J. F. (john) Conway

Biography

Dr. Conway is a Professor of Sociology, and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Studies, at the University of Regina. He has B.A. (Honours) and M.A. degrees in psychology and social psychology and a Ph.D. in political sociology. In 1986-87 he studied the French language at the Bilingual Centre of the University of Regina and in the Fall of 1987, at Laval University. He is the author of three books, The West: The History of a Region in Confederation (first edition, 1984; second edition, 1994; third edition, 2006; fourth edition published as The Rise of the New West: The History of a Region in Confederation, 2014); The Canadian Family in Crisis (first edition, 1990; second edition, 1993; third edition, 1997; fourth edition, 2001; fifth edition, 2003), and Debts to Pay: English Canada and Quebec from the Conquest to the Referendum (first edition, 1992), Des comptes à rendre: Le Canada anglais et le Québec, de la Conquête à l'accord de Charlottetown (1995), Debts to Pay: A Fresh Approach to the Quebec Question, (second edition, 1997), and Debts to Pay: The Future of Federalism in Quebec, (third edition, 2004); and of monographs on the place of the Prairies in Confederation and on the re-emergence of separatist sentiment in Western Canada during the early 1980s. He has also published numerous reviews and articles and authored a number of scholarly papers. His academic interests encompass the social sciences in general while his research interests have tended to focus on the social, political and economic history of both the West and Quebec in Confederation, as well as gender relations and the crisis of the modern family.

Research Interest

Dr. Conway research interests: Canadian political economy; historical development of Canadian capitalism; political sociology; Quebec/English Canada conflicts; the West in Confederation; agrarian populism; social movements; family and gender