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Lorene Bridgen

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Waterloo

Degrees: M.A., The University of Windsor 2008; B.A. (Honours), The University of Windsor 2006

lbridgen@uwaterloo.ca

The focus of my research is African-Canadian History in Ontario during the nineteenth century. My dissertation project is a continuation of my Masters’ research (African-Canadian temperance), but there is a focus on additional organizations such literary societies, fraternal orders and Sunday school groups. The latter organization will allow me to demonstrate the presence and importance of youth involvement. During the research phase, I am working under the supervision of Dr. James Walker and I am certain that my fields of ‘Race,’ Slavery and Imperialism (with Dr. James Walker), Canadian History (Dr. Susan Neylan) and History of the United States, Pre 1877 (Dr. Richard Reid) will enhance my understanding of African-Canadian History.

Publications:

• Bridgen, Lorene. “On Their Own Terms: Temperance in Southern Ontario’s Black Community (1830-1860).” Ontario History 101: 1 (Spring 2009):64-82.

Presentations:

• “A Membership for Manhood: Masculine Cultures in African-Canadian Organizations.” 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, University of New Brunswick, 29 May to 1 June 2011.
• “‘Lifting As We Climb’: African-Canadian Organizations in Southern Ontario During the Nineteenth Century.” The Promised Land Project 2011 Public Symposium, Revisiting the Promise: Time, Place and Contested Space in African Canadian Communities, Black Cultural Centre (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia), 6-7 May 2011.
• “‘Lifting As We Climb’: African-Canadian Organizations in Amherstburg During the Nineteenth Century.” 2011 Freedom Landing Festival Conference, North American Black Historical Museum, Amherstburg, Ontario, 29 January 2011.
• “Women and Children First: The Role of Black Women and Children in Southwestern Ontario’s Temperance Movement, 1840-1897.” The Promised Land Project 2010 Public Symposium, African Canadian History in Southwestern Ontario: Connecting Past and Present, University of Windsor, 5-6 March 2010.
• “More Than An Alternative: Temperance in Southern Ontario’s Black Community.” 2010 Freedom Landing Festival Conference, North American Black Historical Museum, Amherstburg, Ontario, 16 January 2010.
• “Making a Choice?: Temperance As Authority in Southern Ontario’s Black Community, 1830-1890.” 2009 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, 25-27 May, 2009.
• “(In)temperate in Temperate Times: African-Canadian Temperance in Southwestern Ontario.” 13th Annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, 19-21 February 2009.
• “Gender in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Ontario’s Temperance Movement.” 9th Annual Feminist Research Group Conference, University of Windsor, 22-24 May 2008.
• “The Division Within: Ideologies in the nineteenth-century Black Community in Canada.” The New Directions in History Conference for the Humanities Research Group Graduate Student Conference, University of Windsor, 12 April 2007.