# Stuart Henderson

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'''Stuart Robert Henderson''' is a Canadian filmmaker, historian, and culture critic. He is the president of 90th Parallel Productions, a film production company. He is the author of the Clio award-winning book ''Making the Scene, Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s'' (University of Toronto Press, 2011). "Making the Scene" focuses on the history of 1960s [Yorkville](/source/Yorkville%2C_Toronto) as a mecca for Toronto's and Canada's [counterculture](/source/counterculture).

Henderson is the producer and showrunner for [We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel)](/source/We're_All_Gonna_Die_(Even_Jay_Baruchel)), a Crave Original documentary series about the end of the world. He won the [Canadian Screen Award](/source/Canadian_Screen_Awards) for Best Writing in 2025.<ref>https://www.academy.ca/2025/stuart-henderson/ </ref> Among the documentary films he has produced are ''[The Skin We're In](/source/The_Skin_We're_In_(film))'', ''[Invisible Essence: The Little Prince](/source/Invisible_Essence%3A_The_Little_Prince)'', and ''My First 150 Days''. Working with [Jesse Wente](/source/Jesse_Wente) and Justine Pimlott, he produced ''[Inconvenient Indian](/source/Inconvenient_Indian)'', a feature documentary from director [Michelle Latimer](/source/Michelle_Latimer). The film, based on the best-selling book by [Thomas King](/source/Thomas_King_(novelist)), premiered at the [Toronto International Film Festival](/source/Toronto_International_Film_Festival) in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tiff.net/events/inconvenient-indian|title = Inconvenient Indian}}</ref>

Henderson has held post-doctoral fellowships at [McMaster University](/source/McMaster_University) (2008–2009) and [York University](/source/York_University) (2009–2011) where he conducted research on Toronto's [Rochdale College](/source/Rochdale_College) and what he has termed "hip separatism" in the 1970s.  He has taught Canadian cultural history courses at the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) and [Queen's University](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston). His doctoral dissertation was honoured by the Canadian Historical Association with the John Bullen Prize for best PhD thesis (2008).{{cn|date=April 2026}}

Henderson's academic work has appeared in the ''[Journal of Canadian Studies](/source/Journal_of_Canadian_Studies)'',<ref>""While there is Still Time...": J. Murray Gibbon and the Spectacle of Difference in Three CPR Folk Festivals, 1928-1931", Journal of Canadian Studies: [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_canadian_studies/v039/39.1henderson.html]</ref> the ''Canadian Historical Review'',<ref>"Off the Streets and into the Fortress: Experiments in Hip Separatism at Toronto's Rochdale College, 1968–1975", Canadian Historical Review [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_historical_review/summary/v092/92.1.henderson.html]</ref> ''LeftHistory'',<ref>"All Pink and Clean and Full of Wonder? Gendering Joni Mitchell, 1966-74", Left History: [http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/lh/article/viewFile/5682/4875]</ref><ref>"Disappointment, Nihilism, and Engagement: Some Thoughts on Active History", Left History: [http://activehistory.ca/papers/historypaper-8/]</ref> the Journal of Canadian Historical Association<ref>"Toronto’s Hippie Disease: End Days in the Yorkville Scene, August 1968", Journal of Canadian Historical Association: [http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/2006/v17/n1/016108ar.pdf]</ref> and the ''Journal for the Study of Radicalism''.

He has worked as the editor of the Americana section at ''[Exclaim!](/source/Exclaim!)'' and as a features editor at [PopMatters Media Inc](/source/PopMatters), where he was also a frequent contributor.{{cn|date=April 2026}}

Henderson is former chair of the board for ''[Point of View](/source/Point_of_View_(magazine))'' magazine. He has served on the jury for the [Polaris Music Prize](/source/Polaris_Music_Prize) and has worked as the national pop culture columnist for [CBC Radio One](/source/CBC_Radio_One). On May 15, 2011, Henderson was elected to the executive board of the Popular Culture Association of Canada. He lives in [Toronto](/source/Toronto).

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