Appointment of Dr. Michael Borsk as Assistant Professor of History 

Corpus Christi College proudly welcomes Dr. Michael Borsk as a full-time Assistant Professor of History, effective August 1, 2026. 

Dr. Borsk holds a PhD and MA from Queen’s University and an Honours BA from the University of Toronto. His fields of study include Empires, Colonialism, and Indigeneity; States, Politics, and Law; Spatial History and Map-making; Property Formation; and Economy, Society, and Technology.

“We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Borsk, whose scholarly work in North American history, cartography, and relations between indigenous peoples and Canadian institutions is first class,” said Dr. Paul Allen, Dean of Corpus Christi College.

Dr. Borsk previously taught undergraduate history at Queen’s University, where he was nominated for the Queen’s Department of History Graduate Teaching Award. In the course of his doctoral work, he was the Dunn Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Ealy American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Graduate Fellow with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University. His research has received several awards, including the Cromwell Dissertation Prize from the American Society for Legal History, the Jean-Marie Fecteau Prize from the Canadian Historical Association, and the Peter Oliver Prize from the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

His current academic work includes a manuscript, States of Measurement: Surveying Land and Law in the Early Great Lakes, and an article titled “Accounting for Partridge: Food and Value in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson’s Bay Company,” recently published in Enterprise and Society.

Prior to accepting this position at Corpus Christi College, Dr. Borsk was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. His record of teaching and scholarship will enrich Corpus Christi College’s academic offerings in history and the intellectual environment in the classroom.

“It’s a pleasure to join the vibrant community at Corpus Christi College at such an exciting time in its growth, and I look forward to contributing to its rich tradition of liberal arts education,” said Dr. Borsk.