Cathleen Clark is a settler historian whose work contributes to national and transnational histories of postwar Canada, Indigenous politics, and the global Sixties. Her current book project examines multifaceted expressions of intertribal Indigenous activism from the 1960s to the early 1980s by reevaluating the relationships between Red Power activism, professional advocacy organizations, and international Indigenous rights campaigns. The dissertation on which this work is based received the University of Toronto History Department’s Finlayson Gold Medal.
Alongside manuscript revisions, Cathleen is developing a second project which investigates the Department of Indian Affairs’s postwar efforts to ‘integrate’ Indigenous children into provincial public schools alongside the parallel rise of the Indian Control of Indian Education movement. She also holds a BEd and engages critically with approaches to history education and pedagogy in her professional practice.
