Dr. Jennifer Bonnell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, where she teaches courses in Canadian, environmental and public history. A historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada, she is the author of Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and the editor, with Marcel Fortin, of Historical GIS Research in Canada(University of Calgary Press, 2014).
Bonnell has also contributed to a variety of public history projects, including documentary film and television projects for the Evergreen Brick Works and Metal Dog Films, and research and public engagement work for environment and heritage organizations in the Toronto area. Her current public history initiatives include A People’s History of Wildlife in British Columbia, a two-year oral history and research initiative for the BC government’s Wildlife and Habitat Branch; and, in Toronto, Changing the Narrative: Bringing Indigenous History to Black Creek Pioneer Village, a multi-year interactive project in collaboration with Black Creek Pioneer Village, Jumblies Theatre, and scholars of Indigenous history at York.
Bonnell’s articles and essays have appeared in The Canadian Historical Review, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and Museum & Society, and as chapters in Sandberg, Bocking, and Cruikshank’s Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region (L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, 2013) and Desfor and Laidley’s Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront (University of Toronto Press, 2011), among others. She is currently working on a new book, Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honey Bees, Agricultural Modernization and Environmental Change in the Great Lakes Region, under contract with McGill-Queens University Press.

Jennifer Bonnell on the Wilson Institute

Publications

Historical GIS Research in Canada

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.

Dr. Peter Cook was an L.R. Wilson Assistant Professor of Canadian History from 2009 to 2011. For his PhD at McGill University, he specialised in native-colonial alliances on the western frontier of New France exploring in practical terms what it mean to “live as brothers.”  His new project, which he began as a Wilson Fellow, involves a decoding of the “kingship” metaphor French colonists applied to native leadership and political organization. Dr. Cook teaches Pre-Confederation Canadian History and offer seminars on Canada in the Colonial Era. He is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.

Dr. Peter Cook Question 4 – History of aboriginal-settler relations

Publications

“Onontio Gives Birth: How the French in Canada Became Fathers to Their Indigenous Alllies, 1645–73,” Canadian Historical Review 96, no. 2 (2015): 165–193. *Winner of the William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies.

“‘A King in Every Countrey’: English and French Encounters with Indigenous Leaders in Sixteenth-Century America.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 24, no. 2 (2013): 1–32.

“Les premiers contacts vus à travers les sources documentaires européennes.” In Les Autochtones et le Québec : Des premiers contacts au Plan Nord, 55–73. Edited by Alain Beaulieu, Stéphan Gervais, and Martin Papillon. Coll. “Paramètres.” Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2013.

“Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Organization in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” In The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624, 307–341. Edited by Peter Mancall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2007.

“Vivre comme frères: le rôle du registre fraternel dans les premières alliances franco-amérindiennes au Canada (vers 1580–1650).” Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 31, no. 2 (2001): 55–65.

“Symbolic and Material Exchange in Intercultural Diplomacy: The French and the Hodenosaunee in the Early Eighteenth Century.” In New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995, 75–100. Edited by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper Smith and William Wicken. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

“New France’s Agents of Intercultural Diplomacy: The Western Frontier, 1703–1725.” In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Cleveland, May 1994, 59–79. Edited by A. J. B. Johnston. Cleveland: French Colonial Historical Society, 1996.

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

Dr. Alexandre Dubé, PhD (McGill University 2010) was an L.R. Wilson Assistant Professor in the Institute for Canadian History in 2014-2015, he is a historian of the French colonies in North America. He comes to McMaster from post-doctoral fellowships at the prestigious Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He will soon publish a book on colonial Louisiana and its role in the French Empire. His current research focuses on comparing the various colonial scandals that shook the French empire in the aftermath of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). He is now an assistant professor of history at Washington University in Saint-Louis.

Dr. Aya Fujiwara received her Ph.D from the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta in 2007. Her specialty is ethnic and immigration history of Canada with particular focus on Japanese Canadians and Japan-Canada relations. Born in Japan, she began studying Japanese history but developed an interest in Canadian Studies when she studied at the University of British Columbia as an exchange student. Since then, her passion has been to promote strong ties between Japan and Canada. She has served as a political advisor and researcher at the Embassy of Japan in Ottawa in 2008-2009. After holding the L. R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University in 2009-2011, she has taught both Canadian and East Asian histories. In 2015, she took the position of Director of the Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research, University of Alberta. She is also teaching Modern Japan and Ethnic History in Canada.

Publications

Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity: Japanese, Ukrainians, and Scots, 1919-1971

Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts

Dr. Julie Gilmour was a L.R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009 to 2011. She is a specialist in 20th Century Canadian immigration policy, refugees and citizenship, with a PhD from the University of Toronto, has a book manuscript titled Trouble on Main Street: W.L. Mackenzie King, Race, Reason and the 1907 Vancouver Riots.

Publications

The History of Canada Series: Trouble on Main Street: Mackenzie King Reason Race And The 1907 Vancouver Riots

Dr. Heather Green is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. She specializes in environmental and Indigenous histories with a particular focus on histories of mining and resource extraction in the circumpolar North, energy production and Indigenous activism in the American Southwest, and public histories of Indigenous erasure from, and inclusion in, heritage landscapes.

Dr. Green completed her PhD at the University of Alberta in 2018. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University (2018-2019) and a Fulbright Canada Research Scholar fellowship with the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona (2018-2019). She has held several major awards including the SSHRC CGS Doctoral Award, Queen Elizabeth II Award, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, and the SSHRC CGS Master’s Award.

She has published in The Canadian Historical Review, The Northern Review, and Inuit Studies, and in the 2015 collection Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics and Memory. She is a frequent contributor to public-facing platforms such as The Otter, Active History, and Environmental History Now. Green’s forthcoming book with UBC Press (expected 2022) The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining, Colonialism, and Environment in the Klondike, 1890-1940, analyzes the intersection of environmental and Indigenous histories of gold mining in the Klondike region of the Yukon.

She is currently an editor with the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) and Research Associate with the public and digital history project Historic Nova Scotia. Heather’s teaching includes Canadian history, environmental history, Indigenous history, oral history, and land-based learning.

Publications

Green, H and M. Papai. “”The Sourdough’s Favorite Beverage:” Cultural Identity and the Klondike Brewery, 1900–1920.” The Northern Review (2019).

Piper, L. and H. Green. “A Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late-Twentieth Century Alberta.” Canadian Historical Review 98, 3 (Sept 2017): 532-567.

Green, H. “The Rise of Motherhood: Maternal Feminism and Health in the Rural Prairie Provinces, 1900-1930.” Past Imperfect 20 (2017).

Green, H. “There is no memory of it here”: Closure and Memory of the Polaris Mine in Resolute Bay, 1973-2012.” Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics and Memory. Eds. J. Sandlos and A. Keeling Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. 294-314.

Green, H. “State, Company and Community Relations at the Polaris Mine (Nunavut) /L’État, l’enterprise, et la communauté relations à la mine Polaris (Nunavut).” Études/Inuit/Studies 37,2 (Dec. 2013): Industrial development and mining impacts. 37-57.

Dr. Stuart Henderson (Queen’s 2008) was an L. R. Wilson Assistant Professor in the Institute for Canadian History in 2011-2013. He is the author of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, and is currently finishing a book on Rochdale College and countercultural currents in the early 1970s. He is a pop culture journalist, a Features Editor at PopMatters.com, and a juror for the Polaris Music Prize. He teaches Canadian and U. S. cultural history.

MAKING THE SCENE

Publications

They’re Both the Same Thing? : Transnational Politics and Identity Performance in1960s Toronto”, Journal for the Study of Radicalism 5 (2) 2012.“
Off the Streets and into the Fortress: Experiments in Hip Separatism at Toronto’s Rochdale College, 1968 – 1975”,Canadian Historical Review, 92.1 (2011).

“Disappointment, Nihilism, and Engagement: Some Thoughts on Active History”, Left History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2010-11).

“Toronto’s Hippie Disease: The Yorkville Hepatitis Epidemic, August 1968”, Journal ofthe Canadian Historical Association, 17 (1) 2006, p. 205-234.

“‘All Pink and Clean and Full of Wonder’: Gendering Joni Mitchell, 1966-74”, Left History, 10.2, Fall 2005, p. 83-109.

“‘While There is Still Time…’: J. Murray Gibbon and the Spectacle of Difference in Three CPR Folk Festivals, 1928-30”,Journal of Canadian Studies, 39 (1), Winter2005, p. 139-174

Dr. Dan Horner was a postdoctoral fellow at the Wilson Institute from 2011 to 2013. When his term at the Wilson Institute drew to a close in 2013, Dan began a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship in the History Department at the Université de Montréal. In 2014 he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University, where he teaches courses that explore crime, the criminal justice system, and social regulation from an historical perspective. His research projects have examined issues around the politics of public order, migration, and authority in the middle decades of the nineteenth century through a variety of different geographic lenses, including a transnational project that examined port cities of the North Atlantic World and, in his current project, by examining how these issues were negotiated on Montreal’s western fringe during this period. This work has been supported by Insight and Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Dan has been a member of the Montreal History Group / Groupe d’histoire de Montréal since 2006. This is a research collective based out of McGill University of historians from across Canada who work on the history of Montreal that is funded by the Fonds de recherche de Québec- société et culture.

Dan has published articles in journals such as The Urban History Review, Histoire sociale and The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, as well as chapters in edited collections published by the University of Toronto Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge. His first monograph, entitled Taking to the Streets: Crowds, Politics, and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2020. Dan received tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Ryerson in 2019. After serving as the director of Ryerson’s MA in Criminology and Social Justice program during the 2019-2020 academic year, Dan will begin a term as the chair of the Criminology Department in 2020.

Publications

Taking to the Streets: Crowds Politics and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Dr. Julien Mauduit became L.R. Wilson Assistant Professor in 2017, a few months after having received his PhD from UQAM for a research on the continental history of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-8 which also won the Quebec National Assembly’s prize, a research that he began in France at the Sorbonne and the EHESS. He has published in Canada and the US several articles based on this research, notably an article on political economy that was awarded by the Canadian Historical Association, and co-edited Revolutions across Borders with Maxime Dagenais that was published in 2019 in the Wilson Series. Julien is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia for his project on the political meanings of monetary theories. His manuscripts La Guerre d’indépendance des Canadas and A Question of Struggles – a co-edited book assembled with Jennifer Tunnicliffe on the history of Canadian democracy, which is planned to be published in the Wilson Series – are currently under review.

Publications

Revolutions Across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion

Dr. Colin McCullough was an L.R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow from 2013-15. Prior to joining the Wilson Institute, he received his Ph.D. from York University (2013).

He is the author of Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past (UBC Press, 2016), a part of the Studies in Canadian Military History Series. He is also a contributor and co-editor of two collections: Violence, Memory and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht (Routledge: 2014) and Canada and the United Nations: Legacies, Limits, Perspectives (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). The latter was the first book in their Wilson Institute-sponsored Rethinking Canada in the World series.

Dr. McCullough has taught multiple courses in history and peace studies at McMaster University and Ryerson University, and was on the organizing committee for the 2017 annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association.

Since 2017, he has been a policy analyst with the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. He is also currently a member of the program and planning committee for the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance Biannual Symposium on Learning Outcomes.

Publications

Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past

Dr. Asa McKercher is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Royal Military College of Canada, a senior fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and a fellow at Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy. He is the author of Canada and the World since 1867 (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era (Oxford, 2016) and co-editor of Undiplomatic History: Rethinking Canada in the World (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019) and Mike’s World: Lester B. Pearson and Canadian External Affairs (UBC Press, 2017). An international historian, he writes on Canadian-American political and cultural history, Canadian international affairs, and US foreign policy and tweets @asa_mckercher

Publications

Canada and the World Since 1867

Dr. Ian Mosby is an award-winning author and historian of food, Indigenous health and the politics of settler colonialism and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University. He has a PhD in History from York University and his current research explores the history of human biomedical experimentation on Indigenous peoples during the second half of the twentieth century. He has published widely on topics ranging from the history of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and anti-Chinese racism to the long-term health impacts of hunger and malnutrition in residential schools. Mosby’s scholarly work has appeared in journals ranging from the Canadian Historical Review and Social History of Medicine to the Literary Review of Canada and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

His research has made national headlines on a number of occasions and, in August 2016, he was named one of the 53 most influential people in Canadian food by the Globe and Mail.

Mosby’s first book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front was published by UBC Press in 2014. Food Will Win the War was awarded the 2015 Political History Book Prize by the Canadian Historical Association and, in 2016, was shortlisted for a Canada Prize in the Humanities by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

His forthcoming book, Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet (with Sarah Rotz and Evan Fraser), is being published by University of Regina Press on May 9, 2020.

Ian Mosby: Food in Canada During World War II

Publications

Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet

Dr. Stacy Nation-Knapper was a L.R. Wilson Institute postdoctoral fellow from 2016 to 2018. The author of the thesis “N-Ikwkw-min: Remembering the Fur Trade in the Columbia River Plateau,” Nation-Knapper is among the most esteemed young scholars investigating the relationships of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in western North America. She brings a sterling record as a participant in the popular broadcasts of the Network in the Canadian History of the Environment and serves as part of the governing council of the Champlain Society.She is now the director of the Year One Programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Publications

Carolyn Podruchny and Stacy Nation-Knapper, “Fur Trades.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (November 2016).

“Shoes, Canoes, and Lives in Unexpected Archives: Searching in Fur Trade Ledgers beyond the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.” Past Imperfect 19 (2016): 35-54.

“’Like putting birds in a cage’: Territory and the Troubled Life of a Spokane Oral History.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 106 (Summer 2015): 120-38.

Dr. Jodey Nurse is an L. R. Wilson Assistant Professor at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History. A graduate of Queen’s University and the University of Guelph, as well as a recent post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo, she is currently researching the history of Canada’s supply-managed dairy, egg, and poultry industries. Central to her work is the examination of asymmetrical power relations among stakeholders in agricultural marketing systems and the polarized agricultural policies that have emerged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She also studies and writes about women in agricultural organizations and rural society more generally.

Dr. Timothy Pearson was a L.R Wilson Assistant Professor of Canadian History from 2010-12. His interests pertain to the history of Canada, and particularly French Canada, from the late sixteenth century onwards. The history of the French empire in the Americas and of the early modern Atlantic world are topics that coincide with his current academic research. Dr. Pearson also concentrates in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social and cultural history of Canada and Quebec, and in the history of religion and gender.

Publications

“‘Il n’y a point de Missions en France’: Missionnaires séculiers et l’empire après la guerre de Sept Ans,” Revue de l’histoire de l’Amérique Française 64.3-4 (2013): 145-174.

“‘It will be important to tell me the details of everything’: Knowledge and Transatlantic Communication in the Sulpician Mission to Canada, 1675-1682,” French Colonial History 12 (2011): 45-64.

“‘I willingly speak to you about her virtues’: Catherine de Saint-Augustin and the Public Role of Female Holiness in Early New France,” Journal of Church History 79, 2 (June 2010): 305-333.

“‘In the Eyes of the Children this was a Miracle’: Sanctity in Nineteenth-Century Quebec,” Historical Studies; The Journal of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association 70 (2004): 94-110.

Dr. Amanda Ricci was a L.R. Wilson Institute postdoctoral fellow from 2016 to 2018. She broadened the Institute’s commitment to explore transnational social justice movements in a Canadian context. As the author of the thesis “There’s No Place Like Home: Feminist Communities, Social Citizenship and (Un)Belonging in Montreal’s Long Women’s Movement, 1952-1992,” Ricci studies the experiences of Afro-Canadian, Indigenous, Black, Italian and Québécois women as they wrestled with the contradictions and opportunities of Montréal from the 1960s to the 1990s. While at the Institute, she hoped to look more intensively at the ways in which Canadians “developed and put into practice a transnational feminist consciousness,” during the UN Decade for Women, 1975-1985. She is currently a professor of history at Glendon College.

Publications

“Making Global Citizens? Canadian Women at the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City 1975,” in Undiplomatic History: New Histories of Canada in the World, eds. Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen. Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.

“Un féminisme inclusif ? La Fédération des femmes du Québec et les femmes immigrantes ou racialisées, 1966-1992.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 25, 3 (2017) : 102-123.

“Bâtir une communauté citoyenne: Le militantisme chez les femmes autochtones pendant les années soixante et soixante-dix.” (trans. David Lessard) Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 46, 1 (2016):75-85.

“Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activisms in Quebec” in Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism: Transnational Histories, eds. Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson,273-294. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016

“Searching for Zion: Pan African Feminist Thought and Practice in English-speaking Black Montreal(1967-1977).” Left History 17, 1 (2013): 43-74

Dr. Katharine Rollwagen is an historian of childhood and consumer culture in twentieth-century Canada. Her research centres on the changing ways that adults conceived of childhood and the transition to adulthood, exploring corporate depictions of children and youth in advertising, in retail spaces, in schools and on television. She contends that just as children became increasingly important consumers over the course of the twentieth century, consumption repeatedly reshaped the very notion of childhood itself. Her current project (with colleague Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh) examines children’s popular culture in North America during the early Cold War.
Katharine completed her doctorate at the University of Ottawa in 2012 and was an L. R. Wilson Assistant Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University in 2013-2014. As a Wilson post-doc she developed five courses while completing research on the changing high school curriculum in the late-1940s. Her experience at McMaster helped to secure her a permanent position in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University in 2014. She currently teaches courses in Canadian history as well as the histories of childhood, education, business and consumer culture, labour, and public history.
Katharine’s research is published in BC Studies, Urban History Review, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Historical Studies in Education, and the Canadian Historical Review. She is currently a co-editor of the international journal Gender & History, co-chair of the History of Children and Youth Group of the Canadian Historical Association, and chair of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series at Vancouver Island University. She is a grateful guest on the territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation in Nanaimo, BC.
Justice Through strength & Courage: Television and Cold War North American Childhoods in the 1950s

Publications

The Young Medium: Regulating Television in the Name of Canadian Childhood, Canadian Historical Review 101:1 (March 2020): 27-48.
Classrooms for Consumer Society: Practical Education and Secondary School Reform in Post-Second World War Canada,” Historical Studies in Education, 28:1 (Spring 2016): 32-52.

“Eaton’s Goes to School: Youth councils and the Commodification of the Teenaged Consumer at Canada’s Largest Department Store, 1940-1960,” Histoire Sociale/Social History, 47:95 (November 2014): 683-703.

Chad Gaffield, Byron Moldofsky, and Katharine Rollwagen, “’Do not use for comparison with other censuses’: Identity, Politics and Languages Commonly Spoken in 1911 Canada,” in The Dawn of “Canada’s Century”: Hidden Histories (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014). pp. 93-123.

“When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in a Company Town, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada, 1957-1965,” in Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres, eds., Company Towns: Labour, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). pp. 151-180.

Dr. Jennifer Tunnicliffe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University. Prior to joining Ryerson, Tunnicliffe was an Assistant Professor at King’s University College at Western University, an L. R. Wilson Assistant Professor at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, and she held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. She received her PhD from McMaster University, and her MA from the University of Waterloo.
Tunnicliffe’s research focuses on Canadian and international human rights history, analyzing how domestic and transnational activism shapes cultural attitudes and legislative approaches to human rights. Her first book, Resisting Rights: Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76 (UBC Press, 2019), challenges the narrative of Canada as an historic advocate for international human rights and explores the key role that rights activists have played in shaping Canadian diplomacy at the United Nations. She is also a co-editor of Constant Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization, which is under review with McGill-Queen’s University Press. This collection explores the historical realities (domestic and transnational) that have shaped how democracy has been understood and practiced throughout Canadian history. Her current book project, Drawing the Line: Free Speech and the Regulation of Hate in Canadian History, examines the evolution of Canada’s hate speech laws through a human rights framework, situating Canadian policy in a global context.
Tunnicliffe has written a number of articles and book chapters related to Canadian and international human rights history. Her work has been published in the Canadian Historical Review, Social History / Histoire Sociale, History Compass, and the ActiveHistory blog.

Publications

Resisting Rights: Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76

Dr. Phil Van Huizen was an L. R. Wilson Assistant Professor at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History in 2015-17. An environmental historian of Canada-US energy development, he received his PhD from the University of British Columbia with a dissertation on conflict over power development in the Skagit Valley, which won the American Historical Association’s prize for the best doctoral dissertation on the North American West. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Alberta where for the past two years he has held a SSHRCC postdoctoral fellowship studying the social and environmental history of the Canada-US oil and gas network, a project which he continued at McMaster. He is now a First Nations Advisor with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development at the Government of British Columbia.

Publications

Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019)

“Water Power Before Hydroelectricity,” in Powering Up Canada: Essays on the History of Heat, Light, and Work from 1600, Ruth Sandwell, ed. (Montreal-Ottawa: McGill-Queen’s University Press), 185 – 210

“‘Panic Park’: Environmental Protest and the Politics of Parks in British Columbia’s Skagit Valley” BC Studies, 170 (Summer 2011), 67 – 92.

“Building a Green Dam: Environmental Modernism and the Canadian-American Libby Dam Project” Pacific Historical Review, 79 (August 2010), 418 – 453

During his PhD at Queens and postdoctoral work at Yale, Dr. John Varty examined the role of scientific research in the development of the Canadian grain trade. As a Wilson Fellow he studied Canadian food-science aid to India during the development decade of the 1960’s and initiate a new project on the history of cattle diseases and trade embargoes. Dr. Varty was responsible for developing new lecture and seminar courses reconceptualising Modern Canadian History in the globalization framework.