David Frank
My teaching and research interests are in Canadian History, especially labour, social and political history, the history of Atlantic Canada, and film history. I am a past editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region and currently managing editor of its book-publishing partner, Acadiensis Press. I have served as president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History and director of the New Brunswick Labour History Project.
Recent courses at the University of New Brunswick:
- History 1315: Canadian History on Film
- History 2300: An Introduction to Canadian History
- History 3331: The Canadian Worker to 1914
- History 3332: The Canadian Worker since 1914
- History 5331: Film and History in Canada
- History 5335: a History of the Canadian Left
- History 6301: The Making of Canadian History
- History 6302: Atlantic Canada
Recent books:
Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour (2013), also available in French as Solidarités provinciales: Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
Labour Landmarks in New Brunswick / Lieux historiques ouvriers au Nouveau-Brunswick (2010), with Nicole Lang, Université de Moncton
J.B. McLachlan: A Biography (1999). A prizewinning account of the life and times of the champion of the Cape Breton coal miners.
Recent articles and book chapters:
“Organized Labour and the Making of Public Policy in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick”, Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, Issue 2 (2011)
“Why Us? The Campaign against Wage Controls in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1975-76”, Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements, eds. Marie Hammond-Callaghan and Matthew Hayday (Fernwood Publishing: Winnipeg, 2008), pp. 211-21
“Minto 1932: The Origins and Significance of a New Brunswick Labour Landmark”, Acadiensis, XXXVI, 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 3-27.
“In Search of the Canadian Labour Film”, Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema, eds. Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 25-45.
Website features:
“James Sugrue”, “Célime A. Melanson”, “James Tighe”, “E.R. Steeves”, “James A. Whitebone”, “Minto 1932”, “Saint John 1976”, “Hot Cargo, 1979”, “Executive Officers of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour” [database]: these and other features on New Brunswick labour history are at www.lhtnb.ca [also presented in French]
Recent reviews and commentaries:
Review of Esyllt Jones and Adele Perry, eds., People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011), in Our Times, vol. 31, no. 6 (December 2012-January 2013), pp. 39-41.
“W is for Workers, not Just for War”, StraightGoods.ca, www.sgnews.ca [posted 29 November 2012]
Review of Sean Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America (New York: Doubleday, 2010), in Labour/Le Travail, 68 (Fall 2011), pp. 214-7.
“Don’t forget Equal Opportunity and the Constitution”, Telegraph-Journal, 22 March 2011, p. A9.
Review of Darrell Varga, ed., Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada (Calgary: Calgary University Press, 2009), Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 1 (March 2010), pp. 178-80.
Recent graduate supervisions:
Lachlan MacKinnon, “Labour Landmarks in Industrial Cape Breton, 1922-2011” (M.A., 2012)
Donald Nerbas, “The Politics of Capital: The Crisis and Transformation of Canada’s Big Bourgeoisie, 1917-1947” (Ph.D., 2010)
Patrick Marsh, “Machinists of Moncton: The Endeavours of Local 594, International Association of Machinists, 1916-1933” (M.A., 2010)
Kimberley Dunphy, “The Feminization of the Labour Movement in New Brunswick: Women in the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, 1913-1984” (M.A., 2009)
Ashley Harding, “Nathan Cohen is for Mourning: A Cape Breton Play in Toronto, 1953” (M.A. Report, 2009)
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Contact Information:
Office: Tilley 117
Phone: (506)458-7431
