Research Interests
Dr. Rainer Baehre

Primary Appointment: History, Division of Arts (GC)
Cross Appointment: Social & Cultural Studies, Division of Social Science (GC)

Keywords: British North America; Migration history; Ethnohistory; Social welfare history; History of moral regulation and the body; Legal, medical, ethnographical and social history; Folk art and history; Shipwreck and cultural history

Current Research

• Imperial and Colonial State Formation, British Immigration, and the Underclass in Upper Canada 1828-1841
• Social Crisis in Newfoundland, 1815-1821
• Local Knowledge and the History of the Humber River Basin Region
• Ethnography and Identity: An Oral History of Crow Gulch
• A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, especially on the Labrador and Newfoundland coasts
• Nineteenth-century Anthropological and Ethnological Constructions of the Inuit

Future Research

• The Hague Tribunal and the American Fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Aspects of the History of Western Newfoundland

Recent Research

• Psychiatry and society in Ontario, 1800-1921
• History of nineteenth century Canadian penitentiaries
• Poverty, pauper emigration and the workhouse in the nineteenth century
• Medicine, epidemics and social issues in Upper Canada
• Shipwreck narratives, culture, and social history in Newfoundland
• Legal strategy and executive powers during the Upper Canadian rebellion
• The Folk Art of Bond Penney: Logging and Working-Class Culture in Western Newfoundland, 1939-1946