Dr. Robert Englebert's Students

Scott Berthelette
PhD Student

Dissertation Title: The French Delusion of Empire: Native Traders and French Explorers in the Petit Nord and Northern Great Plains, 1731-1763.

Fields of Expertise: French colonial history, Aboriginal history, New France, Atlantic World

Dissertation Description: My doctoral research examines how the eighteenth century Indigenous peoples of the Petit Nord and Northern Great Plains – Cree, Assiniboine, and Dakota – resisted creating a middle ground with French newcomers, as they had little desire or need of French mediation in their territories. In particular, the French officer Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye found himself on a Native ground, where Native politics, not French imperialism, dictated the terms of alliance. My research focuses on the disparities between the rhetoric and the reality of French Empire west of the Great Lakes. Rather than affirming the realities of inter-village relations, the linguistic conventions of the French alliance betrayed French fantasies for a paternalistic empire in the heart of North America.

Publications:
Berthelette, Scott. “Frères et Enfants du même Père” The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731-1743.” Early American Studies (Winter, 2016): Forthcoming.

Berthelette, Scott. “The Making of a Manitoban Hero: Commemorating La Vérendrye in St. Boniface and Winnipeg 1886-1938.” Manitoba History 74 (Winter, 2014): 15-25.

Berthelette, Scott. “La Vérendrye’s ‘Middle Ground’: Village and Imperial Politics in the Northwest, 1731-1743.” Strata 5 (2013): 1-31.

Conferences Presentations:
Rupert’s Land Colloquium, University of Alberta. “Frères et Enfants du même Père: French Conceptions of Alliance and Diplomacy in the Petit Nord, 1731-1743.” (2014).

The Fort Garry Lectures, University of Manitoba. “Frères et Enfants du même Père: French Conceptions of Alliance and Diplomacy in the Petit Nord, 1731-1743.” (2014).

The Imperial Project and Projections of Empire Conference, University of Alberta. “Frères et Enfants du même Père: French Conceptions of Alliance and Diplomacy in the Petit Nord, 1731-1743.” (2014).

New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University. “Frères et Enfants du même Père: French Conceptions of Alliance and Diplomacy in the Petit Nord, 1731-1743” (2014).

9th Annual Pierre Savard Conference, University of Ottawa. “La Vérendrye’s ‘Middle Ground’: Village and Imperial Politics in the Northwest, 1731-1743.” (2013).

Email: sab898@mail.usask.ca

Damian Braun
MA Student

Thesis Title: The Hudson's Bay Company During the American Revolution

Thesis Description:
Three Hudson's Bay Company posts became the targets of French warships at the end of the American Revolutionary War. Why? The war was nearly over and the French and British were no longer fur trade competitors. What can the HBC posts on the Bay tell us about the nature of the British Empire at a point of crisis in its existence in America? What can the French attack on these HBC posts during the American Revolutionary War say about the British Empire at that time? The significance of this work is the possibility of redefining The HBC's role in the British Empire.

Email: dkb820@mail.usask.ca

Bronwyn Craig
MA Student
Thesis Title: Early American Government in French Illinois Country 1778-1803

Thesis Dscription: My research investigates the effect of American revolutionary and post-revolutionary governance and control on the French-speaking inhabitants of the Illinois Country. I am examining petitions and memorials, court records and economic activity in order to understand French resistance and integration into the early United States of America.

Email: bmc209@mail.usask.ca

David Seibel
MA Student

Thesis Title: Upper Louisiana and St. Louis under Spanish Authority

Thesis Description: My research investigates the interactions of French people in Upper Louisiana with Spanish imperial authority from 1766 to 1793. I am examining how French colonial peoples accepted and contested imperial regime change and I am seeking to understand the limits of imperial authority on the frontier. My research is centered on the French inhabitants’ relationship with the Spanish state, not the Spanish government’s perspective.

Email: david.seibel@usask.ca

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