Dr. John Meehan, SJ, Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies
Dr. John Meehan, SJ
Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies
B.A. Hons. (McGill), Dip.Theol. (Oxford), M.A. (Johns Hopkins-SAIS), M.Div. (Toronto), STB (Regis), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Phone: (306) 359-1240
Email: john.meehan@uregina.ca
Research Interests
History of Canadian foreign relations; Canadian relations with East Asia; Asia Pacific studies; Jesuit history; history of Christianity in Asia.
Recent Publications
Books
Chasing the Dragon: Shanghai and Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011.
Nikka kankei shi, 1929-1941: Sensou ni mukau nihon kanada no shiza kara [The History of Japanese-Canadian Relations, 1929-1941: Canadian Perspectives on Japan’s Drift toward War], trans. by Kenki Adachi, Kunihiro Haraguchi and Toshihiro Tanaka, Tokyo: Sairyusha Press, 2006.
The Dominion and the Rising Sun: Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-1941, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award, Canadian embassy, Tokyo, 2006.
With Jacques Monet, S.J. et al., Dictionary of Canadian Jesuit Biography, vol. II (1987-2004), Toronto: Canadian Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2006.
Articles
“Un ilot de refuge: la “Zone Jacquinot” et la guerre a Shanghai, 1937” in Shenwen Li, ed., Chine / Europe / Amérique: Rencontres et échanges de Marco Polo a nos jours, Quebec City: Presses de l’université Laval, 2009.
“Herbert Marler: The Tokyo Legation and Canada's Pacific Debut, 1929-1936” in Greg Donaghy and Kim Nossal, eds., Architects and Innovators: Building the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.
With David Webster, “From King to Kandahar: Canada, Multilateralism and Conflict in the Pacific, 1909-2009” in Canada Among Nations 2008, Ottawa: Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, 2009.
“Pacific Beginnings: Canada and Japan between the Wars, 1929-1941” in Greg Donaghy and Patricia Roy, eds., Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the 20th Century, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
“The Savior of Shanghai: Robert Jacquinot, SJ and his safety zone at Shanghai, 1937”, Company magazine, March 2006: 17-21.
‘Steering Clear of Great Britain: Canada’s Debate over Collective Security in the Far Eastern Crisis of 1937’, International History Review, xxv, 2 (June 2003): 253-81.
Other Academic Activities
Historical expert, CBC Series “Love, War and Propaganda” (on Radio Canada, “Amour, Haine et Propaganda”) (Spring 2010)
Borsista [Research fellow], Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome (Fall 2009)
Editorial Team, Special Centenary Edition, Canada Among Nations 2008
Guest Lecturer, Kobe University, Cultural Personalities Exchange Programme (February 2008)
Member, Alpha Sigma Nu Honours Society (2008- )
Member, Senior Common Room, Trinity College, University of Toronto (2006-2009)
Academic Don (History/International Relations), Trinity College, University of Toronto (1997-2000)
Languages
English, French, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, some Italian and Latin.