Researcher
Ben Lander
Department of History
Expertise
Dr. Ben Lander earned his聽聽Ph.D in History at York University in Toronto, Ontario on the subject of WWII and popular memory. 聽His current research is focused on Montreal history and the application聽of oral history as a pedagogical tool. With聽his colleague Mark Beauchamp, Ben created the. 聽In 2014 Ben Lander and Mark Beauchamp secured two years of funding from the FQRSC Projets Novateurs for their research. Ben is also a very well loved and respected faculty member who has been nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award.
Contributions to Dawson鈥檚 Community:
was launched by Ben Lander and his colleague Mark Beauchamp. It is a pedagogical project where the principal aims are to train Dawson students in the methodology and practice of oral history, and to establish an archive of community voices that will be available to generations of future researchers. Ben is also a member of .
Publications
- 聽Lander, B. (2005). Graphic Novels as History: Representing and Reliving the Past. Left History, 10(2).
