University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Len Kuffert
Len Kuffert


Professor

Office: 222 St. John's College
e-mail: Len.Kuffert@umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-8106
personal webpage

EDUCATION

Ph.D., McMaster University
M.A., University of British Columbia
B.A.(Hons.) and B.Ed., University of Saskatchewan
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural history of 20th century Canada, history of broadcasting and print media; history of hobbies and leisure, especially woodworking.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy, (Montreal and Kingston:McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016)

"'needful supervision'; Talks and taste on Canadian radio," Canadian Journal of Media Studies 10 (June 2012).

"Tempest in the Tea Leaves: Broadcasting the esoteric arts and mystic sciences, 1937-53," Canadian Historical Review 91 (1) (March 2010) 1-26.

“‘What do you expect of this friend?’: Canadian radio and the intimacy of broadcasting,” Media History 15(3) (August 2009): 303-319.
“The Privileges of Democracy: defending Culture in wartime Canada,” in Muriel Chamberlain and Andrew Hiscock, eds., Engaging the Enemy: Canada in the 1940s (Ammanford, Wales: Dinewfr Press, 2006)
A Great Duty:Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).
"'stabbing our spirits broad awake': Reconstructing Canadian Culture, 1940-1948", in Christie and Gauvreau, eds., Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).
"'Reckoning with the Machine': The British Columbia Social Credit Movement as Social Criticism, 1932-1952", BC Studies 124 (Winter 1999/2000): 9-39.

COURSES TAUGHT

2020-2021
HIST 1440 History of Canada

2019-2020
HIST 1400 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 3250 (Term 2) Canada and the World 1867 to the Present
HIST 4000/7772 History of Broadcasting in the Anglophone World

2018-2019
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885

2017-2018
HIST 2286 Modern Canada

2016-2017
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 3250 Canada and the World 1867 to the Present
HIST 4280/7670 Topics in the Cultural History of Canada

2015-2016
HIST 1390 Colonial Canada, 1500-1885
HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method and Historiography

2014-2015
HIST 1400 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 1440 History of Canada
HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method & Historiography