Thomas Peace
Thomas Peace is an associate professor of history, and co-director of the Community History Centre, at Huron University College. He is an historian of settler colonialism and education at the turn of the nineteenth century with a strong interest in how the public engages with, and uses, the past. Over the past five years, Peace has focused his teaching and research on Huron University College's historical relationship to the operation of several residential schools. Most recently (May 2021), with former student Natalie Cross, he published ““My Own Old English Friends”: Networking Anglican Settler Colonialism at the Shingwauk Home, Huron College, and Western University.” This article developed from the Documenting Early Residential Schools Project, a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant that partnered with the Woodland Cultural Centre and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre to digitize and transcribe nineteenth century records related to the two residential schools most tightly associated with Huron. He has published twenty journal articles or book chapters on subjects ranging from early schooling in Indigenous communities to the interaction between history and archives in the digital age. With Kathryn Labelle, he is editor of the book From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650-1900 (Oklahoma University Press, 2016), with Sean Kheraj, The Open History Seminar, an online open educational primary and secondary source reader, developed in partnership with eCampus Ontario. He is also the author of The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790 and part of the editorial team at ActiveHistory.ca
