Home University: Wilfrid Laurier University
Email: morr6424@mylaurier.ca
Education: BA & MA, History, Toronto
Research Fields: Canadian, War & Society, Public History, Child/Family History
Supervisor: Tarah Brookfield
Kelly Morrison is a PhD candidate in History, specializing in War & Society, at Wilfrid Laurier University. She earned her BA and MA in History at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research focuses on the contribution of British Child Migrants (“Home Children”) to Canada’s war efforts in the First and Second World Wars. Kelly has published two articles: In 2016, “The North West Rebellion Monument and its Enduring Place in the Historical Landscape of Toronto,” for ImagiNATIONS, the University of Toronto’s Canadian Studies Undergraduate Journal; and in 2020, “The Missing and the Missed of Lanark County, Ontario: Great War Sacrifice and the Memorialization of Exclusion in ‘The Volunteer’ Monument,” for Ontario History. Her areas of interest also include Canadian Military History, Public History, War and Memory and Child/Family History.