Widdis, Randy
Dr. Randy William Widdis is professor of the Department of Geography at the University of Regina. Dr. Widdis has written and taught extensively on the Canadian-American Borderlands and on Canadian migration to the United States and American migration to the Canadian Prairies.
He is currently working on a book titled Neighbours in Paradox: The Evolution of the Canadian-American Borderlands, 1784-2017. In two volumes he describes, first, the beginnings from frontiers to borderlands, and second, the transformations, configurations and reconfigurations during the transition from modernity to post-modernity.
Research Interest: Cultural-Historical Geography, Rural Geography, Population Geography, Philosophy and Methodology of Geography, Canada – United States borderland, Cultural landscapes, and Heritage tourism
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Regina |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Canadian Politics Cultural Memory and Policy Migration Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | Randy.Widdis@uregina.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Widdis, Randy. (2024). Back to the Future: Winnipeg’s Reinvention from Borderland Trade and Transportation Gateway to Globalized Trade and Transportation Hub. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 1-24. 10.1080/08865655.2024.2363198. Widdis, Randy. (2023). The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland. Journal of Historical Geography. 81. 190-201. 10.1016/j.jhg.2023.06.006. Widdis, Randy. (2021). New Directions at the Border: A Historical Geographical Perspective. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 36. 1-19. 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948899. R.W. Widdis, Neighbours in Paradox: The Evolution of the Canadian-American Borderlands, 1784-2017 Volume One: Beginnings, From Frontiers to Borderlands, 1784-1870 (currently being examined) Volume Two: Transformations: Configurations and Reconfigurations during the Transition from Modernity to Post-Modernity (currently being edited). R.W. Widdis, ed., History and the Canada-United States Border: Insights and Approaches (forthcoming University of Ottawa Press, 2019). R.W. Widdis, ed., The Prairies and Northern Great Plains Borderland: Themes and Issues from the Interior of North America (forthcoming University of Ottawa Press, 2019). R.W. Widdis, “Railroads and Borderland Spaces: The Canada-U.S. Case,” The Canadian Geographer (forthcoming 2019). |
