Richard Webb

Assistant Professor

History
Humanities and Social Sciences

I am an assistant professor of History with Laurentian University in Barrie. My fields of expertise include early-modern and modern British history, Canadian history, and the history of the Americas from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. Along with my co-author Geoff Read, I have completed several studies dealing with the portrayal of Louis Riel and the Métis resistance in Western Canada in the international press. In addition, I am researching and writing articles on Methodism and anti-Catholicism in nineteenth-century Canada and Britain; religion in the antebellum American South; the life and posthumous reputation of the nineteenth-century Southern politician and states' rights advocate, John Randolph of Roanoke; the British singer Gracie Fields' tour of Canada during the Second World War; and the spiritual life of Mabel Loomis Todd, the first editor of Emily Dickinson's poems. I am also engaged in two larger projects: a book entitled 'Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec' and a narrative history of the rebellions of 1837-8 in Lower and Upper Canada.