Jennifer Reid

Jennifer Reid is a Canadian-American historian whose research focuses on the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter, Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), and Finding Kluskap (2013). She was a professor at University of Maine at Farmington. Biography Jennifer Reid was born to parents of differing religious and language backgrounds – English-speaking Protestant William and French-speaking Catholic Irene – and raised in Arnprior, a suburb within the Ottawa–Gatineau region. She obtained her BA (1990) at University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), as well as her MA (1992) and PhD (1994) at the University of Ottawa; her doctoral dissertation No Man's Land: British and Mi'kmaq in 18th and 19th Century Acadia was supervised by Robert Choquette. She joined the faculty of the University of Maine at Farmington in the mid-1990s, eventually becoming professor there. She has also written op-eds for the Ottawa Citizen: one in 2008 on Louis Riel's complex identity and folk hero legacy; and another in 2009 criticizing Canada's rationale for not signing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples due to racial inequality concerning First Nations people. She also received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Humanities Council.

In 2015, Reid was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion; as part of the Fellowship, it was announced that she would to travel around North America and Australia to engage socially with activists and Indigenous lawyers concerning land rights.

Reid is a Canadian and American dual citizen.