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Hannah M. Lane

Hart Hall, 63D York Street
Mount Allison University
Sackville, NB, Canada
E4L 1G9
Tel: 506-364-2318
E-mail: hlane@mta.ca

Honorary Research Associate
Department of History/School of Graduate Studies
Tilley Hall, 9 Macauley Lane,
University of New Brunswick
Fredricton, NB, Canada
E3B 5A3

Appointments

Associate Professor, Department of History, Mount Allison University, July 2006 -

Education

• 2004 - Ph.D. 'With Distinction' University of New Brunswick
  Dissertation title: "Methodist Church Members, Lay Leaders, and Socio-economic Position in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New Brunswick"
  
• 1993 - M.A. 'With Distinction' University of New Brunswick
  Thesis Title: "Re-numbering Souls: Lay Methodism and Church Growth in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 1861 - 1881"
• 1980 - B.A. University of Toronto - History ('With Distinction')

Awards

• Mount Allison
  SSHRC Aid to Small Universities "Small Communities" Award - Faculty Grant, 2012
  Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fund Conference Travel Grant 2010
  Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fund Conference Travel Grant 2008
  Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fund Start up Grant 2006

• University of New Brunswick
  Bronfman Fellowship
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (four years)
  Hugh John Flemming Fellowship in Maritime History
  Merit Assistantship and Gale-Shaw History Prize
  

Research

• Refereed Articles

  "Evangelical Churches and Freemasonry in Mid-nineteenth Century Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick", Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2 (2011), 60-78

  "Revivalism, Historians, and Lived Religion in the Eastern Canada -United States borderlands", in Kate
  Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, eds. Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, Studies in
  Church History, 44 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2008), 251-61

  "Evangelicals, Church Finance, and Wealth-Holding in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New
  Brunswick, and Calais, Maine", in Michael Gauvreau and Ollivier Hubert eds. The Churches
  and Social Order in Nineteenth-and Twentieth Century Canada (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-
  Queen's University Press, 2006), 109-50

  "Tribalism, Proselytism, and Pluralism: Protestants, Family, and Denominational Identity in Mid-
  Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New Brunswick", in Nancy Christie ed. Households of Faith:
  Family, Gender, and Community in Canada 1760-1969 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's
  University Press, 2002), 103-37

  "'Wife, Mother, Sister, Friend': Methodist Women in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 1861-1881", in Janet
  Guildford & Suzanne Morton eds. Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th Century
  Maritimes (Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1994), 93-117

• Commissioned articles

  "Diversity Within a Common Religious Culture", Our Diverse Cities, (Ottawa : Metropolis Project with
  the Association for Canadian Studies and Federation of Canadian Municipalities, No. 3 Summer
  2007), 161-64

  "‘The Pence of the Poor and the Pounds of the Rich': Methodist Church Finance and Wealth-holding in
  Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New Brunswick", Papers: 1997 and 1998 (Toronto:
  Canadian Methodist Historical Society, 1999), 90-116

  "Alexander McKnight", Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XII (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
  1990), 659-60

Book Reviews

• Review of Gordon Heath, War with a silver lining : Canadian protestant churches and the South
  African War, 1899-1902, Canadian Historical Review 92,2 (2011),363-65

• Review of John Kent, Wesley and the Wesleyans, Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society,
  2003 45(1), 97-100

• Review of J. I. Little, Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836, Historical
  Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, 25,1 (Spring 2003), 158-61

• Review of Dale A. Johnson, The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925, Canadian
  Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire XXXVI, August/août 2001, 375-77
  
  

Proposed Next Conference Papers

• "Denominational identity/ies and the family in mid-nineteenth century New Brunswick, Canada" Accepted for "Religion and the Household": the 51st Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Bangor, Wales, 18-21 July 2012

• "Irish immigrants in a Maine-New Brunswick borderlands community", Accepted for "The Irish in New England", Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Deerfield, MA, 22-24 June 2012

Papers delivered at Refereed Conferences

• "Freemasonry and denominational identity/ies in nineteenth century Maine and southern New Brunswick". The 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, University of New Brunswick - Saint John, New Brunswick, 4-6 May 2012

• "Maine and New Brunswick freemasons and contested political geographies,1770 - 1870",
  3rd International Conference on the History of Freemasonry Alexandria, Virginia, 27-29 May 2011

• "Wealth-holding and the life course in mid-nineteenth century St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais
  and Baring, Maine", part of a panel with Gail Campbell, University of New Brunswick, " Till Death Us
  Do Part: Widows and Widowers in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1845-75",
  Eight page precis posted in May: http://www.ciqss.umontreal.ca/fcd2010/programme_en.html
  Longer version: Understanding the Populations of the Past: New Developments and
  Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Canadian Population Society, the Canadian Federation of
  Demographers, and the Canadian Historical Association), 1-2 June 2010, Concordia University,
  Montreal, PQ

• "Freemasonry and identity/ies in nineteenth century New Brunswick and eastern Maine", Symposium on
  American Freemasonry and Fraternalism, National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Mass., 9 April
  2010

• "Evangelical churches and freemasonry in Washington County, Maine and Charlotte County, New
  Brunswick", Men, God and the Churches: Conflicts in Christianity and Masculinity, session
  organized by Lynne Marks (University of Victoria); Organization of American Historians, Hilton
  New York , 27-30 March 2008

• "Revivalism, Historians, and Lived Religion in the Eastern Canada -United States borderlands", Summer
  Conference, Ecclesiastical History Society, University of Cardiff, 19-22 July 2006

• "From ‘repulsive looking grave-yards' to the ‘City of the Dead': the Rural Cemetery Movement in
  Southern New Brunswick", North Eastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  Conference - The Eighteenth Century Everyday: Remembrance and Representation, University
  of New Brunswick, 30 September - 2 October 2005

• "Congregations in the Atlantic Region", Roundtable on Religion, Gender, and Class in Canadian History,
  Canadian Historical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, May 2003

• "Devouring the Mother? Gender, Piety, and the Religious Critique of Mid-Nineteenth Century Economic
  Life"; Canadian Historical Association, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, June 1999

• "Tribalism, Proselytism and Pluralism: Protestant Families and Denominational Identity in St. Stephen,
  New Brunswick, 1861-1871"; 10th Annual Church History Workshop (Anglican Diocese of
  Fredericton, University of New Brunswick, and the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick),
  Fredericton, NB, May 1997

• "'The Church of His Choice': Lay Protestantism and Denominational Identity in St. Stephen, New
  Brunswick, 1841-1871"; Popular Religion in English Canada (I was also the organizer of this
  session); Canadian Historical Association, Brock University, St. Catherine's, ON, 1996

• "'Wife, Mother, Sister, Friend': Methodist Women in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 1861-1881"; Atlantic
  Canada Workshop, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, 1991

Other Conference Papers or Presentations

• "Freemasonry and identity/ies in nineteenth century New Brunswick and eastern Maine", Works in
  Progress, Mount Allison University, April 2010

• "Methodist Church Finance and Wealth-holding in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New
  Brunswick"; commissioned for the Canadian Methodist Historical Society, Atlantic Theological
  School, Halifax, NS, June 1998

• "'Wooden Comb Gentry' or 'Man of Business': the Clerk in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Stephen, New
  Brunswick and Calais, Maine"; Symposium in Atlantic Regional History in honour of T. W.
  Acheson, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, November 1997

• "Matthew Richey Knight: ‘A Canadian First and Always'"; Printing and Publishing in Atlantic Canada,
  1751-1987--the Fifth Annual Anchorage Symposium, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB,
  1987

Projects

• "Fraternalism in New Brunswick and eastern Maine, 1770-1881" (current research)

• "Lived Religion in a Maine-New Brunswick borderlands community, 1831-1881" (book project and
  articles)

• "St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais and Baring, Maine, 1850-1881" (census database for eventual public use)

• "South-eastern New Brunswick censuses, 1851 and 1861" - SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Small Communities" Award - Faculty Grant, Summer 2012

• "Death and Dying in New Brunswick and eastern Maine, 1760s-1880s" (next research project)

Teaching

• Mount Allison University - Courses taught or scheduled

  North American or Comparative History

  History 1601 New Nations in North America.
  History 3511 Colonial America in an Atlantic World
  History 3801 Birth to Death: Life Course and Family History

  Mainly Canadian content

  History 2410 Canada from Contact to the Present
  History 2411 Canada to 1871
  History 3401 The Atlantic Region
  History/Religious Studies 3481 Religion in Canada
  History 3491 Immigration in Canadian History
  History 4420 The Atlantic Provinces

  Mount Allison University - Independent Studies courses or Honours students

  History 4990 - 2011/12 - Stephanie Mawdsley, "Child Labour in the Coal Mines of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, 1850-1923", Honours Thesis
  History 4951 - Fall 2011 - Migration, demography, and cultural history: 19th and early 20th century Maritime families in comparative context
  History 4990 - 2010/11 - Julie Pellerin - "Acadian and Mi'kmaq Relations", Honours thesis
  History 4951 - Winter 2011 - "New France and aboriginal peoples"
  History 4990 - 2009/10 - Stephen R.I. Smith, ""We stood our ground manfully": The Rise of the Patriot Hunters and Frères Chasseurs in the Aftermath of the Upper and Lower Canadian Rebellions, 1837-38", Honours Thesis
  History 4951 - Fall 2008 - Life-Writing, Oral History, and Canadian Women during World War II
  

  Mount Allison University -Potential course offerings, if needed in rotation with other instructors

  History 3901 Historical Research and Writing Methods
  History 4911 Writing History

  University of New Brunswick

  English 1013 Fundamentals of Clear Writing
  Fine Arts 3796 History of Music in Canada
  History 3765 Music in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
  History 3775 Music in the Baroque and Classical Periods
  History 3785 Music in Western Europe 1790 - 1914
  History 3322 Religion in Canada 1600 -1970
  History 3316 Canadian Immigration History
  History 3321 Canadian Colonial Society
  History 4321 Canadian and American Rural History

  St. Thomas University

  History 2886 Canadian Women's History

Service

University Service

Academic Appeals Committee 2010+
Admissions and Readmissions Committee 2008-2010
Employment Equity Panel Fall 2011 - Summer 2012
Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Committee, 2010+
Research and Ethics Board 2008-2010

Departmental Service

Coordinator, booth and display at university open house 2007+, Course fair 2008-2009
Subcommittee on proposed courses in historiography, theory or methods 2008-09
Faculty liason with Student History Society 2009+

Other Professional Service

"Sackville Women in History: from the Mi'kmaq to the mid 20th century", Tantramar Heritage Trust Annual Dinner, 15 May 2011, public talk

"The Midwife's Tale: the historian, the diarist, and their times", Tantramar Heritage Trust: Under the
Sky Festival, 3 August 2010, public talk

"Religion and Literature in Atlantic Canada", Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, University of Prince
Edward Island, 30 April 30 - 3 May 2009, session chair

"Twentieth Century Revivalism", Summer Conference, Ecclesiastical History Society, University of
Cardiff, 19-22 July 2006, session chair and also peer reviewer for papers in this session
submitted for possible inclusion in the annual publication

Professional Organizations

American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Canadian Committee on Women's History
Canadian Historical Association
Canadian Society of Church History/Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Ecclesiastical History Society (UK)
Maine Historical Society
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Local/Public History Organizations

Amherst Township Historical Society
Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Tantramar Heritage Trust/Tantramar Historical Society
York-Sunbury Historical Society

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