Email: jlutz@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue B222

List of Publications

History of the Pacific Northwest, History of Aboriginal--Non-Aboriginal relations, European colonialism in the Pacific

Dr. Lutz began his university studies at the University of Victoria where I majored in history and economics and then went on to do a masters in economic history at UVic. His Ph.D. dissertation "Work, Wages and Welfare in Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Relations in British Columbia, 1849-1970" was completed at the University of Ottawa in 1995. Afterwards, he had the good fortune to spend time as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Geography), the University of Washington (History) and the University of Victoria (History). He joined the faculty at the University of Victoria in 1997.

Since starting teaching at UVic, Dr. Lutz developed some community based research projects, particularly through the Coasts Under Stress project where he worked in the First Nations communities of Hartley Bay and Alert Bay and through the Ethnohistory Field School Course he co-teach every other year with the Sto:lo First Nation. He has also developed an interest in history and the new media and serves as co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History and director or partner in several history-oriented website projects.

Inspired by the well-known Canadian historian Harold Innis, who thought that you could not understand the history of Canada without knowing the country and the wildlife, Dr. Lutz spends his "spare" time exploring the region: hiking the major hikes, canoeing the rivers, driving the roads. His interests overlaps with his partner Cheryl Coull, formerly a travel writer/editor/historian and author of A Traveller's Guide to Aboriginal B.C. and now a Shiatsu Therapist and acupuncture student. They have one son, Sylvan.

Books

Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations. UBC Press, 2008, 431pp.

Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge, edited collection co-edited with Barbara Neis, McGill-Queens University Press, 2008, 338pp.

Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, edited collection, University of British Columbia Press, 2007, 236pp.

Articles and Chapters

"Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming," Canadian Historical Review, Volume 90, Number 2 (June 2009) 303-326; (with Kevin Kee, Shawn Graham, Pat Dune, Andrew Large, Michel Blondeau and Mike Clare).

"Introduction" and "Conclusion: Miles to Go," with Barbara Neis in Making and Moving Knowledge: Interedisciplinary and Community Based Research in a World on the Edge, McGill-Queens University Press, 2008, 338pp.

Website Projects

Colonial Despatches. Academic Director.
Electronic publication of Dr. James Hendrickson's transcriptions of the communication of the governor's of Colonies of Vancouver Island British Columbia with the Colonial Office in London. At the moment only the despatches of 1858 are available to the public. The rest will be added to the site as they are revised for the web.

Victoria's Victoria, Director.
A website on the history of Victoria, B.C. in the Victorian Era, built with research reports from student projects. Launched April 2002.

Others

"Bed Jumping and Compelling Convergences in Historical Computing," Digital History, University of Nebraska, 2007.