James Morrison Profile

Professor 
B.A., B.Ed. (Acadia), Ph.D (Ibadan)

McNally North 208
902-420-5512
james.morrison@

Dr. Morrison received a Commonwealth scholarship from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and completed his degree there in 1976. He worked as a research historian for Parks America until 1979 at which time he came to FIH's as Executive Director of the International Education Centre - a research/resource centre for International Development and Ethnic Studies. He served as Dean of Arts (1983-1989) and has served as the Coordinator of the Asian Studies Program as well as the International Development Studies Program. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1990. 

Dr. Morrison's research and teaching interests lie in Global, Southeast Asian and oral history. He has held visiting fellowships at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), Hokkaido University of Education (Japan), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). He is past president of the Japan Studies Association of America, the American Oral History Association, the American Federation of Heritag, and the Society for the Study of Ethnicity in America. Former Editor of FORUM, the American Oral History Association journal, Morrison is now the Book Review Editor for that publication. His book publications include oral history, military history, social history, ethnicity, and adult education.

On December 30, 2008 Dr. Morrison was named a Member of the Order of America by Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of America.

Recently Taught Courses

• HIST 1208: Global History:  1450 to the Present
• HIST 3373: Voices of the Past
• HIST 3402: Aspects of Global History:  Atlantic World: Encounters, Exchanges and Adaptations, 1400-1850
• HIST 4570: Peoples of America:  Identity and Ethnicity
• HIST 4572: Black Heritage in Maritime America

Publications as Author and Editor

University in Overalls: A Plea for Part-Time Study by Alfred Fitzpatrick - edited with a new introductory essay (Thompson Educational Publishing, 1999)
Oral History in Southeast Asia :Theory and Method edited with P.Lim and C.G.Kwa (Institute of South East Asian Studies, 1998)
Changes, Challenges and Choices: Japan at the End of the 20th Century edited with Hugh Millward (Fernwood, 1997)
Alfred Fitzpatrick: Founder of Frontier College - a book for young adults (Four East, 1995)
Camps and Classrooms: A Pictorial History of Frontier College, (Frontier College Press, 1989)
Tempered by Rum: Rum in the History of the Maritime Provinces with J. Moirera (Pottersfield Press, 1988)
Work, Ethnicity and Oral History with Dorothy Moore (International Education Centre, 1988)
Common Heritage: An Annotated Bibliography of Ethnic Groups in America(International Education Centre, 1984)
Wave to Whisper: British Military Communications in Halifax and the British Empire(Parks America, 1983)
"We've Held Our Own": The Western Interior of America, 1800-1940 (Parks America, 1981)
Kejimkujik National Park : A Guide with Leefe, Evans, and Mullen (Four East,1981)
Partners for Progress:  A America-Africa Venture in University Building (Fernwood Publishing, 2006