Call for Papers – Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection). 

Jarett Henderson earned his Ph.D. from York University in Toronto, and an MA and BA in History from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (Canada). Jarett is a specialist in the history of gender and sexuality, the history of colonial North America (Canada), and the comparative histories of British settler-colonialism. Prior to arriving at UCSB, he was an Associate Professor at an undergraduate teaching university in Calgary, Alberta (Mount Royal University), where he ran the Honours program, organized an annual undergraduate conference (The Foothills Colloquium), and taught a series of courses on Canada, the British Empire, and Queer History. He is especially interested in how debates about colonial rule in the nineteenth-century British Empire were wrapped up with larger empire-wide discussions about gender, sexuality, and un/freedom that were sparked by campaigns to abolish slavery, protect Indigenous peoples, and end convict transportation. His current book project Unnatural Sex and Uncivil Subjects: A Queer History of Straight Settler State Making in Early Canada, examines the debates over the implementation of white settler self-government in the Canadian colonies alongside efforts to re-criminalize sex between men in the first half of the nineteenth century. 

• Sarah Dunne
• Kristina Kelehan

• “On the Historical Ordinariness of Pederasty,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 32: 2 (2022): 3-11.
• “Rex v. J. B. Smith (Calgary, 1902): Queer Carnal Acts and Heterosexual Settler Colonialism in Canada’s Prairie Empire,” Prairie History: The Journal of the West (Summer 2021): 82-86. Reprinted by: Calgary Gay History Project: Our Past Matters Blog, 31 October 2022.
• “‘The Most Infamous Degradation of the Honour of Civil Government’: The Turton Job and the Sexual Politics of Colonial Rule in 1830s Britain and British North America,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 21:1 (Spring 2020). 
• “‘A difference of race’? Racializing, Difference, and Governance in British Debates about the Colony of Lower Canada, 1828-1837,” with Bettina Bradbury. In Engaging with Diversity: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality from Quebec, edited by Stéphan Gervais, Raffaele Iacovino and Mary-Anne Poutanen, (Bruxelles: Peter Lang Publishing, 2018), 305-26.
• “‘From One Part of the Empire to Another’: Promoting a Settler-Colonial Future in Canadian Immigration Handbooks in the Late-Nineteenth Century,” in van der Meulen, E. (ed.) From Suffragette to Homesteader: Exploring One Woman’s Memoir on Life in England and Canada, (Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2018), 110-125.
• “Sex, Scandal, and Punishment in Early Toronto,” with Ed Jackson. In Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, edited by Lornic, J., McCaskell, T., Fitzgerald, M., Farrow, J., and Chambers, S. (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2016), 86-90. (Shortlisted for the 2017 City of Toronto Book Prize).
• “Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence, and the Abolition of Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada,” Histoire sociale/Social History 46:92 (2013): 321-48. (republished in, Sean Kheraj and Tom Peace, Eds., Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Pressbooks: 2018).
• “‘No Money, But Muscle and Pluck’: Cultivating Trans-Imperial Manliness for the Fields of Empire, 1870-1901,” Making It Like A Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice, edited by Christine Ramsay, (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 17-37.
•  “‘I Am Pleased With My Lambton Loot’: Arthur George Doughty and the Making of the Durham Papers”. Archivaria 70 (2010): pp. 153-176.

Undergraduate Level

• HIST 9 – Historical Methods: Making Historical Sense of Unnatural Sex 
• HIST 99 – Introduction to Research
• HIST 101G – Comparative Contested Sexualities 
• HIST 101QA – Queer North America 
• HIST 101SR – Undergraduate Research Seminar in the History of Sexuality
• HIST 101WR – Undergraduate Research Seminar in World History
• HIST 124C – Sex, Gender, and Settler Colonialism
• HIST 141A – Nineteenth-Century Britain
• HIST 141C – The British Empire
• HIST 141R – Undergraduate Research Seminar in Modern British History
• HIST 194 AH/AB – History Honors Thesis Seminar
• HIST 196JABC – Internship in Scholarly Publishing
• HIST 199RA – Independent Research Assistant

Graduate Level

• HIST 200G – Comparative Histories of Sex, Gender, and Colonialism
• HIST 295GS – Gender and Sexuality Workshop 

Undergraduate Honours Thesis Supervision

• Ryann Nelson, “The ‘Barbelles’: Femininity and Women Bodybuilders at Mid-Century Muscle Beach, California,” (March 2025), UC Santa Barbara. 
  • Winner of History Associates Board Prize, History, UC Santa Barbara (2025)
• Hanna Kawamoto, “Spiritually Unsexed: Believers, Critics, and Early Histories of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776-1840,” (March 2024), UC Santa Barbara.
  • Winner of A. Russell Buchanan Alumni Award, History, UC Santa Barbara (2024)
  • Winner of Library Award for Undergraduate Research, UC Santa Barbara (2024)
  • Winner of William R. Reardon Undergraduate Award, Division of Undergraduate Education (2024)
• Gracelyn Barmore-Pooley, “We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Irish”: Excavating Transatlantic Queer Identity through the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization,” (June 2023), UC Santa Barbara. 
  • Winner of A. Russell Buchanan Alumni Award, History, UC Santa Barbara (2023)
• Marisol Cruz, “En La Vida: A Glimpse into the Life of Queer Latine Folks in Chicago during the 1990s,” (March 2023), UC Santa Barbara.
  • Winner of History Associates Board Prize, History, UC Santa Barbara (2023)
• John Young, “New Men” Rising and the British Country House,” (March 2022), UC Santa Barbara.
  • Winner of Marion Ramstad Scholarship, History, UC Santa Barbara (2022)
• Mackenzie Butler, “Crafting Sexual Respectability in American Youth Organization,” Co-Mentor with Dr. Sarah Case, (April 2021), UC Santa Barbara.
  • Winner of Margaret J. Straight Scholarship, History, UC Santa Barbara (2021)
• Jane Wahlig, “American and British Narratives of Enslavement in the 19th Century,” (April 2021), UC Santa Barbara. 
  • Winner of History of Public Policy Senior Thesis Prize, History, UC Santa Barbara (2021)
• Tomas Tuszynski, “The Fifth Partition: The Post-War Polish-American Experience in Southern California, 1945-1985 (April 2020), UC Santa Barbara.

• External Faculty Affiliate, Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley (2023 – )
• Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring, June 2023
• Best Graduate Paper Prize Committee, Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies (2022 – )
• Program Committee, Queer History Conference 2 (SFSU, 2020 – 2022)
• Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting Program Committee (U Alberta, 2021).
• Best Article Prize Committee, Canadian Committee History of Sexuality (2018 –)
• Coordinator, Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara (2018 – )
• Histoire sociale/Social History, English Language Book Review Editor (2011 – 2017).
• Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting Program Committee (U Calgary, 2016).
• Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting Program Committee (U Victoria, 2013).
• Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting Program Committee (York U, 2006).
• Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting Program Committee (U Manitoba, 2004).

Public Facing Histories:

• “Queer and Trans Histories in an Urgent Present,” Broadsides, North American Conference on British Studies, (Blog Posted, 5 June 2025).
• “A Wave of ‘Infamous Crime’ Clause Making?” Broadsides, North American Conference on British Studies, (Blog Posted, 14 July 2023). 
• File M – The 1838 Markland Investigation (Digital History Archive).
  • Markland has been included in Tom Hooper, Ed, Queer History Colouring Book, (Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity: 2018).
• “‘Beware of Scamps and Rogues, Whatever Their Ability May Be’: The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of Lord Durham’s Administration,” Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History, L. R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, (Blog Posted, 20 November 2017).
• “I Did Not Understand This Behaviour”: Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada,” NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, (Blog Posted, 1 June 2017).
• “The 1837–1838 Rebellion: Consolidating Settler Colonialism in Canada,” with Orion Keresztesi. The Graphic History Collective: Remember, Resist, Redraw – A Radical History Poster Project. (Tabloid Poster and Digital PDF, April 1, 2017).
• “Indecent Alberta: On Trial For Gross Indecency, 1900-1930” (Digital Historical Archive, 2016).
• “File M and the Straightness of the Settler State in Early Canada,” Borealia: A Group Blog on Early Canadian History, (Blog Posted, 18 January 2016).