with Nadia Verrelli and Susan Billingham
https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/bjcs/31/2
Articles:
‘The implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand’, JACANZS, vol. 5, September 2025: 51-104. https://doi.org/10.52230/RVQH2862
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 5, September 2025: 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.52230/NDMR7949
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 4, August 2024: 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.52230/OOSR1543
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 3, September 2023: 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.52230/TMGG7210
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 2, September 2022: 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.5223/IVUM3385
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 2, December 2021: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.52230/TFDJ9622
‘The Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2021: 45-77. https://doi.org/10.52230/VSNV9897
‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2021: 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.52230/VQGX5133
‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission, 1916-1917: A Re-Assessment’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 106, part 2, December 2020: 146-164 (with Carl Bridge).
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’. National Identities, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2019: 73-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2017.1369019
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’. Asian Journal of Canadian Studies (AJCS), vol. 24, no. 2, December 2018: 17-53. https://doi.org/10.35178/ajcs.2019.24.2.17
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, 1950s-1970s’. Chinese Journal of Australian Studies, Issue 2, December 2018 (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press): 41-75.
‘Introduction’, ‘Canada 150’ – Special Issue of BJCS, vol. 31, issue 2, September 2018: 129-131. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2018.9
‘Civic Nationalism, Imperial Identities, and Punjabi Migration: Sundar Singh’s Political Activism in the Dominion of Canada’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 39, issue 2, June 2016: 305-328 (with Andrew Smith). https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2016.1155688
‘“To the last man and the last shilling” and “Ready, aye ready”: Australian and Canadian conscription debates during the First World War’. Australian Journal of Politics and History (AJPH), vol. 61, issue 2, June 2015: 184-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12097
‘The British World during the First World War: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the question of Japan’. JNZPS, vol. 3, issue 1, May 2015: 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps.3.1.5_1
‘“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation policy in Canada, 1890s-1950s’. International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 50, December 2014: 253-276. https://doi.org/10.3138/ijcs.2014.014
‘A Tale of Two Ex-Dominions: Why the procedures for changing the rules of succession are so different in Canada and Australia’. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (CCP), vol. 52, no. 3, July 2014: 376-401 (with Andrew Smith). https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2014.919732
‘“Leavening British traditions”: Integration policy in Australia, 1962-1972’. AJPH, vol. 59, issue 1, March 2013: 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12003
‘The introduction of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1960s-1970s’. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 18, no. 3, July 2012: 483-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2012.00553.x
‘The evolution of Commonwealth citizenship, 1945-48 in Canada, Britain and Australia’. CCP, vol. 50, no. 3, July 2012: 293-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2012.692923
Scholarly Book Chapters:
‘Conclusion’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (with Bart Zielinski): 221-226. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648
‘The demise of Britishness and the rise of multiculturalism in Australia, 1960s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024): 185-202. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648
‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (with Bart Zielinski): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648
‘The Redefinition of Citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 97-116. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_5
‘The Redefinition of Citizenship in Australia, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_4
‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_1
‘Conclusion - Why revisit the British World?’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Editors), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (with Iain Johnston-White): 253-262. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365
‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022): 205-226. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365
‘Introduction – Revisiting the British World’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (with Iain Johnston-White): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365
‘The redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (Editor), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_5
‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_1
Encyclopedia Entries:
‘War Finance (Australia)’ in Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (Eds), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War (Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 15 January 2015). https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10538
Conference Publications:
‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework” and “A cohesive, united, multicultural nation”: Multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1970s – the present’ in Lesley Harbon and Lindy Woodrow (Eds), Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China. 21-22 November 2011, Conference Proceedings (Sydney, NSW: Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, December 2011): 13-18.
Executive Editor of ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ Book Series:
Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648
Pavithra Jayawardena, Immigrants’ Perceptions of Citizenship: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b18491
Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365
Bill Apter, Rethinking the Australian Dilemma: Economics and Foreign Policy, 1942-1957 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021) https://doi.org/10.3726/b17510
Travis J. Hardy, The White Men’s Countries: Racial Identity in the United States-Australian Relationship, 1933-1953 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2020)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b15632
Jatinder Mann, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019) https://doi.org/10.3726/b15770
Amar Wahab, Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019) https://doi.org/10.3726/b13462