Ian McKay

Who is Ian McKay?

Ian McKay is a Canadian historian at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has taught since 1988. His primary interests are Canadian cultural and political history; the economic and social history of Atlantic Canada, especially Nova Scotia, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and theory and historiography, particularly Canada as liberal order. McKay earned his BA and PhD from Dalhousie University under the supervision of Michael Cross. He also holds a Masters degree from the University of Warwick. Born in 1953, he is the younger brother of poet Don McKay. In 2009, McKay's Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 won the prestigious Sir John A. McDonald Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the best book written in Canadian history the previous year.