Podruchny, Carolyn

Carolyn Podruchny is an Associate Professor of History at York University. Her research interests include Indigenous and French history in northern North America, Canadian colonial history, cultures, and environments. She is author of Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade (2006) and she is a co-editor of Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History (with Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall 2012), Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories (with Laura Peers 2010), and Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500–1700 (with Germaine Warkentin 2001). She is currently working on the history of fur trade stories and the linguistic encounters between Anihsinaabemowin and French.