Gregory Kennedy is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. A historian of early Canada and particularly of New France and the French Atlantic World, Kennedy has published two monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. His first book, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), was awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize for the best scholarly book on Atlantic Canadian history and is also available in French with Septentrion (2021). His second book is Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024). He also co-directed a collection of essays in French entitled Repenser l’Acadie dans le monde (forthcoming, December 2024). A second collection of essays in English, Military Service and Society in Atlantic Canada Communities, is forthcoming in 2025 or 2026. His current research focuses on mobility, migration, and military service in French Canada, contributing to a SSHRC-funded partnership project Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord.

Repenser l’Acadie dans le monde | McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup.ca) 

Lost in the Crowd | McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup.ca)

Something of a Peasant Paradise? | McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup.ca)