{{Short description|Canadian historian}} '''Sean Carleton''' is Canadian academic and historian who specializes in social movements and political activism in Canada.<ref name="w062">{{cite web | title=Société historique du Canada | website=Canadian Historical Association | url=https://cha-shc.ca/prize-winner/sean-carleton/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref> Carleton holds BA and MA degrees in History from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. from the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies from Trent University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sean Carleton |url=https://www.sfu.ca/history/alumni/profiles/$classNewsController.getPageURL() |access-date=2026-03-01 |website=www.sfu.ca}}</ref> He currently teaches in History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.<ref name="i618">{{cite web | title=About | website=Sean Carleton | url=https://www.seancarleton.com/about | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
==Research==
Carleton's research focuses on the history of settler capitalism and schooling in Canada, with a particular emphasis on the development of the residential school system. His writing also addresses the rise of residential school denialism and its implications for reconciliation in Canada.<ref name="p245"/> He discusses the role of public schools in supporting settler colonialism and offers insights into the history of Indian Day Schools. Other themes of his writing include Indigenous resistance, historical perspectives on colonial strategies, and reflections on significant events in Canadian history.<ref name="p245">{{cite web | title=Meet Sean Carleton, 2022 Rh Award Winner in the Humanities category | website=UM Today | date=2023-05-26 | url=https://news.umanitoba.ca/meet-sean-carleton-2022-rh-award-winner-in-the-humanities-category/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
His publications include the book ''Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia'', published in 2022.<ref name="w917">{{cite book | last=Carleton | first=S. | title=Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia | publisher=UBC Press | year=2022 | isbn=978-0-7748-6810-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xl-JEAAAQBAJ}}</ref> He has also written about comics and their relation to critical consciousness and colonialism.<ref name="e537">{{cite web | title=Research & Writing | website=Sean Carleton | date=2014-04-14 | url=https://www.seancarleton.com/publications | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
Carleton has written review articles that discuss graphic publications and their impact on understanding violence and racism in Canadian history. He has also published various book reviews on works related to Indigenous education and reconciliation.<ref name="e537"/>
==Awards== *2024 - Founders' Prize, Best Book (2022-2024), Canadian History of Education Association<ref name="r609">{{cite web | title=View of 2024 Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prizes / Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation Prix des Fondateurs | website=Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation | date=2025-01-10 | url=https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/5393/5785 | access-date=2026-03-12}}</ref> *2023 - Clio Book Prize, BC, Canadian Historical Association<ref name="w062"/> *2022 - Best Article Prize (2020–2022), Canadian History of Education Association.<ref name="z245">{{cite web | title=CHEA Award Winners 2020-2022 | website=ACHE-CHEA | date=1970-01-01 | url=https://www.ache-chea.ca/page/chea-award-winners-2020-2022 | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref> *2020 - 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike awarded the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies Book Prize.<ref name="i626">{{cite web | last=Carleton | first=Sean | title=1919 wins CAWLS Book Prize | website=Sean Carleton | date=2020-10-13 | url=https://www.seancarleton.com/news/98kdm41t89dcv750hqz6hhjngwlule | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref> *2018 - Top 40 Under 40, Avenue magazine, Calgary, Alberta.<ref name="l952">{{cite web | last=Molyneux | first=Jaelyn | title=2018 Top 40 Under 40 | website=Avenue Calgary | date=2019-10-31 | url=https://www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/Top-40-Under-40/2018/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref> *2017 - Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle awarded the Wilson Book Prize by the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.<ref name="h396">{{cite web | title=Between the Lines's graphic novel Drawn to Change wins 2017 Wilson Book Prize | website=Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews | date=2017-05-30 | url=https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/05/30/between-the-liness-graphic-novel-drawn-to-change-wins-2017-wilson-book-prize/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref> *2017 - Canadian Historical Association Public History Prize for Graphic History Collective, with Paul Buhle, eds., Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle.<ref name="f837">{{cite web | title=Société historique du Canada | website=Canadian Historical Association | url=https://cha-shc.ca/prize-name/public-history-prize/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Canadian historians
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