Dennis Molinaro
PhD
Academic Associate
Legal StudiesFaculty of Social Science and Humanities
Dr. Molinaro's research is focused on counter-intelligence, foreign interference, the history of intelligence and the use of emergency powers in peacetime.
Languages
English
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Areas of expertise
- BA - History Trent Univeristy 2003-2007
- MA - History Queen's University 2007-2008
- PhD - Canadian History, Intelligence and International Relations, North American Migration University of Toronto 2008-2015
- The Bridge in Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence. University of Toronto Press, 2021 (ASPP funded).
- An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Rise of the Emergency State, 1919-1936. Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 2017 (SSHRC and ASPP Funded). Ranked number 3 on The Hill Times 100 Best Books of 2017
- Deportation of Immigrants and Ethnics in Canadian History Booklet. Commissioned by the Canadian Historical Association as part of the “Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada/l’immigration et l’ethnicité au Canada” booklet series. Fall/Winter 2018.
- “In the Field of Espionage There’s No Such Thing As Peacetime, The Official Secrets Act and the PICNIC Wiretapping Program.” Canadian Historical Review 98 3 (September 2017).
- “How the Cold War Began…With British Help: The Gouzenko Affair Revisited.” Labour/Le Travail. Volume 79 (Spring 2017).
- “Citizens of the World: Law, Deportation and the Homo Sacer,1932-1934,” Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 3 (2015)143- 62.
- “Annihilation Without Representation: Canada, Cuba and the use of Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Polymath: An International Arts and Sciences Journal 4 4 (Fall 2014).
- “‘A Species of Treason?’ Deportation and Nation-Building: The Case of Tomo Čačić 1929-1934.” Canadian Historical Review 91 1 (March 2010): 61-85.
- “Section 98: The Trial of Rex v. Buck et al and the ‘State of Exception’ in Canada, 1919-1936.” In Wright, Barry, Susan Binnie, Eric Tucker eds. Canadian State Trials Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
- “Calculated Diplomacy: John Diefenbaker and the Origins of Canada’s Cuba Policy.” In Wright, Robert and Lana Wylie eds. Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era. eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- “My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File (review),” Surveillance & Society, (Fall 2018).
- “A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians and the Remaking of Quebec (review),” Labour/Le Travail 80 (Fall 2017).
- “Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada (review),” Canadian Ethnic Studies, Volume 48 1 (2016).
- “The Italians Who Built Toronto: Italian Workers and Contractors in the City’s Housebuilding Industry, 1950-1980 (review).” Labour/Le Travail (Spring 2016).
- “Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America(review).” Canadian Historical Review. Volume 94 1 (March 2013): 161-163.
- “Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics and Identity (review).” Canadian Historical Review 93 2 (2012): 332-334.
- LR Wilson Institute for Canadian History Post-Doctoral Fellowship. McMaster University, 2018.
- Roy McMurtry Fellowship. Awarded by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 2017-1018.
- Symons Award for Canadian Studies (2017)
- Award to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) for An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936.
- Peter Oliver Award for “Section 98: The Trial of Rex v. Buck et al and the ‘State of Exception’ in Canada, 1919-1936. Awarded by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 2016.
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2013-2014
- Margaret S. McCullough Scholarship in Canadian Historical Research, 2013
- Jeanne Armour Scholarship 2011-2013
- University of Toronto Fellowship 2010-2012
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship 2008-2011
- University of Toronto Coburn Graduate Student Admissions Award 2008
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2007-2008
- Queen’s Graduate Scholarship 2007
- Quaker Scholarship, Trent University 2007
- Modern espionage
- Human rights law
- Foundations of legal studies
- Sociology of law
- Legal research methods
- Integrating project
