Mark Leier

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mark Leier is a Canadian historian. Since 1994 he has been a professor at Simon Fraser University, focusing on working-class and left-wing history. He directed SFU's Centre for Labour Studies from 2000 to 2010. Leier was born in Ladner, British Columbia. Before attending university, he worked in various jobs, including as a union carpenter and a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He earned his PhD in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992. As part of the Graphic History Collective, he helped produce May Day: A Graphic History of Protest.