The Department of Sociology and the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Present

Book Launch: Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022

Dr. Joel Z. Garrod,
Department of Sociology and Mulroney Fellow

September 19, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room,
4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre

The Department of Sociology and Mulroney Institute will be hosting a book launch for Dr. Joel Garrod’s new book, Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022 (University of Toronto Press). Royal Histories presents a historical analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada, examining the ways in which capitalism in Canada and the nation’s banking sector have evolved over time.

Discussant: Dr. Bhavik Parikh, Finance and Mulroney Fellow

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Dr. Joel Z. Garrod

Dr. Joel Z. Garrod is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at StFX and a Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Fellow. His research focuses on globalization, financialization, neoliberalism, corporate power, and the transformation of the nation-state. His research in these various areas is concerned with tracking the institutional reorientations whereby new global assemblages of territory, authority, and rights emerge out of still-existing national formations. His approach to these reorientations focuses on tracking changes to property relations - that is, the rights, entitlements, or obligations in or to things that allow a social formation to reproduce itself - and the practical and theoretical implications of those changes, especially as they relate to issues of power and social justice. He has published articles in Economy & Society, Studies in Political Economy, Science & Society, and the Journal of Canadian Studies, among others. His most recent book is Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022 published by the University of Toronto Press.