| Institution: | Bruce Curtis is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. His most recent book, The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840–1875;(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), was awarded the John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association and the John Porter Memorial Prize of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Research for this article was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as part of the research project "Educational Enquiry and the 'Social Science'in Insurrectionary Lower Canada." I wish to thank Lorraine O'Donnell for research assistance and Kate Rousmaniere and three anonymous reviewers from the History of Education Quarterly for critical commentary on an earlier draft. |
