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Research Information

Research Description

- History of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, including Victoria and Vancouver Island
- History of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations
- History of race and racialization
- European colonialism in the Pacific
- Teaching with technology

Expertise profile

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Interdisciplinary Research

Dr. Lutz is involved in the multi-disciplinary NSERC-SSHRC funded Coasts Under Stress Project. For more information see the link from his website.

Research Keywords

Community Interaction

Community Projects

Dr. Lutz does historical research on Vancouver Island, including the history of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations, and directs a website on the history of Victoria www.victoriasvictoria.ca. He is also a partner with Dr. Patrick Dunae in the website on Vancouver Island history www.viHistory.ca.
With the History of Racialisation Group we have developed an online alternative walking tour of Victoria at web.uvic.ca/walktour.

Dr. Lutz has written about the history of Aboriginal-white relations locally and in British Columbia (see his CV on his website) and on a murder on Salt Spring Island at www.canadianmysteries.ca.
He is also involved in the "Coasts Under Stress" project looking at north coastal Vancouver Island, including Alert Bay.

Community Collaborations

Dr. Lutz is co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project.
He is also a director of the Archives Action Committee, the Society for the Promotion of B.C. History, the Margaret Ormsby Scholarship Committee and the Committee for the Preservation of BC History.

International Involvement

Countries lived/worked in

China