Ken Coates (historian)

Dr. Ken Coates is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Indigenous peoples. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo.

Coates received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, and has held the position of Dean of Arts at the University of New Brunswick (1997-2000) and the University of Saskatchewan (2001–2003). In 1992, he was the founding Vice-President of the University of Northern British Columbia. He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand from 1995-1997, and the University of Victoria, British Columbia from 1992-1995.

elected bibliography

*Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon, 2nd Edition (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), with W. R. Morrison.

*Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History, (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004), with W. R. Morrison.

*A Global History of Indigenous Peoples: Struggle and Survival (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004).

*The Marshall Decision and Native Rights (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000).

*Canada's Colonies: A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories (Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1985).