Jennifer Hayter

Biography

Jennifer Hayter is PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto. She is currently studying Canadian indigenous history with Professor Heidi Bohaker. Research interests include ideologies of race, gender and the family, particularly the cultural and intellectual foundations of identity regimes. Her dissertation examines laws, policies and everyday state activities to reveal how the Canadian state understood and categorized the Métis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jennifer Hayter is PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto. She is currently studying Canadian indigenous history with Professor Heidi Bohaker. Research interests include ideologies of race, gender and the family, particularly the cultural and intellectual foundations of identity regimes. Her dissertation examines laws, policies and everyday state activities to reveal how the Canadian state understood and categorized the Métis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Research Interest

history