Jennifer Reid is a Canadian-American historian whose research focuses on the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies.
A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter (1995), Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada (2008), and Finding Kluskap (2013).
Jennifer Reid was born to parents of differing religious and language backgrounds – English-speaking Protestant William and French-speaking Catholic Irene[1][2] – and raised in Arnprior, a suburb within the Ottawa–Gatineau region.
[6] Reid, who became interested in First Nations culture after befriending several Mi'kmaq students during her time at UCCB,[2] specializes in the relationship of religion with colonialization or globalization, as well as methodology in religious studies.
[8] She has also written op-eds for the Ottawa Citizen: one in 2008 on Louis Riel's complex identity and folk hero legacy;[9] and another in 2009 criticizing Canada's rationale for not signing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples due to racial inequality concerning First Nations people.