Cecilia Morgan is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Her research interests are in nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Canada, with a particular focus on Canada as part of imperial and transnational worlds, and in the histories of gender and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Her more recent publications include Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022), Travelers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017); Building Better Britains? Settler Societies Within the British Empire, 1783-1920 (U of Toronto Press, 2017); Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory (U of Toronto Press, 2016); and “A Happy Holiday”: English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 (U of Toronto Press, 2007).
Morgan has been the co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review, associate editor for the Journal of British Studies, and section editor, nineteenth-century North America, for History Compass Journal. Her article comes out of a SSHRC-funded project on settler families, imperial and transnational connections, and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Ontario.
