Students – CSL Professors Details

Education:

Ph.D., History, Queen's University, Canada, 1996
M.A., History, Queen's University, Canada, 1990
B.A., Communications, Concordia University, Canada, 1983


Dr. Kenneth Banks is joining the Department of History in the field of New France and the Atlantic World in 2007. His first book, "Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763," won the French Colonial Historical Society's Heggoy Prize for Best Book (2003); his most recent essay examined French Slaving companies and African coastal kingdoms in 17th-century West Africa. He has been interested in groups working on urban conservation, environmental protection, human rights, and world economic and fair labor issues.