Allan Greer

Allan Greer is professor emeritus of History at McGill University and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Specializing in the early history of Canada in the context of the Americas and the Atlantic World, Greer has published, among other works, Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740 1840; Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits; Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. These books have won a number of national and international prizes. He has been awarded residential fellowships at Cambridge University, l'Institut d’études avancées in Paris, the British Library and the John Carter Brown Library. His work benefited from a Guggenheim and a Killam fellowship. Recently he received the Royal Society of Canada's J.B. Tyrell Historical Medal. Greer is currently writing a 15,000 year "deep history" of Canada.