Paul Litt
Professor
Arts and Social Sciences
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Paul Litt teaches and publishes on late twentieth-century Canada with special interests in public history, cultural policy, Canadian nationalism and the 1960s. His current research project, “Motoring into Upper Canada,” is a study of the origins and development of the Ontario heritage establishment in the 1950s and 1960s. Paul has worked as a public historian for the Ontario Heritage Foundation and as a freelance historian leading research teams that produced histories for corporations and public agencies. He also has policy experience in different roles at the Ontario Ministry of Culture. Paul is cross-appointed between the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and the Department of History at Carleton.
Research Interest
Cultural nationalism and cultural policy Post-Confederation Canadian cultural, media and political history Public history and memory, with a focus on post-1945 Ontario Media and politics
Publications
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Isotopes and Innovation: MDS Nordion’s First Fifty Years, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press for MDS Nordion, 2000, pp. 249.
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Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011, pp. 536.
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Trudeaumania,Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016, pp. 424.
