Greg Kealey

The RCMP, CSIS and Spying: Canadians Under Surveillance
Sept. 26, 2012, 7 p.m., J. Harper Kent Auditorium, Wu Conference Centre, UNB

Since before Confederation, Canadian governments have run spy operations, with undercover agents, secret sources, agents provocateurs, coded communications, and elaborate files — often against Canadian citizens.

In his talk, Dr. Kealey will discuss why he believes Canadian governments have been so fearful of enemies within, when Canada’s history suggests strongly that it is one of the most peaceful, well-ordered, uneventful countries in a troubled world.

Greg Kealey is a professor of history in the faculty of arts at UNB Fredericton.

His areas of specialization are Canadian social and labour history, and security and intelligence history. His contributions to scholarship include serving as founding editor of Labour/Le Travail, general editor of the Canadian Social History Series, and as author or co-author of four books, including his most recent Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America, University of Toronto Press, with Reg Whitaker and Andy Parnaby.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Kealey has received numerous grants, fellowships, prizes and appointments, including visiting professorships and being named fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dr. Kealey is past vice-president (research) and provost at UNB. In this role, he chaired the boards of UNB’s four research institutes. He also served on the boards of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, and Populomix Cancer Research Institute, to name a few.

As a historian and expert in Canadian social and labour history, Dr. Kealey has lent his time and knowledge to a number of committee boards including, the Canadian Historical Association and the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. He is a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on the State of Science and Technology in Canada.

Dr. Kealey holds a bachelor of arts in modern history from the University of Toronto and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Rochester.