Biography

Dr. M. Max Hamon received his PhD from McGill University in 2017. He has also taught at Carleton, Brandon and Queen’s. Broadly, he is interested in socio-cultural and political history of the nation state and the Indigenous-newcomer relations with a particular focus on the Métis. His first book, The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation that Canada Never was, 1840-1875, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, won the Wilson Institute Prize in 2019 and the Prix de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec in 2020.

Max is currently writing a history of borderland policing in Canada and the United States. He is particularly interested in the early forms of community policing that pre-date the federal police. He has also created a podcast series titled “Police and the Border”.

He teaches courses on pre- and post-confederation Canadian history, Indigenous history in North America, as well as the history of crime and policing in North America.