Professor - Historical Studies; (cross-listed) Social/Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Science 

Email: e5rb@mun.ca

Phone: (709) 637-6278 

 

Research interests/expertise

Environmental history of Newfoundland; Indigenous history of Newfoundland and Labrador; social/cultural/political history of Upper Canada. 

 

Awards

• Community Engagement Award, 2023

 

Publications (select)

• “Newfoundland’s West Coast and the Gulf of St Lawrence Fishery, ca. 1775-83: A Case Study of War, Fish, and Empire,” in The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Enironmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Ed. Claire E. Campell, Edward MacDonald and Brian Payne. Montreal and Kingston: Mc-Gill Queen’s University Press, 2019.  69-113. 
• "Reconstructing Heritage and Cultural Identity in Marginalized and Hinterland Communities: Case Studies from Western Newfoundland, Canada," London Journal of Canadian Studies, 30 (2015).  
• "Indigenizing the Academy: The Case of Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq Resurgence," Morning Watch: Journal of Educational and Social Analysis 40, 3-4 (2013): 104-115. 
• "Whose Pine-Clad Hills: Forest Rights and Access in Newfoundland and Labrador's History," Newfoundland Quarterly 103, 4 (2011): 42-47. 
• "Sustainability in the Humber River Basin", International Journal of Global Warming 3 No.1/2 (2011): 3- 29. Co-authored. 
• "Nineteenth Century Medical and Anthropological Views of the Labrador Inuit," in "Very Rough Country": Proceedings of the Labrador Explorations Symposium.  Ed. Martha MacDonald. St. John's: The Labrador Institute, 2010.  228-250. 
• "Early Anthropological Discourse on the Inuit and the Influence of Virchow on Boas," Etudes Inuit Studies 38, 2 (2008): 13- 34. 
• "Diplomacy, Legal Issues, and Foreign Fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: Revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 Convention," Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Vol. 10, a Festschrift in Memory of Peter N. Oliver.  Eds. Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2008. 
• "Trying the Rebels: Emergency Legislation and the Colonial Executive's Overall Legal Strategy in the Upper Canadian Rebellion," in Canadian State Trials, Vol. 2; Rebellion in the Canadas.  Eds. Barry Wright and Murray Greenwood. Toronto: The Osgoode Society, 2002. pp. 41-61. 
• Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Other Narratives from Newfoundland Waters, 1583-1896. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.  

 

Current research projects and grants

• Book contract: (Vancouver: UBC Press)
  • Rainer Baehre, Woodland Echoes: A History of Newfoundland’s Forest Industries – in progress.

• Book proposal accepted (St. John’s: Memorial University Press)
  • Rainer Baehre, Empire and Colony: Newfoundland 1763-1832 – in progress.

• Chapter in edited collection: Graeme Wynn and David Brownstein, eds., New History of Canada’s Forests (Australian National University Press and ANYU Press) – in progress.
  • Rainer Baehre, Chapter 9, “Newfoundland Forest Industries to 1950” - in progress.

• Community Engagement
  • CABOX collaboration – Proposal development for UNESCO Global Geopark (Bay of Islands)