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Peter Cook is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, specializing in early Canadian history, settler-Indigenous relations, and immigration. He earned his PhD from McGill University and has published extensively on treaty-making, French-Indigenous alliances, and colonial power dynamics. His book To Share, Not Surrender (2021) received critical acclaim.
Cook's research reexamines historical interactions between Europeans and Indigenous nations, emphasizing cultural diplomacy and sovereignty. He teaches courses like HSTR 328 (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada) and HSTR 430 (Canada in the Age of Revolutions).
He has mentored multiple graduate students, including those researching fisheries, Métis historiography, and Arctic whaling. Cook received an honourable mention for the William Koren, Jr. Prize for his article on French-Indigenous kinship metaphors.
