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Catherine Desbarats is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University, specializing in the financial history of early modern colonial states. She holds a PhD in History from McGill and a DPhil in Economics from Oxford. Her research focuses on decolonizing French imperial history, particularly New France's economic systems and indigenous-french economic interactions. She co-leads a major SSHRC-funded project analyzing New France's monetary systems as tools of imperial control, and a collaborative book project with Allan Greer under contract at OUP.
Teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to colonial history through courses like HIST 334 (History of New France) and HIST 633 (New France Research Seminar). Current research includes digitizing early Iroquoian/French linguistic materials with the Jesuit Archives and graduate students Fannie Dionne & Sandra-Lynn Leclaire.
Her work bridges economic history and postcolonial critique, reinterpreting financial instruments like 17th-century playing-card currency as mechanisms of imperial violence. Office located at Leacock 621.
