Jordan Chase


Thesis Title

  • War Weariness in the Canadian Corps, April 1917-November 1918

Supervisor

  • Prof. Jonathan Vance

Second Reader

  • Prof. Aldona Sendzikas

Main Research Interests

  • morale, combat motivation, endurance, and discipline in the First World War; shell shock, PTSD, war neurosis, and psychiatric casualties in combat; military medicine; military law; chaplains and padres in the CEF; escape mechanisms and self-inflicted wounds and illnesses

Publications

  • Book Review of Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force by Nic Clarke. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press, 2015. 239 pages. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-7748-2889-5. Ontario History, Autumn 2016, pages 275-276.

    Currently working on an article regarding the Canadian Chaplain Services in the First World War. Working title: Ministering to the Spiritual, Moral and Social Welfare of the Troops: The Canadian Chaplain Service, Morale and Endurance in the First World War.

    Also currently working on an article about self-inflicted wounds and illnesses. Working title “The End of His Tether” and the Actions of a Desperate Soldier: An Examination of Self-Inflicted Wounds in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 

Conference Papers

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    Panel Chair at Vimy at 100, the 28th Military History Colloquium, hosted by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, at Wilfrid Laurier University. Panel entitled Disease: The Invisible Bullet. Saturday 6 May, 2017.

    Paper Presentation at Vimy at 100, the 28th Military History Colloquium, hosted by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, at Wilfrid Laurier University. Presentation of paper entitled The Curse of Hippocrates: The Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC), Problems, Tension and Conflict amongst Medical Officers (MOs) in the context of the First World War. Friday 5 May, 2017.

    Paper Presentation at 27th Canadian Military History Colloquium, hosted by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, at Wilfrid Laurier University. Presentation of paper entitled “Ministering to the Spiritual, Moral and Social Welfare of the Troops:” The Canadian Chaplain Service, Morale and Endurance in the First World War. Listed in the conference program as The Canadian Chaplain Service, War Weariness and the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Friday 6 May, 2016.

    Paper presentation at ‘Prisms, Paradigms, and Paradoxes: The Fourth Annual History Graduate Conference,’ hosted by the University of Western Ontario. Presentation of paper entitled “We Return From Fighting, We Return Fighting” – The ‘Double V Campaign’ and its Influence on the Post-War Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Friday 1 May, 2015.

    Accepted to present at, but unable to attend, The Great War’s Shadow: New Perspectives on the First World War, hosted by the University of Calgary, Calgary and Lake Louise, 25-28 September, 2014.

    Paper presentation at the 10th Annual Pierre Savard Conference, hosted by the University of Ottawa. Presentation of paper entitled The ‘End of his Tether’ and the Actions of a Desperate Soldier: An Examination of Self-Inflicted Wounds in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Thursday 14 April, 2014.

    Presentation of research findings at the History Graduate Research Forum, in partnership with the History Graduate Student Union, the University of Calgary, entitled Unwilling to Continue, Ordered to Advance: An Examination of ‘War Weariness’ in the Canadian Corps during the Hundred Days Campaign. Thursday 14 March, 2013.

    Paper presentation at the 10th Annual McGill-Queen’s University Graduate Conference in History. Presentation of paper entitled Disease, Decline and Extinction: The Beothuk of Newfoundland as an Historical and Historiographical Problem. Friday 1 March, 2013.

    Attended panels and workshops at Directions West, the third biennial Western Canadian Studies Conference, University of Calgary, 20-23 June, 2012. 

Archival Travel

  • Library and Archives Canada (LAC), and the Canadian War Museum (CWM) in Ottawa

    The Archives of the Catholic Diocese of London, ON.

    The W.A. Howard Library, Arthur J.E. Child Archives, and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) Archives, at the Military Museums Archives, Calgary, AB.

    Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, NS.

    Ley and Lois Smith Military History Collection, Department of History, Western University, London ON.

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