A. B. McKillop
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A.B. McKillop (born 1946) is currently Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the history department of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
McKillop was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba (BA 1968, MA 1970) and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (PhD 1977). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.
A specialist in intellectual and cultural history, his books include A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era (1979), Contours of Canadian Thought (1987), Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951, and The Spinster and the Prophet; Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past (2000). The last of these won the Toronto Book Prize, University of British Columbia's President's Medal for Biography, and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for "Best True Crime."
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