Margaret MacMillan (historian)

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Margaret Olwen MacMillan OC D.Phil. (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at the University of Toronto. She is Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College. A well-respected expert on history and current affairs, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the Canadian media.^[1]

1 Career
2 Recognition and honours
3 Published works
4 Trivia
5 Notes and references
6 External links

[edit] Career

MacMillan received an Honours B.A. in modern history from the University of Toronto (attending Trinity College, where she would later become Provost) and a B.Phil in Politics at Oxford University. Her doctoral dissertation, also completed at Oxford, was on the social and political perspectives of the British in India. From 1975 to 2002 she was a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto, including five years as department chair.^[2] She is the author of Women of the Raj, a selection of the "History Book Club." In addition to numerous articles and reviews on a variety of Canadian and world affairs, MacMillan has co-edited books dealing with Canada's international relations, including with NATO, and with Canadian-Australian relations.

From 1995 to 2003, MacMillan co-edited International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Since 1995, she has served as a member of the National Board of Directors of the CIIA

MacMillan's research has focussed on the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on international relations of the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of international relations, including a seminar on the history of the Cold War. In 2007 MacMillan will leave the University of Toronto to serve as Warden of St Antony's College at Oxford University.

[edit] Recognition and honours

Her most successful and celebrated work is Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, also published as Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. Peacemakers won the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics; the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History; the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada. MacMillan has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs, the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Historica, and the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy (Canada). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. She has honorary degrees from the University of King's College, the Royal Military College of Canada student #S154, and Ryerson University, Toronto.

She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in February, 2006.^[3]

[edit] Published works

Women of the Raj. Thames and Hudson, 1988.
Canada and NATO: Uneasy Past, Uncertain Future (editor with David Sorenson), Waterloo, 1990.
The Uneasy Century: International Relations 1900–1990. Kendall/Hunt, 1996.
Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. Co-authored with Francine McKenzie. University of British Columbia, 2003.
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. ISBN 0-7195-5939-1 (UK), 2001; ISBN 0-375-50826-0, 9 (US), 2002.
Canada's House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home. Co-authored with Marjorie Harris and Anne L. Desjardins. Knopf Canada, 2004
Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World. Viking Canada, 2006.
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World. Random House, 2007.