Claude Couture, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Intellectual and social history colonialism Canada British Empire French colonialism India linguistic rights utilitarianism

About

Claude Couture was professor of social sciences and Canadian Studies, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. After his PhD at the Université de Montréal, he came to Edmonton in the 1980s. He retired in 2020 after four decades at the U of A. He was director of the Canadian Studies Institute of Campus Saint-Jean/University of Alberta from 2000 to 2010. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year as Fulbright Professor at the Jackson School of the University of Washington in Seattle. He received the Rutherford Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching from the University of Alberta in 2006, a Killam Professorship in 2007-2008 and the CAFA Distinguished Academic Award in 2008. He was awarded the University Cup of the University of Alberta in 2009. In 2014, he was awarded the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies which is intended for a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to scholarship and to the development of Canadian Studies internationally. 

Research

His research interests were in the area of intellectual and social history. He is the author or co-author of fifteen books including: Britannicité. Présence française dans l'empire britannique au cours du long XIXe siècle, Québec, PUL, 2020; Sports, modernité, et réseaux impériaux. Nap Lajoie, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhi, baseball et cricket au tournant du XXe siècle, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2017; Vingt ans après Charlottetown. L’ordre libéral colonial au Canada, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013; La nation et son double. Essais sur les discours postcoloniaux au Canada, PUL, 2012; Tisser des liens entre Canadiens, Québec, PUL, 2011; Récits du XIXème du siècle. Structure et contenu du discours historiographique au Canada au XIXe siècle, Québec, PUL, 2009; Discours d’Étienne Parent, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000; Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent and Canadian Liberalism, University of Alberta Press, 1998; Espace et différences. Histoire du Canada, PUL, 1996. He has also published extensively in academic journals and chapters in edited books. 

Last book:

https://www.pulaval.com/produit/britannicite-essai-sur-la-presence-francaise-dans-l-empire-britannique-au-xixe-siecle