Paul Phillips

Professor Emeritus

Department

History

Biography

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Research

Historiography and Modern Intellectual History

Publications

Contesting the Moral High Ground: Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.

INVITED LECTURES

"Arnold J. Toynbee: The Historian as Prophet." St. Francis Xavier University. 25 March 2015.
"Lord Acton: The Historian as Moralist." St. Francis Xavier University. 12 November 2014.

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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