Biography
BA, MA, PhD (York)
Associate Professor; Chair, History
James Moran teaches courses in Canadian History, the history of Quebec, historiography, and the history of health and medicine in North America. His publications include: Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario (2000); with David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2006); and with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.) Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007). He is currently writing a book on madness and civil law in England and the United States.
Recent Publications
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Madness on trial
- Manchester University Press, 2019
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Introduction: the historical borderlands of health and mobility
- Histoire sociale/Social history, 2019
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Mad migrants and the reach of English civil law
- Migration and mental health, 2016
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Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800-1870
- Work therapy, psychiatry and society, c. 1750 – 2010, 2016
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Mental disorder and criminality in Canada
- International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2014
Research Classification
- no classification
Research Interests
- History of mental illness
Current Scholars in History
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