Sean Mills is professor and Canada Research Chair in Canadian and Transnational History at the University of Toronto. His research has addressed questions of migration, race, culture, political thought, gender, and empire. His first book, The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal (2010), was awarded the Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Award, and earned an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald Award/Governor General’s Award for Scholarly Achievement. Mills’ second major book, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016) won the Prix de la présidence de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec for the best book in Quebec politics, as well as the Clio-Québec Prize from the Canadian Historical Association.
The book also received an honourable mention for the Haitian Studies Association’s Avant Garde book prize, and was shortlisted for the Canada Prize and the Sir John A. Macdonald Award/Governor General’s Award for Scholarly Achievement. Mills’ most recent book, Montreal: A New History, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2027, and in French translation with Les Éditions du Boréal. He is currently working on a new project about art, culture, and social change.
