Steven Bednarski (born 1973) is an award-winning Canadian historian of
the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment,
crime, sex, gender, and microhistory. He is notable for being awarded
an exceptionally high level of public research funding and for
piloting a trans disciplinary international research partnership
network. As a child, Bednarski also worked in Montreal, Quebec and
Toronto, Ontario as an actor.Steven Bednarski was born in 1973 to
Anglophone parents in Montreal. His mother was a homemaker and his
father a secondary school mathematics teacher. He has two younger
brothers. During his childhood, changes to the language laws of
Québec meant he was part of the first generation of English-speaking
Montreal school children afforded the opportunity to attend public
school equally in both English and French within the then-English
language Catholic School Board, the now-defunct Montreal
Baldwin-Cartier English Catholic School Board. In 1989, Bednarski’s
family moved from the Canadian francophone province of Québec to the
predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario.Bednarski currently
lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with his wife and children.At the age of
eight, Bednarski’s mother registered him and his siblings with a
local modelling agency and this opportunity soon led the siblings to
active careers as child actors.
the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment,
crime, sex, gender, and microhistory. He is notable for being awarded
an exceptionally high level of public research funding and for
piloting a trans disciplinary international research partnership
network. As a child, Bednarski also worked in Montreal, Quebec and
Toronto, Ontario as an actor.Steven Bednarski was born in 1973 to
Anglophone parents in Montreal. His mother was a homemaker and his
father a secondary school mathematics teacher. He has two younger
brothers. During his childhood, changes to the language laws of
Québec meant he was part of the first generation of English-speaking
Montreal school children afforded the opportunity to attend public
school equally in both English and French within the then-English
language Catholic School Board, the now-defunct Montreal
Baldwin-Cartier English Catholic School Board. In 1989, Bednarski’s
family moved from the Canadian francophone province of Québec to the
predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario.Bednarski currently
lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with his wife and children.At the age of
eight, Bednarski’s mother registered him and his siblings with a
local modelling agency and this opportunity soon led the siblings to
active careers as child actors.
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