Scott W. See

I taught graduate and undergraduate courses on a variety of Canadian, American, and Canadian-American topics at the University of Maine. Before coming to UM in 1997, I was on the faculty of the University of Vermont for twelve years. While at UVM, I received the University’s Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching and served as Acting Director of the Canadian Studies Program. During 2013-2014 I was Fulbright Research Chair at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and from 1995-1996 I was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the National Archives and National Library of Canada in Ottawa. I received a Senior Fellowship from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. for 2001-2005. I sat on the editorial boards of Acadiensis and The American Review of Canadian Studies. I served on the Board of Directors of the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada at St. Mary’s University and on the Executive Council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. My research interests include social and political conflict in Canada, as well as the history of the borderlands region of New England, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. I served as chair of the University of Maine History Department from 2003 to 2008, and I was the first Director of the University of Maine Humanities Center from 2010 to 2012.

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• The History of Canada. First Edition: Greenwood Press, 2001; Second Edition: Grey House Publishing, 2010.

• Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749-1876, eds. Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See. University of Toronto Press, 2019.

• Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s. University of Toronto Press, 1993; second printing, 1999.

• “A Tumultuous Decade: Elections in British North America During the 1840s.” Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Andrew Robertson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800-1910. Oxford University Press, 2026.

• “The Intellectual Construction of Canada’s ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ Ideal.” Journal of Canadian Studies 52. Spring, 2018, pp. 510-37.

• “Orange Loyalism in British North America.” Allan Blackstock and Frank O’Gorman, eds. Loyalism and the Formation of the British World. Boydwell & Brewer, 2014, pp. 181-99.

• “Variations on a Borderlands Theme: Nativism and Collective Violence in Northeastern North America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid, eds. New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.

• “‘An Unprecedented Influx’: Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada.” Margaret M. Mulrooney, ed. Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851. Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 59-78.

• “Rethinking 1849: Collective Conflict in British North America.” Derek Pollard and Ged Martin, eds. Canada 1849.  University of Edinburgh, Centre of Canadian Studies, 2001, pp. 209-23.

• “Nineteenth-Century Collective Violence: Toward a North American Context.” Labour/Le Travail 39.  Spring, 1997, pp. 1-26.

• “‘Mickies and Demons’ vs. ‘Bigots and Boobies’:  The Woodstock Riot of 1847.” Acadiensis 21.  Autumn, 1991, pp. 110-31.

• “Polling Crowds and Social Violence:  New Brunswick’s ‘Fighting Elections’ of 1842-43.” The Canadian Historical Review 72.  June, 1991, pp. 127-56.

Work in Progress

Book manuscript:  Affront to Peace and Order: Collective Violence in Nineteenth-Century Canada. University of Toronto Press. [under contract]