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Faculty Profile
McGowan, Mark, Ph.D. Toronto
Professor and Principal, St. George Campus
(416) 926-7102
Office: OH 127
Field: Religious, social, migration and education history
Specialist in the religious, social, migration, and educational history of Canada. Co-editor of the award-winning books Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto (1992) and The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (McGill-Queen’s 1999); Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen’s, 2005); he has recently completed a revisionist work on the Irish Famine migration to Canada (for the CHA Canadian Ethnic Groups Series) and a short book for the Ireland Park Foundation: “A Calamity to the Province”: The Irish Famine Migration of 1847 and Toronto. He is currently researching the creation of historical memory within the Irish Diaspora and a new book on the history of the Catholic Church in Canada from 1900 to 1960. A recipient of two University Teaching Awards, he is currently Principal of St. Michael’s College.
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