Bonnie Huskins

Bonnie Huskins is an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick and teaches history at both UNB and St. Thomas University. Her research examines Loyalist communities in Maritime Canada, with particular focus on sociability practices and identity formation during the post-revolutionary era.

Education:

• Ph.D. from Dalhousie University (1992)
• M.A. from University of California, Los Angeles
• B.A. from Occidental College

Her scholarship analyzes how Loyalist refugees reconstructed social networks through institutions like Freemasonry and developed collective identities in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This work utilizes diaries and personal narratives to reveal lived experiences of displacement.

Current digital humanities projects include collaborative story maps on British military engineer William Booth and Revolutionary-era medicine. She has received teaching awards for innovative approaches to Loyalist history education.