Katharine McGowan
Katharine McGowan’s research interests include Native peoples’ participation in the First World War, the evolving relationships between Native communities and the Canadian government. She also has a continued interest in Canada’s involvement in the Boer War, and regional, national, and imperial concepts of identity. Dr. Ken Coates supervises her doctoral research, facilitated by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Fellowship).
Selected Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “‘A Finger in the Fire’: Canadian Volunteer Soldiers and their Perceptions of Canada’s Collective Identity through their Experience of the Boer War.” War and Society 28.1 (May 2009): 61-87.
- “In the Interest of the Indians: The Department of Indian Affairs, Charles Cooke and the Recruitment of Native Men in Southern Ontario for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916.” Ontario History 102.1 (Spring 2010): 111-126.
Book Chapters
- “Indigenous Nationalisms and the Great War: Enlisting the Six Nations in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), 1914-17″ in Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Military: Historical Perspectives ed. P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Craig Mantle. Kingston: CDA Press, 2007. 89-115. (With P. Whitney Lackenbauer)