Steven High is professor of history at Concordia University and principal investigator of the  “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT)” project.  He is an award-winning specialist in deindustrialization studies whose use of oral history ensures that his interpretation is grounded in the lives of working people. He has published a number of monographs on this topic: Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence and Class (2022); One Job Town: Work Memory and Betrayal in Northern Ontario; Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003); Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (2007, with David Lewis); and The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class (2025) He has also co-edited four other volumes on this topic. His national and international book prizes include ones in history, sociology and anthropology, Canada-US relations, the humanities, and le Prix du livre politique de la Présidence de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec. Steven High served as President of the Canadian Historical Association from 2021-23 and recently received the Governor General’s History Medal for his work popularizing history and the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for his lifetime contribution to the study of Canadian History. He is currently a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Research Fellow, 2026-29. 

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Email: steven.high@concordia.ca

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