Patrick J. Ryan is a past-President of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and an expert in the history, laws, policies, and discourses of childhood and youth. He has published 2 single-authored books, 12 single-authored peer-reviewed articles, 15 other article-lengthened writings, 14 commentaries, and 26 reviews or short entries. In addition, Dr. Ryan has commissioned and edited over 250 multi-media features or book reviews for online academic periodicals.
Education
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Teaching
Dr. Ryan has taught over 20 different courses at KUC, most recently CYS 2212F/G Childhood and the Law, CYS 2210F/G Childhood and Social Policy, CYS 3313F/G Research Methodologies using Discourse Analysis, CYS 3314F/G Research Methodologies in Governmentality Studies, CYS 3361F/G and History 3261F/G The History of Childhood in Canada, History 3851F/G Capitalism and the Law.Research
History of childhood and youth, law, policy, governmentality studies, and discourse analysis.
- Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2024-present.
- Editorial Board, Child and Youth Studies Dialogues, 2016-present.
- Editorial Board, University of Georgia Press - Children, Youth, and War Series, 2015-present.
- Editorial Board, Palgrave Macmillan Press - History of Childhood Series, 2014-present.
Current Projects:
- Childhood, Youth, and the Governmental State in America. Under contract with Palgrave MacMillan.
- Youth and the Law in Canada - Rights to Participation and Provision. Proposal to LexisNexis Canada under review.
Selected Publications
View a complete listing of Dr. Ryan's publications.
"The 'government of heroic women': childhood, discipline, and the discourse of poverty - 'Kontrolle durch heroische Frauen': Kindheit, Disziplin und der Armustsdiskurs," in Bildungsgeschichte – International Journal for the Historiography of Education vol. 7, no. 2 (2017): 173-190.
Childhood History & Critique (Season 1)
- S1 Ep15 - "Violence & Power - Part 2" - June 22, 2015 (pdf) (5,800-word essay, 39 min. conversation with Ben Parsons, Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK)
- S1 Ep14 - "Violence & Power - Part 1" - June 8, 2015 (pdf) (6,200-word essay, 37 min. conversation with Peter Kelly, Assoc. Professor at RMIT University, Australia)
Master-Servant Childhood: a history of the idea of childhood in medieval English culture. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)
"Interview with Patrick Ryan," (an 'ask-the-author' discussion of the Landscape of Modern Childhood) filmed for the course "Understanding the Young Child," in the Master of Professional Education Program, Curriculum Studies, at Western University, September 5, 2013. "Audio Only Version."
"How New is the 'New' Social Studies of Childhood? The Myth of a Paradigm Shift," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 38, no. 4 (Spring, 2008): 553-576.
Publications in the Last 5 years (click here for a complete listing):
"Building Careers and the Future in SHCY," an invited multi-media roundtable as part of the Origins Project for SHCY Online, www.shcy.org, April 18, 2021.
"COVID-19 Graduate Student Roundtable," SHCY Features, SHCY Online, www.shcy.org, May 6, 2020.
"A Reflection on 'After the Century of the Child,'" in Contextualizing Childhoods : Growing Up in Europe and North America edited by Sally McNamee and Sam Frankel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 63-72.
"SHCY Survey Report - 2017," in SHCY Commentaries on www.shcy.org (October, 2018).
"The 'government of heroic women': childhood, discipline, and the discourse of poverty - 'Kontrolle durch heroische Frauen': Kindheit, Disziplin und der Armustsdiskurs," in Bildungsgeschichte – International Journal for the Historiography of Education vol. 7, no. 2 (2017): 173-190.
"Childhood as Discourse," in Childhood Studies edited by Heather Montgomery Oxford Bibliographies On-line (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Childhood: History & Critique - Season 2 - You can find the audio portion CHC by searching for "SHCY" on itunes, google play, or where ever you get your podcasts. This multimedia series circulating to 1,800 scholars on H-Childhood; visual and textual dimensions are permanently available through the website of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. The second season of CHC was a collaboration of 7 episodes with Ning de Coninck-Smith and Martin Woodside. P. Ryan edited all the episodes, and wrote/hosted the following three