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Historic periodization is used to identify the eras, defined by broader societal movements, in which the nature of academic work in Canada has changed. Key narratives of crisis are identified, including: the post-WWII perspective that professors’ work was elite but mundane; the 1970s emphasis on poor working conditions and unionization; and the 1990s emphasis on diversity and inequity. The paper concludes by examining the current crisis in which a fragmented professoriate is facing market-driven working conditions, exacerbated by the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper argues that crises in academic work are sparked when there is tension between society’s expectations of professors and professors’self-perceptions of their role and contributions.  \nKeywords: Canadian professoriate, grand narratives, history, professional crises  \n* [grace.karram@utoronto.ca](grace.karram@utoronto.ca)  \nIt is frequently the case that when professors turn the lens of inquiry inward and scrutinize their own profession, they do so from an intersubjective epistemology intended to reveal inequities and spark change. Thus, much of the research on professors’ academic work or working conditions has sounded an alarm, calling attention to the particular problem or crisis that defined the academy at the point in time in which the study was undertaken. For example, in Watson’s The Professoriate: Occupation in Crisis published in 1985, the distinct political climate of the late 1970s and its influence on the academy are brought to life as the authors address the challenges of massification, gender parity, and fiscal austerity. Likewise in the 1990s, the large-scale surveys of Lennards (1990) and Nakhaie and Brym (1999) explore the political beliefs of professors, research that mirrored an era in which the ideological divides that defined the post-cold war had faded into uncertain terrain.  \nAlthough the importance of each study is evident in the era in which it is written , most are too quickly forgotten a decade later when the next crisis of the professoriate takes the stage. Individually these studies play an essential role in clarifying time-specific challenges, yet they should also be valued as a collective repertoire of scholarship from which to understand the evolving position of professors in Canada, collectively referred to as Canada’s professoriate. This paper argues the past 80 years of scholarship on Canada’s professoriate should be viewed collectively to understand the convergence of political, social, and economic events that shaped academic work in each era and contributed to new identities and crises among the professoriate. This analysis is paramount to understanding how professors respond to the external forces that reconfigure their working lives, which features of academic work persist amid change, and where there is evolution or adaptation over time.  \nTwo puzzles from public discourse motivate this historic reflection. First , the dramatic shift in public opinion about the prestige of an academic career in Canada between 1950 and 2007. In the introduction to their book, Historical Identities: The Professoriate in Canada, Stortz and Panayotidis (2006) reference a 1942 article in a student newspaper that labeled professors as“rather a sorry lot   [of] ivory towerists” (p. 3) , indicating a perceived detachment or irrelevance to the broader society. The latter author’s view is confirmed in several scholarly works in subsequent decades (Porter, 1965; Robson, 1966; Scarfe & Sheffield, 1977) . 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