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CURRICULUM VITAE – Dr. JAMES E. MORAN

Institutional Address:

Dr. James E. Moran

Associate Professor, History Department
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue, Charlottetown
PE, Canada, C1A 4P3
Phone: (902) 566-0493, Fax: (902) 628-4323
Email. jmoran@upei.ca

Post-Secondary Education:

1998 Ph.D. - York University, History

Dissertation Title: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century
Ontario and Quebec

1991 M.A. - York University, History

1990 B.A. - Glendon College, York University

History/Canadian Studies

1986 American University of Athens, Greece (Deree College)

History (Years I and II of Bachelors Degree)

Academic Publications:

Books:
Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity, the Asylum and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
and Quebec (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2001, 226p).

with David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (Montreal:
McGill Queen’s University Press, 2006).

with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and the Built
Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007).

Refereed Articles
‘The Architecture of Madness: Informal and Formal Spaces of Treatment and Care in Nineteenth-
Century New Jersey’, in Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Psychiatric Spaces:
Architecture and the Built Environment, 1600-2000 (Routledge, 2007), 153-172.

with Leslie Topp, ‘Interpreting Psychiatric Spaces’, in Leslie Topp, James Moran and
Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric
Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007), 1-17.

with David Wright, ‘Introduction’, in James Moran and David Wright (eds.) Mental
Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University
Press, 2006), 3-18.
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‘Power Failure? Power and the New Social History of Madness’, in Jean-Marie Fecteau eds.
Agency and Institutions in Social Regulation (Québec: Les Presses de l’université de Québec,
2005), 20pp.

‘Madness, Gender and Sexuality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Jersey’, History and

Philosophy of Psychology, 16, 1, 2004, 10-18.

with David Wright and Mat Savelli, ‘The Lunatic Fringe: Households and the Regulation of Mad
Behaviour in Victorian Canada’ in Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie eds. On the Margins of
the Family (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2004), 277-304.

with David Wright and Sean Gouglas, ‘The Confinement of the Mad in Victorian Canada’, in
Roy Porter and David Wright eds., The Confinement of the Insane, 1800-1965 : International
Perspectives (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003), 175-222.

‘The Signal and the Noise: The Historical Epidemiology of Insanity in Antebellum New Jersey’,
History of Psychiatry, 14, 3 (2003), 281-301.

‘Dangerous to be at Large? folie et criminalité au Québec et en Ontario au 19e siècle’,

Bulletin d`histoire politique, 10, 2002, 15-22.

‘The Ethics of Farming-Out: Medicine, Ideology and Asylum Provision in Nineteenth-

Century Quebec’, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 15, 1998, 297-317.

‘Asylum in the Community: Managing the Insane in Antebellum America’, History of Psychiatry,
9, 1998, 217-40.

‘Keepers of the Insane: The Role of Attendants at the Toronto Provincial Asylum, 1875-
1905’, Histoire sociale/Social History, 28, 1995, 51-75.

Teaching

I teach a range of subjects in the history of Canada and North America including social history,
the history of Quebec, historiography, health history, the history of madness, and nationalism and
identity.

Recent Funding and Research

I am currently writing a book based on SSHRC funding that explores the history of civil law and
mental health in trans-Atlantic perspective.