Jean Pierre Morin

  
  • Historian
  • Aborginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
  • Twitter: @jp5morin

Jean-Pierre Morin completed studies in Canadian History at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1999. Since 2000, he has been the staff historian at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada in Ottawa, Canada. He specializes in the history of Treaties between the Government and Aboriginal people and the history of government policy and administration relating to Aboriginal people. In recent years, he has worked at developing new interactive digital historical learning tools, web content and digital media. Since 2010, Jean-Pierre and his team of historical researchers have been leading a series of ongoing commemoration initiatives such as the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

He has been involved in the establishment of the Public History working group of the Canadian Historical Association and was chair of the working group in 2009-2010. He has also been involved in the founding of the International Federation of Public History. In 2013, Jean-Pierre Morin is Program co-chair, with Michelle Hamilton of UWO, of the National Council of Public History’s annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada.