Fonds F 0175 - Sean Kheraj fonds

Sean Kheraj (b. 1980) is an award-winning Canadian historian and professor of history. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia before studying History at the University of British Columbia (BA) and York University (MA, PhD). After briefly teaching at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, from 2011-2022 he held teaching and administrative roles in the Department of History and Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University. In 2022 he took up an administrative role at Toronto Metropolitan University, and he has served as a director of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), where he hosts and produces “Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast.” Kheraj is the author of Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (UBC Press, 2013), co-author (with Tom Peace) of Open History Seminar: Canadian History (eCampus Ontario, 2020), and co-editor (with Jennifer Bonnell) of Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History (University of Calgary Press, 2021). He has published a host of scholarly articles and blog posts on subjects including oil pipelines, animals in urban areas, parks and conservation, digital history, and open educational resources.

Sources: Sean Kheraj, https://www.seankheraj.com/about/ (accessed 12 April 2021); personal correspondence between Archivist Sarah Glassford and Sean Kheraj, April 2021.