Nicholas May
Term Lecturer
Office: AQ 6012
Email: nicholas_may@sfu.ca
Areas of Study: Americas; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Religion; Environment
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
Biography
I am an anthropological historian of Indigenous cultures in Canada. My focus to date has been on religious and cultural transformation in British Columbia, and this interest led me to work with the Nisga鈥檃 to write a history of their encounter with Protestant mission Christianities. My dissertation, 鈥淔easting on the Aam of Heaven: The Christianization of the Nisga鈥檃, 1860-1920,鈥� won the John Bullen Prize in 2014 for the most outstanding PhD thesis on an historical topic submitted at a Canadian university, and is being prepared for publication with University of British Columbia Press. I arrived at 大象传媒 in 2021 after teaching at UBC, McGill, and the University of Toronto.
Research Interests
Americas; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Religion; Environment
Articles and Chapters
- 鈥淔reeman, Barnabas Cortland (Barnard, Courtland).鈥� In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16 (2019).
- 鈥淢arching to the Beat of a Newer Drum: Cultural Continuity and Revival in Nisga鈥檃 Church Armies, 1894-1970.鈥� Ethnohistory 62, no. 4 (October 2015): 781-801.
Awards and Grants
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2016-2018
- John Bullen Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2014
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-2007