Dr. Jonathan Franklin Vance
Fellow
Current Employer
Western University
Election Year
2008
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
History
Department
Department of History
Keywords
War, Culture, Commemoration, Aviation, Nationalism
Long Citation (for publication and press release)
Jonathan F. Vance has emerged as one of Canada's most prolific and widely-read historians. His work on the First World War, aviation, national building projects, prisoners of war, and social memory crosses disciplinary boundaries to embrace history, cultural studies, communications theory, geography, and sociology, and has been praised for its originality. The author of the award-winning Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War, Vance has opened new fields of enquiry on diverse subjects, from Remembrance Day to rural mail delivery, and has had a profound influence on the next generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony)
Jonathan Vance has emerged as one of Canada's most prolific and widely-read historians. His work on the First World War, aviation, national building projects, prisoners of war, and social memory crosses disciplinary boundaries to embrace history, cultural studies, communications theory, geography, and sociology, and has been praised for its originality. His work has had a profound influence on the next generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Jonathan F. Vance has emerged as one of Canada's most prolific and widely-read historians. His work on the First World War, aviation, national building projects, prisoners of war, and social memory crosses disciplinary boundaries to embrace history, cultural studies, communications theory, geography, and sociology, and has been praised for its originality. The author of the award-winning Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War, Vance has opened new fields of enquiry on diverse subjects, from Remembrance Day to rural mail delivery, and has had a profound influence on the next generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony)
Jonathan Vance has emerged as one of Canada's most prolific and widely-read historians. His work on the First World War, aviation, national building projects, prisoners of war, and social memory crosses disciplinary boundaries to embrace history, cultural studies, communications theory, geography, and sociology, and has been praised for its originality. His work has had a profound influence on the next generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.