Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, Associate Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Her scholarship demonstrates that, in different and intersecting ways, transnational history and the history of childhood force us to look anew at the established frameworks, categories, methods, and sources that continue to shape the writing of modern Canadian history. She uses transnational history and the history of childhood and youth to propose new ways of analyzing and imagining individual lives and broader social structures of power, hierarchy, and violence. Her book Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s(UBC Press, 2017) received the Wilson Prize and the Canadian History of Education Association Founders’ Prize for Best English-Language Book, and was short-listed for the CHA’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize.

History Forum – Kristine Alexander

Publications

Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, & Andrew Burtch, eds. Small Stories of War: Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

Kristine Alexander & Simon Sleight, eds. A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (London: Bloomsury, 2023).

• Open Access

Kristine Alexander. “Emotions.” In A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire, edited by David Pomfret (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). 99-116.

Kristine Alexander, “Historicizing Age, Sex, and Agency,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 32, 2 (2022): 145-151.

Kristine Alexander, “Youth Culture and Indian Boarding Schools,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture, edited by James Marten. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 1-20.

Kristine Alexander & Mary Jane McCallum, “A Structural Pandemic: On Statues, Colonial Violence, and the Importance of History.” A 3-part series for Active History. December 2020.

• Part I (2 December 2020)
• Part II (3 December 2020)
• Part III (4 December 2020)

Kristine Alexander, Mischa Honeck & Isabel Richter, eds., “Mapping Modern Rejuvenation,” Journal of Social History 53, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 875-962.

Kristine Alexander, “Domestic Demobilization: Letters from the Children’s Page,” in Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War, edited by Tim Cook & J.L. Granatstein (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020), 177-189.

Kristine Alexander, “Why We Need Girls’ Studies.” Girl Museum Blog. June 2019.

Kristine Alexander, “Disciplines and Disciplining: Canadian History and/as Transnational History.” Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History (Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University). November 2018.

KarenVallgårda, Kristine Alexander, & Stephanie Olsen. “Against Agency.” Commentaries section of the Society for the History of Children & Youth (SHCY) website. October 2018.

Kristine Alexander, “Childhood and Colonialism in Canadian History,” History Compass 14, no. 9 (September 2016): 397-406.

Kristine Alexander, “Canadian Girls, Imperial Girls, Global Girls: Race, Nation and Transnationalism in the Interwar Girl Guide Movement,” in Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History, edited by Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry & Henry Yu (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 276-292.

Karen Vallgårda, Kristine Alexander, & Stephanie Olsen, “Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood,” in Childhood, Youth, and Emotions in Modern History, edited by Stephanie Olsen (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), 12-34.

Kristine Alexander, “Picturing Girlhood and Empire,” in Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, edited by Kristine Moruzi & Michelle Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 197-213.

Michel S. Beaulieu is the Associate Vice-Provost Academic (Special Projects) and an External Relations Associate at Lakehead University.

A Professor of History and past-Chair of the Department of History, his research is wide-ranging, but generally deals with historical political, economic, and social issues relating to Northern Ontario. Michel is the President of the Champlain Society, President of the Ontario Historical Society, Vice-President of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, President of the Thunder Bay Branch of the Canadian International Council, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

His work within the community and as a historian has been recognized by numerous awards. In 2019, he was awarded Lakehead University’s Distinguished Researcher Award, the highest honour conferred by Lakehead University for research and scholarly activity.

Publications

Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tonrud, and Jenna L. Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1915-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2018.

Beaulieu, Michel S. David. K. Ratz, Ronald N. Harpelle, eds. Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Zimmermann, Ernest Robert, Michel S. Beaulieu, and David K. Ratz. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

Beaulieu, Michel S. North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario. Toronto: James Lorimer, 2010.

Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35

The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R

North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario

Scott Berthelette has recently joined the Department of History at Queen’s University as a tenure-track faculty member in Indigenous history. He researches the history of Indigenous peoples, the Métis, the Fur Trade, and French-Indigenous relations in North America. Scott received his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan. In 2016, Scott published an article titled “‘Frères et Enfants du même Père’: The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731-1743” in the history journal Early American Studies. He also has a forthcoming article titled “New France and the Hudson Bay Watershed: Transatlantic Networks, Backcountry Specialists, and French Imperial Projects in post-Utrecht North America, 1713-1729” to be published in the Canadian Historical Review (CHR). Scott is a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation, the federally recognized self-government of the Métis people of Manitoba.

Publications

Berthelette, Scott. “Frères et Enfants du même Père” The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731-1743.” Early American Studies (Winter, 2016): 174-198

Berthelette, Scott. “The Making of a Manitoban Hero: Commemorating La Vérendrye in St. Boniface and Winnipeg 1886-1938.” Manitoba History 74 (Winter, 2014): 15-25.

Harold Bérubé is full professor at the Université de Sherbrooke. His academic background is in both History (Université de Montréal) and Urban Studies (INRS-UCS). He’s interested in the political and cultural history of North American cities and their inhabitants, and is a member of the Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal (UQAM) and of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (McGill University). He’s also co-editor of the Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine. His first book, Des sociétés distinctes. Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939, published with McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2014, looked at the construction of municipal governance in three of Montreal’s upper middle-class suburbs. More recently, he published a second book, Unité, autonomie, démocratie. Une histoire de l’Union des municipalités du Québec (1919-2019) (Boréal, 2019), where he examines the history of Quebec’s main municipal association and its role as mediator between municipalities, the Quebec provincial government and municipal transnational networks. He’s currently preparing a research project on the role of the press in the urban ecosystem.

Publications

Des sociétés distinctes Gouverner les banlieues bourgeoises de Montréal, 1880-1939

Unité, autonomie, démocratie: Une histoire de l’Union des municipalités du Québec

Arnaud Bessière est professeur adjoint au département d’histoire de l’Université Laurentienne à Sudbury et spécialiste de l’histoire de la Nouvelle-France. Il est chercheur associé au Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIÉQ) ainsi qu’à l’institut Wilson en histoire canadienne à l’Université McMaster. Auteur de plusieurs articles scientifiques et d’une synthèse sur l’histoire des Noirs au Québec, il poursuit actuellement ses recherches sur la main-d’œuvre domestique au Canada sous le régime français, et plus particulièrement sur le travail des femmes et des enfants.

Publications

La contribution des Noirs au Québec: quatre siècles d’une histoire partagée

Mikhail Bjorge is an assistant professor of History at Dalhousie University. Before arriving at Dalhousie, he taught history and political science at the University of Toronto and George Brown College. Holding a PhD from Queen’s University, he is primarily interested in the transnational nature of capitalism, work, and law, and writes broadly on political economy, labour, and enclosure.

Mikhail’s forthcoming book with the University of Toronto Press, The Workers War: Economic Democracy in Canada’s Industrial Homefront, 1939-1945, explores industrial unrest during the Second World War. With a particular focus on women, racialized minorities, and indigenous peoples, the study traces the diversity of shop floor militancy and working-class opposition to capitalism before the rise of the bureaucratic labour relations regime we know today.

Interested broadly in the global history of political economy, Dr. Bjorge’s ongoing research projects include Canadian macroeconomics, the matrixes of enclosure and colonialism, and labour unrest.

Publications

“No Model Minority: Tear Gas, Bayonets, Strikes, Resistance, Riot, and Struggle in Japanese Internment Camps.” In Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies, Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, eds., Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020.

“Anti-Foreign Strikes and the Patriotic Shield: Direct Action, Canadian Workers, and the Struggle Against the Employment of “Enemy Aliens” in WWII.” In Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947, Steven Marti and William Pratt, eds., Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019.

“‘They Shall Not Die!’ Anarchists, Syndicalists, Communists, and the Sacco and Vanzetti Solidarity Campaign in Canada,” Labour/Le Travail 75 (Spring 2015): 43–73.

Ben Bradley has written and edited several things about twentieth-century Canada, and may yet do more.

Publications

Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History

British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape

Dominique Brégent-Heald teaches in the History Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Western Historical Quarterly, American Review of Canadian Studies, Journal of Canadian Studies, and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She is the author of Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico and Canada during the Progressive Era (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), which examines the intersection of North American borderlands and culture as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema. Her current SSHRC-funded research project, Northern Getaway: The Tourism Film and Selling Canada explores the complex interplay between film and tourism in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.

Publications

Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada During the Progressive Era

Jeffrey Brison is Program Coordinator for Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and a founding member of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDi). An Associate Professor of History at Queen’s, he focuses on Canadian-American relations, cultural philanthropy, and the history of cultural policy formation in Canada and the United States. He is author of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada, a study that explores the influence of private American philanthropy on the making of a national culture in Canada. His current study, North Atlantic Men, examines the role philanthropic foundations played in fostering extra-national intellectual and cultural networks of power that connected Canada, the United States, and Great Britain from the end of the First World War to the early years of the Cold War. The study thus explores the function of U.S. philanthropy in the explicitly internationalist construction and reinforcement of the bonds of kinship and culture that were the moorings for the racialized imagined community that has, historically, been described by Winston Churchill and both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt (among many others) as the civilization of “English-speaking peoples,” and has recently been theorized critically as the “Anglosphere.”

Clint Bruce est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études acadiennes et transnationales (CRÉAcT) à l’Université Sainte-Anne; il y est également professeur au Département des sciences humaines et directeur de l’Observatoire Nord/Sud, ainsi que codirecteur de la revue Port Acadie. Le programme de recherche de la Chaire étudie l’évolution historique de la diaspora acadienne ainsi que ses transformations actuelles à l’ère numérique. Clint détient un doctorat en études francophones (Brown U) et une maîtrise en éducation (CUNY). Son édition bilingue de poésies engagées du XIXe siècle, Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition, est paru en 2020 aux presses de la Historic New Orleans Collection, et il dirige avec Gregory Kennedy le projet Repenser l’Acadie dans le monde : études comparées, études transnationales. Il prépare en ce moment un manuscrit de livre intitulé : L’expérience acadienne au temps de l’esclavage : Désirée Martin et les siens en Louisiane créole.

Publications

« Un savoir solidaire Nord-Sud : le Projet Louisiane et les enjeux de l’engagement », Recherches sociographiques (dossier thématique : « Postures canadiennes francophones de recherches conjointes », sous la direction de Jean-Marc Fontan et Marguerite Soulière) 59.1-2 (2018) : 243-266.

« Par tous les moyens nécessaires : l’assassinat de Constant Melançon, Acadien louisianais, par Toussaint, son esclave et camarade d’enfance », Histoire Engagée (dossier spécial : « Afro-Amériques : résistances, histoires et mémoires ») 29 mars 2018. Lire ici. [http://histoireengagee.ca/par-tous-les-moyens-necessaires-lassassinat-de-constant-melancon-acadien-louisianais-par-toussaint-son-esclave-et-camarade-denfance/]

« De 1866 à nos jours : les racines francophones de Black Lives Matter », Le Devoir, 30 juillet 2016. Lire ici. [https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/476662/de-1866-a-nos-jours-les-racines-francophones-de-black-lives-matter]

Istrouma: A Houma Manifesto / Manifeste Houma

Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition

Benjamin Bryce is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of To Belong in Buenos Aires (2018) and its Spanish-language translation Ser de Buenos Aires (2019). He also co-edited Entangling Migration History (2015), Making Citizens in Argentina (2017) and Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (2021).

Bryce is the principal investigator on the project Healing the Nation, which examines the role of immigrant-run hospitals and mutual aid societies in providing healthcare in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also working with colleagues on the SSHRC-funded project Settler Vines, a collaborative history of globalization through the lens of wine. He was awarded the University Excellence in Research Award in 2018 at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he taught for six years before joining UBC. He is a co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.

His full CV is available here and his website here.

Publications

To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society

Making Citizens in Argentina

Ser de Buenos Aires

Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada

Sean Carleton is an assistant professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia (UBC Press, 2023).

Publications

Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-class Struggle

Dr. Sarah Carr-Locke is the Director of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Culture and Heritage Division for the Government of the Northwest Territories (NWT). As Director of Culture and Heritage, her responsibilities include overseeing the NWT archaeology program, and geographic place names, NWT Archives, as well as a variety of arts and culture funding programs. In 2019, Sarah and the team won two awards for her curatorial role in the community-based multi-platform exhibit on RCMP Indigenous Special Constables in the Northwest Territories.

An expert in the museology and representations of Indigenous heritage in North American museums, Sarah’s research focuses on Indigenous rights over heritage management, archaeological ethics, collaborative and community-based archaeology, and Indigenous representations in museums. While writing her dissertation, “Indigenous Heritage and Public Museums: Exploring Collaboration and Exhibition in Canada and the United States,” she was deeply involved in the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project (https://www.sfu.ca/ipinch/) as a doctoral fellow and research associate. Sarah is currently an adjunct professor in the Archaeology Department of Simon Fraser University and a Research Associate with the Aurora College Research Institute. She is the co-editor of the academic journal Museums and Social Issues.

Publications

Carr-Locke, S. 2015. Indigenous Heritage in Public Museums: Exploring Collaboration and Exhibition in Canada and the United States. PhD Dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. [http://summit.sfu.ca/item/15622]

Carr-Locke, S. (curator) 2018. They Took Care of Us: Special Constables in the NWT (museum exhibit/website/travelling exhibit), Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NT.[https://www.pwnhc.ca/item/they-took-care-of-us-rcmp-special-constables-in-the-nwt/]

Carr-Locke, S. and Nicholas, G. Working Towards Greater Equity and Understanding: Examples of Collaborative Archaeology and Museum Initiatives with Indigenous Peoples in North America. In Museums and Archaeology. Edited by R. Skeates. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, Routledge. pp. 608-616.

Carr-Locke, S. (curatorial contributor) 2016. This Land is Our Home: Wıìlıìdeh Yellowknives Dene (museum exhibit), Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NT.

Dr. Mary Chaktsiris was an Assistant Professor at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History in 2018-2020 and is an associate of the Wilson Institute. She holds the inaugural Cleghorn Fellowship in War & Society at Wilfrid Laurier University with cross-appointment to the Department of History and Laurier Center for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS).

Her research interests include gender, the First World War, commemoration, and identifications of “the enemy” in wartime Canada. Currently, Chaktsiris’ research explores the experiences of Canadian First World War veterans in the years and decades after the Great War. Her research has been published in journals including Social History/Histoire Sociale and War & Society, in addition to collections including From Memory to History edited by Jonathan Vance and published by UBC Press. She is also a co-editor of ActiveHistory.ca’s First World War series, and is currently completing a manuscript based on her PhD research.

Publications

“No Free Man: Canada, The Great War, and The Enemy Alien Experience,” Immigrants & Minorities 36 (1): 72-7

“Our Boys With the Maple Leaf on Their Shoulders and Straps’: Masculinity, the Toronto Press, and the Outbreak of the South African War, 1899,” War & Society 32 (1), 3-25

“‘Not unless Necessary’: Student Responses to War Work at the University of Toronto, 1914-1918,” Histoire sociale/Social history 47 (94), 293-310

“Identifying the Enemy in First World War Canada: The Historiography and Bureaucracy of Enemy Alien Internment and Registration,” Canadian Military History 28 (2), 19p.

Lisa Chilton is an associate professor in the History Department, a member of the graduate faculty of the Master of Arts in Island Studies, and the director of a new program in Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her areas of research and publishing expertise are the history of international migrations and the history of British cultural imperialism, especially as they relate to Pre-World War Two Canada. Her publications include Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860s-1930 (University of Toronto Press, 2007), articles and chapters in multiple journals and edited collections (one of which won a CHA article prize in 2016), and a CHA booklet in the Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada Series, titled: Receiving Canada’s Immigrants: The Work of the State Before 1930 (2016). She is currently writing a book on the history of Canadian immigration from the 1760s to the Great Depression.

Publications

Agents of empire

Receiving Canada’s Immigrants: The Work of the State Before 1930

Rachel Collishaw is president of the Social Studies Educator’s Network of Canada – Réseau pour l’enseignement des Sciences Sociales du Canada (SSENC-RESSC), a network that brings together social studies teachers’ associations from all provinces and territories. She is also president of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association (OHASSTA). She is currently seconded to Elections Canada, where she is a Senior Education Specialist, developing civic education resources and delivering professional learning to teachers across Canada.

She is a recipient of the 2013 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching, for her work in innovative teaching around historical thinking and inquiry learning. She is a partner in The Collaborative, a McMaster-based project that works to connect post-secondary and secondary educators to support student inquiry in the humanities classroom. She represents OHASSTA on the executive board of the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future partnership grant, directed by Carla Peck at the University of Alberta.

An experienced and award-winning secondary social studies teacher, Rachel has been a cross-curricular literacy instructional coach supporting teachers in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and a social science and history teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute and Dannevirke High School, New Zealand. She is the author of several textbooks and learning resources that embed and support historical thinking and inquiry learning.

Publications

History 8 (Reviewer – 2016)

History 7 (Writer/reviewer – 2015)

History Uncovered (2014)

Social Science, An Introduction (2011)

Elections Canada Civic Education Resources (2018-present)

Re:Weaving History (blog for teachers 2016-present)

Canada’s History Revised Lesson Plans (2017) – including this one on Japanese Internment and Historical Perspectives

Afua Cooper is the immediate past James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian studies at Dalhousie University. A Leading expert in African Canadian and African Diaspora history, she has done ground-breaking work in bringing Black Canadian history to the fore through her research, teaching, public speaking, publications, and other forms of knowledge mobilization. She is professor of Black Studies at Dalhousie University. Afua recently chaired the scholarly panel investigating Dalhousie’s relationship to race and slavery, and is the lead author of the Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race. An academic leader, Dr. Cooper co-ordinates the Black Studies Minor at Dalhousie. Additionally, she founded the Black Canadian Studies Association, and the Dalhousie Black Faculty and Staff Caucus. For her achievements in and contributions to history, especially that of African Canadians, education, and the arts Dr. Cooper has received numerous awards including the Harry Jerome Award for Professional excellence, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission award, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) website feature for her historical work. Afua is the series editor for the recently-launched Henry and Mary Bibb Black Canadian Studies Series at the University of Regina Press. Currently Halifax’s Poet Laureate, Afua is an accomplished poet and novelist.

Publications

My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom

The Hanging of Angelique

Maxime Dagenais is the Research Facilitator for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. He was a L.R. Wilson postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014, a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2016, and from 2016-21 he was the coordinator of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History. He received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Ottawa.
A historian of New France, British North America, and early America, he is the co-author (with Béatrice Craig) of The Land in Between. The Upper St. John Valley, Prehistory to World War One and the co-editor (with Julien Mauduit) of Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion. His articles have appeared in Canadian Military History, Canadian Journal of Media Studies, Australasian-Canadian Studies, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Bulletin d’histoire politique, Quebec Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Enjeux de l’univers social, and The Conversation.

He is currently on the executive committee of a SSHRC Partnership Grant project – Thinking Historically about Canada’s Future – which seeks to reassess history education in K-12 across Canada. He is also working on a general history of the Canadian Rebellion – The Canadian Rebellion, 1750-1842 – with Julien Mauduit.

The American South, Slavery in the United States and the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38

Publications

“Une opportunité manquée: la Rébellion canadienne (1837-38) dans les manuels scolaires au Canada.” Enjeux de l’univers social 16, No 2 (December 2020): 29-32.

“La Rébellion au-delà des frontières nationales: clarifier la discussion.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 28, No 2 (Summer 2020): 170-76. With Julien Mauduit.

“Research Note: The Canadian Rebellion, the American South, and Slavery.” American Review of Canadian Studies 49, No 4 (Winter 2019-20): 563-572.

“The Canadian Rebellion and Jacksonian America: A Connection Decades in the Making.” Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019, pp.  3-24.

“[…] those who had money were opposed to us, and those who were our friends were not the moneyed class.” Philadelphia and the 1837-38 Canadian Rebellion.” American Review of Canadian Studies 48 (Spring 2017): 1-17.

“‘La mort du conseil spécial est la meilleure action que ce corps ait faite durant sa vie […]’: The French Canadian Press and the Special Council of Lower-Canada, 1838-41.” Quebec Studies 62 (December 2016): 25-46.

“‘L’histoire dira que Lord Durham a préféré une petite faction, et l’exposera comme une des aberrations humaines de notre époque.’ Comment Lord Durham perdit le support des Canadiens-français.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 23, No. 2 (Winter 2015): 181-203.

“‘Une Permission! … C’est bon pour une recrue.’ Discipline and Illegal Absences in the 22^nd (French-Canadian) Battalion, 1915-1919.” Canadian Military History 18, No. 4 (Autumn 2009): 3-16.

Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion

The Land in Between: The Upper St. John Valley, Prehistory to World War I

Originally from Timmins, Ontario, James Daschuk has a B.A. from Trent University and an M.A. and PhD in Canadian History from the University of Manitoba. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina. His book, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Indigenous Life has sold more than twenty thousand copies and was named one of the twenty five most influential books of the last twenty five years by the Literary Review of Canada in addition to winning the Governor General’s Medal in History in 2014.

Publications

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

Scott de Groot is a Curator at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He holds a PhD in history from Queen’s University, and is currently completing a book on the transnational, intellectual, and communications history of the gay liberation movement across the Anglo-American world. Scott is also researching the contemporary history and circulation of Two-Spirit as an Indigenous concept, identity, and decolonization project. His research has been supported by fellowships held at the University of London, the University of Melbourne, Cornell University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and the Newberry Library.

At the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Scott is curating a major exhibition on government efforts to identify and fire LGBTQ2+ members of the Canadian military, RCMP, and civil service from the 1950s to the 1990s. Scheduled to launch in 2023, the exhibition will balance attention to discrimination and trauma with explorations of LGBTQ2+ resistance and activism. In addition to telling the story of this government-driven purge, the exhibition will re-examine broader themes in Canadian history through a queer lens, and invite visitors to take action on human rights issues facing LGBTQ2+ communities today.

An award-winning educator, Scott has designed and taught courses in the history of sexuality, Canadian history, and historical research methods. He also has considerable experience in the field of continuing education, and recently led the development and design of new programming at the University of Manitoba’s Division of Extended Education. This programming was oriented towards the academic and professional needs of adult, Indigenous, newcomer, and first-generation students, and employed online and blended learning technologies.

Publications

“‘We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters!’ Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation,” Queer Youth Histories, ed. Daniel Marshall (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

“Law Reform, Liberal Democracies, and the Transnational History of Gay Liberation,” No Place for the State: The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill, eds. Christopher Dummitt and Christabelle Sethna (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming 2020)

“‘A Curse on Those Who Need Heroes’? Genealogical Appropriation and the Historical Horizons of Gay Liberation, 1969-1975,” Left History, 19.1 (Spring/Summer 2015)

Robert Dennis is an intellectual and religious historian with a specialization in Roman Catholicism; who is currently writing a history of St. Dunstan’s University from 1955 to 1969. Dr. Dennis has recently completed a manuscript on how transatlantic developments in Catholic social thought influenced the formation of social Catholicism in English Canada during the Depression and Second World War years. This study focused on how Catholic intellectuals across the country engaged normative assumptions in classic liberalism and social democracy, reframing them, often with great radicalism, within frameworks of neo-Thomist/personalist and distributist philosophies. This project situated the experience of the Canadian Church within the broader context European Catholicism and international Catholic social thought as the Church restructures in the decades before the Second Vatican Council. Dr. Dennis is happy to speak to the academy, community, or media on any aspect of Roman Catholicism and invites interested parties to be in contact with him.

Publications

Dennis, Robert H. “Forever Proud? From Public to Private Space: the Montreal Canadiens Transition from the Forum to the Molson Centre,” in Andrew Holman (ed), Canada’s Game? Critical Perspectives on Hockey and Identity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).

Dennis, Robert H. “Beginning to Restructure the Institutional Church: Canadian Social Catholics and the CCF, 1931-1944,” Historical Studies, 74 (2008): 51-71.

Dennis, Robert H. and Gregory S. Kealey et al., “Knowledge Movement in Response to Coastal BC Oil and Gas Development: Past, Present and Future,” in John Lutz and Barbara Neis (eds), Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

“Social-Ecological Health and the History of Non-Renewable Resources on the East and West Coasts,” in Rosemary Ommer (ed), Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health in Coastal Communities (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

Helen Dewar is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Université de Montréal. She is currently completing her manuscript entitled Contested Delegations: Subjects, Sovereignty and Law in the French Atlantic, 1598-1663. Her research focuses on the intersections among early modern state and empire formation, the legal history of empire, and the development of large capitalist organizations.

Publications

“Litigating Empire: the Role of French Courts in Establishing Colonial Sovereignties,” Richard Ross and Lauren Benton, eds., Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (New York University Press, 2013), 49-79;

“Government by Trading Company?: The Corporate Legal Status of the Company of New France and Colonial Governance,” Yann Ligneureux et François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds., “Gouverner de manière impériale: Expériences françaises et ibériques aux Amériques (XVIe-XIXe siècle),” Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos, June 2018.

Elizabeth Ellis is an associate professor of history at Princeton University where she teaches early American and Native American history. Prior to joining Princeton, she was an assistant professor of History at New York University and director of NYU’s Native Studies forum. Her first book “The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South,” examined the formation of Native nations in the early southeast and the ways that Indigenous migration and immigration practices shaped and limited the extent of European colonization. She is currently working on a project on early Indigenous iconography and is part of a collaborative research initiative with the Miami and Peoria tribes that is focused on reclaiming historical stories and material culture for their communities. Liz also writes about contemporary Indigenous issues and political movements and is committed to organizing and fighting for Indigenous self-determination. She is a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

Dr. Elizabeth Ellis Guest Speaker on ‘Beyond Standing Rock’

Publications

Elizabeth Ellis, “Dismantling the Dream of ‘France’s Peru’: Indian and African Influences on the Development of Early Colonial Louisiana,” The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook (Routledge, 2017)

François Furstenberg teaches in the history department at Johns Hopkins University, where his research focuses on the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From 2003 to 2014, Furstenberg taught US history at the Université de Montréal. His current research is on the early American West, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner, as well as on print culture and early American cultural and intellectual history more broadly.

Publications

In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

Catherine Gidney is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at St. Thomas University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Her research has focused on the intersecting histories of youth, education, health, religion and consumerism. Her publications include: Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019), Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health and the Modern University (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), and A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). She has co-edited three books: with M. Dawson and D. Wright, eds. Symbols of Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018); with L. Campbell and M. Dawson, eds. Worth Fighting For: Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015); with M. Dawson and S. Klausen, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015). Her current projects include forays into the history of emotions, second-wave feminism, and mindfulness and therapeutic culture.

Publications

Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools

Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University

A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970

Karine Hébert est professeure au Département des lettres et humanités de l’UQAR et directrice du module d’histoire. Elle travaille en histoire des femmes, de la jeunesse, et elle s’intéresse depuis quelques années à l’histoire du patrimoine au Québec et à celle des communautés religieuses féminines dans l’Est-du-Québec. Sa thèse de doctorat a été publiée en 2008 sous le titre Impatient d’être soi-même. Les étudiants montréalais, 1895-1960. Récemment, elle a dirigé, en collaboration avec Julien Goyette, le collectif Entre disciplines et indiscipline, le patrimoine, paru aux Presses de l’Université du Québec. Elle est vice-présidente de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française depuis 2015 et à ce titre elle est responsable du nouveau comité d’intervention publique.

Publications

Histoire et idées du patrimoine
Entre régionalisation et mondialisation

Impatient d’être soi-même
Les étudiants montréalais, 1895-1960

Ailsa Henderson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, where she conducts research on comparative sub-state political behaviour, nationalism and civic engagement. Her research explores regional variations in attitudes and behaviour within and across states, as well as perceptions of regional political cultures. Originally from Canada, her research often compares Scotland and Quebec and she is part of the Provincial Diversity Project led by Antoine Bilodeau, Concordia University. She currently heads the Scottish Election Study, co-directs the Future of England Survey and sits on both the Boundary Commission for Scotland and Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Formerly working groups chair of the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform she is currently part of the independent research team for the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland.

Publications

Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau, Ailsa Henderson and Eve Hepburn (2018) The National Question and Electoral Politics in Quebec and Scotland McGill-Queen’s University Press

Ailsa Henderson, Charlie Jeffery and Daniel Wincott, Eds, (2013) Citizenship After the Nation State: Regionalism, Nationalism and Public Attitudes in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Ailsa Henderson, Ed (2011) Why Regions Matter: Small Worlds in Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge

Ailsa Henderson (2007) Hierarchies of Belonging: National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press

Robert Liñeira and Ailsa Henderson (2019) “Risk Attitudes and Independence Vote Choice” Political Behavior Online First: https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/risk-attitudes-and-independence-vote-choice/17032814

Ailsa Henderson, Steven D. Brown and S. Mark Pancer (2019) “Curriculum Requirements and Subsequent Civic Engagement: Is there a difference between ‘forced’ and ‘free’ community service?” British Journal of Sociology 70(4): 1297-1322

Luc Turgeon, Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen E. White and Ailsa Henderson (2019) “A Tale of Two Liberalisms? Attitudes toward Minority Religious Symbols in Quebec and Canada” Canadian Journal of Political Science 52(2): 247-65

Rhonda L. Hinther is an Associate Professor of History at Brandon University (BU) and an active public historian. Her research interests include oral history, gender and women’s history, migration history, internment history, and the history of radical activism in Canada. Prior to joining Brandon University, Hinther served as Director of Research and Curation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and, before that, as Curator of Western Canadian History at the Canadian Museum of History. She has curated numerous museum exhibitions and has consulted on and appeared in several historical films. The documentary “The Oldest Profession in Winnipeg: the ‘Red Light District of 1909-1912,” based on her research, won the 2012 CHA Public History Prize. She is presently collaborating on a virtual reality project recreating life in a Brandon, Manitoba WWI-era internment camp.

Hinther’s written work has been published in Manitoba History, Atlantis, Oral History Forum, and Labour/le travail. Her article, “Raised in the Spirit of the Class Struggle: Children, Youth, and the Interwar Ukrainian Left in Canada” (Labour/le travail, 2007) won the 2007 Canadian Historical Association’s (CHA) Neil Sutherland Prize. Hinther is co-editor with Jim Mochoruk of Re-imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies (forthcoming 2020, University of Manitoba Press). Her most recent book, a 2019 Wilson Prize Finalist, is entitled Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991 (University of Toronto Press, 2018). She is presently writing a book on the extended Walsh/Weir/Boyd/Steele family’s World War II internment experiences.

Publications

Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity

Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991

Laura Ishiguro is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of British Columbia, and a hāfu settler on unceded Musqueam territory. An historian of Canada and the British Empire, she currently focuses on settler colonialism, family, and the everyday in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.

Publications

L. Ishiguro, “How I wish I might be near: distance and the epistolary family in late nineteenth-century condolence letters”, in Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History, K. Dubinsky, Perry, A., and Yu, H. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015, pp. 212-227.

E. Cleall, Ishiguro, L., and Manktelow, E. J., “Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire”, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 14, p. N_A, 2013.

Gregory Kennedy est directeur scientifique de l’Institut d’études acadiennes depuis le 1er mai 2015 et également professeur titulaire en histoire à l’Université de Moncton. Il s’intéresse principalement à l’histoire acadienne, et cela dans un cadre comparatif et transatlantique. Ses travaux sont publiés dans plusieurs revues savantes dont La Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Histoire sociale – Social History et Acadiensis. Pour son premier ouvrage, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755, (Montreal-Kingston, McGill-Queens’ University Press, 2014), il a reçu le prix CLIO de la Société historique du Canada pour le meilleur ouvrage scientifique portant sur l’histoire du Canada atlantique. Cet ouvrage est également traduit en français chez la maison d’édition Septentrion (2021). Son deuxième ouvrage en cours s’intitule Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War et paraître en 2024. Actuellement, Kennedy co-dirige deux projets de partenariat. Le premier, Repenser l’Acadie dans le monde : études comparées, études transnationales, s’agit d’une collaboration avec Clint Bruce, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études acadiennes et transnationales à l’Université Sainte-Anne et une vingtaine de chercheuses et chercheurs en études acadiennes. Ce projet est notamment le fruit d’une collaboration avec l’institut Wilson. Le deuxième, Service militaire, citoyenneté et culture politique au Canada atlantique, 1700-2000, est financé par le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (CRSH) et concerne le développement d’un partenariat avec l’University of New Brunswick. Finalement, Kennedy travaille en guise de co-chercheur avec Yves Frenette, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 1 sur les migrations, les transferts et les communautés francophones, sur le projet de grande envergure Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940), également financé par le CRSH.

Publications

Something of a Peasant Paradise?: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755

Valerie J Korinek is a Professor of Modern Canadian history at the University of Saskatchewan, and Vice Dean Faculty Relations in the College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan. Originally from Toronto, she holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in Canadian cultural and gendered histories. She is an award-winning teacher and scholar, recognized with the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teacher, College of Arts and Science (2017). A specialist in gendered, sexualities and cultural histories, she has published widely on feminist media and activism, oral history methodologies, food history and urban/regional histories of sexuality. Her most recent publication, Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (UTP, 2018) has received numerous honours, including the Saskatchewan Book Awards Jennifer Walsh Scholarly Writing Award (2019), the Clio Prize for Prairie History, Canadian Historical Association (2019), and the Canadian Studies Network Best Book Prize (2019). Previously, her work on Chatelaine magazine Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties (UTP, 2000) was awarded the Laura Jamieson Prize for the Best Feminist Book from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (2001). She is the co-editor of Edible Histories, Cultural Politics (UTP, 2012) and Finding a Way to the Heart (University of Manitoba Press, 2012).

Her current SSHRC funded research project, Love + Litigation = Marriage: Canadian Same-Sex Marriage and Its International Implications explores the legal, social and cultural implications of changing family and marriage laws that extended marriage rights to queer couples. In particular, Korinek’s research seeks to historicize how changing Canadian laws contributed to a succession of international same-sex marriage acquisition lawsuits and advocacy in a variety of different national contexts, including: England, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South Africa, Hong Kong and the United States.

Publications

Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History

Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985

Dr. Kathryn Labelle is an Associate Professor of Aboriginal history at the University of Saskatchewan and an adopted member of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas. Her research centres on the Wendat/Wyandot/Huron communities of North America with particular interest in settler colonialism, Indigenous identity and the experiences of women from the seventeenth century to the present. In addition to publishing articles on Wendat child-rearing, witchcraft, warfare, and leadership, Labelle is the author of the award-winning book Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth Century Wendat People (UBC Press, 2013). Her current research is a collaborative project with the Wendat Longhouse Women entitled Daughters of Aataentsic that explores the lives of seven Wendat women from the 17th-21st centuries.

Publications

Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People

From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900

Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert (Ph. D. Histoire, Université de Montréal, 2014) est archiviste à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Ses intérêts de recherche sont l’histoire du tourisme, l’histoire environnementale du Canada et celle des transports. Sa thèse de doctorat porte sur la création des territoires touristiques au Québec et en Ontario sous l’impulsion du tourisme automobile (1920-1967). L’une de ses contributions a remporté un prix à l’échelle nationale (Prix Hilda-Neatby 2011 de la Société historique du Canada pour le meilleur article en français sur l’histoire des femmes et le genre). Elle a contribué à deux ouvrages collectifs : Une histoire de la politesse au Québec. Normes et déviances du XVIIe au XXe siècle (2015) et Moving Nature: Environment and Mobility in Canadian History (2016) publiés respectivement chez Septentrion et aux Presses de l’Université de Calgary. Ses travaux de recherche actuels portent sur l’industrie touristique au Québec et en Ontario après 1967, la participation de ces provinces à des organismes touristiques transnationales, la notion de biorégion ainsi que la production des paysages routiers et des paysages culturels patrimoniaux.

Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert (PhD in History, Université de Montréal, 2014) is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Her research focuses on tourism history, environmental history and the history of transportation in Canada. Her dissertation has reflected on how the growth of the personal automobile contributed to the creation of tourist regions in Québec and Ontario (1920-1967). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Hilda Neatby Prize presented by the Canadian Historical Association for the best article in French on the history of women and gender. She contributed to two collective works: Une histoire de la politesse au Québec. Normes et déviances du XVIIe au XXe siècle (2015) and Moving Nature: Environment and Mobility in Canadian History (2016) published respectively by Septentrion and the Calgary University Press. Her current research is on the tourist industry in Québec and Ontario beyond 1967, the participation of the two provinces in transnational tourist organizations, the notion of bioregion as well as the production of roadscapes and cultural heritage landscapes.

Publications

“Automobile Tourism in Québec and Ontario: Development, Promotion and Representations, 1920-1945.” In Ben Bradley, Colin Coates and Jason Young, eds. Moving Natures: Environment and Mobility in Canadian History (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016), 299‒322.

“À travers le pare-brise : la création des territoires touristiques au Québec et en Ontario (1920‒1945).” In Stéphane Castonguay and Dany Fougères, eds. “Territoire et Environnement”. Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 68 (Winter‒Spring 2015): 271‒299.

“Québécoises et Ontariennes en voiture! L’expérience culturelle et spatiale de l’automobile au féminin.” RHAF 63 (Fall 2009‒Winter 2010): 305‒330.

Brittany Luby, Anishinaabe-kwe, is an award-nominated educator who joined the University of Guelph in January 2017. Outside of the  classroom, Luby seeks to stimulate public discussion of Indigenous issues  through her critical  and creative work. The Canadian Historical Association has described Luby’s research as “innovative in its structure and responsive to Indigenous research methodologies.” Her historical work can be found in periodicals such as the  Canadian Bulletin of  Medical History and the  Canadian Journal of Native Studies. Her poetry can be found in literary magazines like Red Ink. Her first children’s book, Encounter, was published by Tundra in October 2019.

Publications

Dammed. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, forthcoming fall 2020.

“From Milk-Medicine to Public (Re)Education Programs: An Examination of Anishinabek Mothers’ Responses to Hydroelectric Flooding in the Treaty #3 District, 1900-1975,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 32, no. 2 (2015): 363-89.

Writing for Children

Encounter. Toronto: Tundra, 2019.

Daniel Macfarlane is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability, Geography, and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. Daniel is the author or co-editor of five books dealing with various aspects of Canada-US environmental history, particularly in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin. He is the President of the International Water History Association and co-editor of the book series “Environmental Studies of the Great Lakes” with Michigan State University Press.

Publications

The First Century of the International Joint Commission

Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway

Jennifer Marotta is a Professor of Humanities at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Her teaching is interdisciplinary in nature and encompasses the History of the Body, Gender Studies, Women’s History in North America, and Canadian Cultural History. As part of the faculty team that teaches GNED 101: Introduction to Arts and Sciences she developed a unit of online materials for Ecampus Ontario. After obtaining a Specialized Honours BA in History at the University of Guelph, she completed both her MA, “Constructing the Norm: Medical Advice Literature to Adolescents in Canada, 1873-1922” and her Ph.D., “A Moral Messenger to the Canadian Middlemost: A Reading of the Family Herald and Weekly Star,1874 –1914” at Queen’s University. She is a member of the Equity Task force at Humber and is developing face-to-face-training and an e-module on Implicit Bias and Equity Issues within Hiring Committees. Alongside Daniel Hambly, she is co-chair of the Annual Interdisciplinary Academic Conference HUMBER@TIFA which takes place during the Toronto International Festival of Authors every Autumn at the Harbourfront Centre. The two-day conference facilitates cross-disciplinary discussions among emerging and established scholars, researchers, educators, and the public. Recent keynotes have included Civil Rights activist Angela Davis, Consent advocate Farrah Khan, Journalist Chris Hedges, and ACLU president Susan N. Herman.

Publications

Marotta, Jennifer Susan. “Kissing Daddy Good-Bye: Children on Liberty, Loss, and Longing within the Family Herald and Weekly Star, 1914-1918” in Hambly, D and Salem-Wiseman, L. (Eds.) Representing World War I: Perspectives at the Centenary. Toronto: Humber Press, 2015. pp. 244-260.

Karen Marrero is Associate Professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit. A comparative and transnational historian of the United States and Canada and the northern border, her work explores interactions between seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans in the Great Lakes. Her work has appeared in journals and edited collections and her book Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the 18th Century, was published jointly in 2020 by Michigan State University Press and University of Manitoba Press.

Publications

Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century

Jamie Murton is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the graduate program in Environmental Sciences/Studies at Nipissing University. His research is in the agricultural and environmental history of Canada, particularly the history of subsistence production and its relationship to capitalist and global markets for food. He is an executive member of NiCHE (Network in Canadian History of the Environment) and a member of the editorial board of NiCHE’s blog The Otter and is, with R.W. Sandwell and Colin Duncan, academic editor of the McGill-Queen’s Rural, Wildland and Resource Studies Series. His teaching seeks to engage students with history through experiential and active learning, focused on getting outside in northern Ontario; he teaches courses in global and Canadian agricultural history, food history, Canadian environmental and rural history, and environmental studies. He tweets @jamiemurton.

Publications

Canadians and their Natural Environments: Survival from 20,000 Years Ago to the Present. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (edited with Dean Bavington and Carly Dokis). Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.

Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Winner of the K.D. Srivastava Prize for excellence in scholarly publishing.

“John Bull and Sons: The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of an Imperial Food System,” in Franca Iacovetta, Valerie Korinek, and Marlene Epp, eds., Edible Histories: Towards a Canadian Food History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia

Kirk Niergarth is a historian of Canada in the interwar period with longstanding interest in Canadian visual culture.  He is at work on a book about Canadians who visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s.  His first book ‘The Dignity of Every Human Being’:  New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture Between the Great Depression and the Cold War was published in 2015.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.

Publications

“The Dignity of Every Human Being”: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture Between the Great Depression and the Cold War

Jason Opal is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill. He studies colonial North America, the American Revolution, and New World slavery, as well as more general topics in the history of capitalism, law, and the family. He is the author of Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation (Oxford U. Press, 2017) and Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), as well as articles in the Journal of American History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and Studies in American Political Development. His opinion pieces and short essays on American politics and race relations have recently appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Walrus, The Conversation, Jacobin, and other outlets in the United States and Canada. His new projects are Most Noble Island: Three Ages of Barbados in the Early Americas and a co-authored history of medical disasters in North America.

Publications

Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

Common Sense and Other Writings

Beyond the farm

Ayant obtenu en 1995 son doctorat en histoire de l’Université Laval, Martin Pâquet est actuellement professeur titulaire au Département des sciences historiques de l’Université Laval. Depuis 2010, il est aussi le titulaire de la Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d’expression française en Amérique du Nord. Œuvrant en anthropologie historique, il s’intéresse aux multiples expressions des cultures politiques au Québec, au Canada et dans les francophonies nord-américaines depuis les Révolutions de la fin du 18e et du début du 19e siècle jusqu’à nos jours. Ses intérêts s’étendent aussi aux études migratoires dans une perspective transnationale. Il est l’auteur, seul ou en co-direction, de 18 ouvrages scientifiques, dont Tracer les marges de la Cité. Étranger, Immigrant et État au Québec, 1627-1981 (Montréal, Boréal, 2005) et, de pair avec Marcel Martel, Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec. Une synthèse historique (Montréal, Boréal, 2011).

Having obtained his Ph.D. degree in history in 1995 from Université Laval, Martin Pâquet is currently Full Professor in the Department of Historical Sciences at Laval University. Since 2010, he is also the holder of the Chair for the Development of Research on French Speaking Culture in North America (CEFAN). Working in historical anthropology, he is interested in the many expressions of political culture in Quebec, Canada and the North American Francophonies since the revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th century to the present day. His research interests also extend to migration studies from a transnational perspective. He is the author, alone or in co-direction, of 18 scientific works, including Tracer les marges de la Cité. Étranger, Immigrant et État au Québec, 1627-1981 (Montréal, Boréal, 2005) and, with Marcel Martel, Speaking Up: A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (Toronto, Between the Lines, 2012), and, with Stéphane Savard, Brève histoire de la Révolution tranquille (Boréal, 2021).

Publications

Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec

Tracer les marges de la Cité

Liza Piper is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where she teaches environmental history and the histories of northern and western Canada. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009) and two edited collections, Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing with Jon Clapperton (2019) and Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (2015) with Lisa Szabo-Jones. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the histories of disease, resources, and climate in Canadian and circumpolar contexts. She is also very active in interdisciplinary mountain studies, through her work on strip mining in the Rockies, and as co-chair of the Thinking Mountains international conference (2018).

Publications

The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada

Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

Paige Raibmon is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is a settler scholar and mother who has lived and worked for most of her life on the unceded ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. She is currently the editor of BC Studies and was recently a CIFAR Fellow from 2015-2019. Her research has engaged a range of questions united by a preoccupation with Indigenous peoples’ endurance and resurgence in the face of settler colonialism’s historical workings and on-going implications. She has particular interests in the digital humanities, collaborative methodology, life history, microhistory, women’s history, oral history, public history, environmental justice, and the political implications of cultural representation. Her first book Authentic Indians (Duke 2005) used microhistory to explore some of the ways that Indigenous individuals and families in the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries configured labour, performance, identity, and futurity in novel ways. She has recently been engaged in a long-term collaboration with the ɬaʔamin Elder Elsie Paul and two of Paul’s grandchildren. Their latest effort is an open access digital book that challenges conventional production processes and forms–as well as content–of historical narratives about Indigenous peoples in settler colonial contexts.

Publications

Authentic Indians

Written As I Remember It: Teachings from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

John Sandlos is a professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he teaches courses in environmental and Canadian history. His research has focused primarily on issues of wildlife conservation and mining in northern Canada, and he is starting to develop an interest in histories of occupational and environmental health. He is the author of Hunters at the Margin (UBC Press, 2007), the co-editor of Mining and Communities in Northern Canada (University of Calgary Press, 2015), and co-author of Mining Country, a full length history of mining in Canada, forthcoming in 2020 with Lorimer Press. Dr. Sandlos has served as a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and was recently elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.

Publications

Hunters at the margin

Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory

Karolyn Smardz Frost is an award-winning author, historian, archaeologist and educator committed to discovering and sharing the lost narratives of our human past. She specializes in teaching primary research methods for African Canadian and African American history. A founder of the public archaeology/public history movement in Canada, she administered Toronto’s Archaeological Resource Centre in 1985, where more than 100,000 schoolchildren helped dig into their own city’s past. Karolyn is currently researching direct connections between slavery and the early history of King’s College, Halifax. She is an adjunct professor at both Acadia and Dalhousie Universities; a visiting professor at the University of Buffalo Archaeology Lab; and a Research Associate at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University.

Karolyn won the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction for her landmark volume, I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. Her most recent freedom-seeker biography, Steal Away Home (2017), received the Speaker’s Award for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the J.J. Talman Award for the best book on Ontario history in the past three years. In 2012-2013, she served as the Bicentennial Visiting Professor for Canadian Studies at Yale University. Karolyn is a sought-after speaker and regularly consults for government agencies, museums, television, digital media and school boards.

Publications

Steal Away Home: One Woman’s Epic Flight to Freedom – And Her Long Road Back to the South

I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

Sara Spike is a cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and received her PhD from Carleton University in 2016. Her research, publications, and teaching explore the historical worlds of rural Canadians, illuminating and recuperating overlooked aspects of rural culture and knowledge. Sara is currently working on two book manuscripts. The first, derived from her dissertation, is a cultural history of vision and modernity in late nineteenth-century rural Nova Scotia, drawing on visual culture studies and sensory history to explore how rural people encountered and responded to cultural transformations in their communities. The second is a cultural history of fog in Atlantic Canada from the early colonial period to the twentieth century, using stories about fog as an entry point into understudied histories of science, settler colonialism, and the embodied sensory experiences of coastal life.

Sara also has a professional interest in the public presentation of the past. In 2017 she returned to her home community in Nova Scotia to lead the government-funded, community-directed Eastern Shore Islands Heritage Research Project. Incorporating archival work, community-based research, and archaeological fieldwork, this project will produce the first professional history of the region as well as guiding heritage planning and related economic development. She has also worked and volunteered as an advisor to community museums and archives in Nova Scotia. Sara is the creator of the popular Twitter project Small History Nova Scotia (@smallhistory), which shares real daily news from community newspapers c.1880–1910.

I am Professor of History and a Provost’s Engaged Scholar at the University of Victoria. From 2014-2022, I directed Landscapes of Injustice, a 7-year multi-sector and community-engaged project to research and tell the history of the forced sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned property during the 1940s, a partnership for which I received a SSHRC Impact Award. I now co-direct, with Audrey Kobayashi, Past Wrongs, Future Choices [URL COMING SOON], a partnership that seeks to situate the mistreatment of people of Japanese descent in allied countries in the 1940s within global history, working with partners in Australia, Brazil, Japan and the United States.

Publications

Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians

Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians

Staying Italian

Allyson Stevenson is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. She has a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan in History. Her current research area is Indigenous women’s political movements, and global Indigenous human rights. She has four amazing children, and lives near Kinistino, Sask. Her book, Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop is forthcoming June 2020 with University of Toronto Press. She has published articles on the Sixties Scoop, Indigenous Women’s political activism, and histories of Métis resilience and resistance.

Publications

Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship

Dr. Guillaume Teasdale (PhD, York University) is Assistant Professor of History and Director of The Detroit River Border Region Digital History Project at the University of Windsor. His research and teaching focus on colonial North American borderlands. He is the author of Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018). He is also the co-editor of two anthologies, French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 (Michigan State University Press and University of Manitoba Press, 2013) and Une Amérique française, 1760-1860: Dynamiques du corridor créole (Les Indes savantes, 2015).

Publications

French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815

Une Amérique française, 1760-1860: Dynamiques du corridor créole

Elizabeth Vibert is an historian at the University of Victoria whose research focuses on gender, poverty, colonialism, and food systems. She is director of the SSHRC-funded research project “Four Stories About Food Sovereignty: Transnational Crises and Local Action,” which draws together food producers and researchers from four continents to examine historical and contemporary food crises, and effective community responses in an era of climate crisis. A documentary film will be one element of knowledge mobilization from this project. With director Christine Welsh, Elizabeth produced and wrote the award-winning documentary film The Thinking Garden (2017), and has written or edited three books and numerous articles on colonial history, Indigenous-settler interactions, and South African women’s history.

Publications

Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History

Traders’ Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846

Out There Learning: Critical Reflections on Off-campus Study Programs

David Webster is History professor at Bishop’s University. His book Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World (UBC Press, 2009) examines Canada-Indonesia relations at both government and civil society levels, as does his newest book Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor 1975-99 (UBC Press 2020). He has published widely on Canadian foreign relations and Asian history topics. Most recently, he edited Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Melanesia (University of Calgary Press, 2017) and co-edited A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid (University of Calgary Press, 2019).

Publications

Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975–99

Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World

Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia

Jon is a historian of war and society writing on the history of the YMCA during the First World War. He also writes and lectures on Canadian identity and the politics of history, on commemoration and memory, on public and active history, and on the history of the left in Canada. Jon is an instructor at George Brown College where he has taught labour history, Toronto history and Canadian studies. His work has appeared in the CCPA Monitor and the National Post, as well as in academic journals and essay collections.

Jon is an editor at Activehistory.ca and one of the founders of its Canada’s First World War project. He was co-organizer of a conference on the history of the Canadian left that resulted in a co-edited volume with Roberta Lexier and Stephanie Bangarth; Party of Conscience: the CCF, the NDP and Social Democracy in Canada. He has worked as a consultant for advocacy and charitable organizations and has a long history of political involvement, having worked as a policy advisor and press secretary at the House of Commons and the Ontario Legislature.

Publications

Party of Conscience: The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada

Harvey Amani Whitfield is a Professor of United States and Canadian history. His books include, Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860, The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810, North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes, and Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents. His current book project is entitled, Biographical Sketches of Black Slaves in Atlantic Canada, which documents the lives of 1,300 enslaved people. In his free time, he attends church and spends time with his wife and young daughter.

Publications

North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860

The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810

Whitney Wood is Tier II Canada Research Chair in the Historical Dimensions of Women’s Health at Vancouver Island University. Her research centres on the intersecting histories of women’s health, medicalization, reproduction, and embodiment, and explores the cultural and medical construction of women’s pain in late-nineteenth and twentieth century Canada. Her previous work has appeared in Social History of Medicine and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, in addition to a number of edited collections, including Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World. Her current project is a study of “natural childbirth” in the mid-to-late twentieth century that seeks to situate Canadian contributions to and engagement with a growing global medical movement in a transnational perspective.

Publications

‘Spreading the Gospel of Natural Birth: Canadian Contributions to an International Medical Movement, 1945–1960’, in Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen, eds, Undiplomatic History: Rethinking Canada in the World (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019).

‘Put Right Under’: Obstetric Violence in Post-war Canada, Social History of Medicine, Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 796–817, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky057

“‘Bound to be a troublesome time’: Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition, and Pain, 1867-1930,” in Perceptions of Pregnancy Edited Collection, eds. Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 35-55.

“‘The Luxurious Daughters of Artificial Life’: Female ‘Delicacy’ and Pain in Late-Victorian Advice Literature,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 71-92.

“‘When I think of what is before me, I feel afraid’: Narratives of Fear, Pain, and Childbirth in Late-Victorian Canada,” in Pain and Emotion in Modern History, ed. Rob Boddice (Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 187-203.