Sean Mills

Sean Mills is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Canadian and Transnational History at the University of Toronto. After a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University, he has focused on intersections between migration, race, political thought, gender, and empire.

• PhD, Queen’s University
• MA, McGill University

Research interests include:

• Quebec-Haiti transnational history
• Postcolonial thought in First World cities
• Migration's impact on political discourse
• Language/sexuality/class intersections
• Historical activism and resistance movements

Publication trends show sustained engagement with:

• Decolonization paradoxes in Montreal
• Quebec-Haiti cultural/political bonds
• Global consciousness formation in the Sixties

Major awards:

• 2018 Royal Society of Canada induction
• 2017 Clio-Quebec Prize
• 2017 Quebec National Assembly Book Prize
• 2010 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award
• 2009 John Bullen Award

Current work examines art, culture, and social change. He actively contributes to debates about Quebec's historical narratives and migrant integration.