Allen Mills

Biography:

ALLEN MILLS is a Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Winnipeg. His research interests include: Canadian politics, Canadian socialism and liberalism; eastern Europe and the thought of Trudeau, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka. He has published articles on Canadian socialism, the Canadian Forum, early Winnipeg radicalism, J. S. Woodsworth, Frank Scott, Ernest Gellner and media in post-Communist Czechoslovakia.

Mills was visiting fellow at Edinburgh University in 1992 and visiting lecturer in Canadian Studies at Charles University, Prague in the same year. His book on Woodsworth, Fool for Christ: the political thought of J. S. Woodsworth was published in 1991 by University of Toronto Press.

He was Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Winnipeg from 2000 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2016. From 2004 to 2007 he was editor of the government and politics entries for The Encyclopedia of Manitoba which was published in November 2007. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his book on Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Citizen Trudeau; 1944-1965: An Intellectual Biography.

Mills earned his BA (Hons) at Trinity College, Dublin University, in 1967; his MA at York University, in 1968, and his Ph. D. at the University of Western Ontario, in 1976. His Ph.D. thesis was on "The Forum and Canadian socialism, 1920-1934." 

Source: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/political-science/faculty/allen-mills.html

Activities:

• 2019-10-24 – Pierre Trudeau Centennial — The Leadership Arts of Pierre Trudeau

Publications:

• 2019-10-24 – Trudeau as a Political Thinker