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Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

2022-2025
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Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

2022-2025

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is a historian of post-Reconstruction United States, specializing on the African American experience. Broadly, his research and writing excavate freedom linkages among the United States, Canada, and other parts of the African Diaspora.  Before arriving at McGill, he held the W. L. Mackenzie King Fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of History Lectureship. Dr. Adjetey’s research has garnered prizes and fellowships from many sources: SSHRC, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Princeton, to name a few. In 2017-18, he was Visiting Scholar and Pre-Doctoral Fellow at MIT, and in 2016-17, Visiting Scholar and Senior Resident Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Dr. Adjetey’s first monograph—Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America, 1919-1992—is under contract to the University of North Carolina Press. This project situates fundamental questions of twentieth-century U.S. history—immigration, civil rights, racial identity, radicalism, surveillance, and state power—within a North American diasporic frame. He has written essays and articles for The Washington PostThe Globe and MailThe Toronto StarThe Walrus, and The National Post.

Portfolio: Liaison to CHA Annual Meeting Program Committee.

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Meredith Terretta

2022-2025
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Meredith Terretta

2022-2025

Meredith Terretta is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. She examines transregional legal and rights activism, both past and contemporary. She is now writing a book tentatively titled: Claimants, Advocates and Disrupters in Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories and co-editing, with Samuel Moyn, The Cambridge World History of Rights, Volume 5: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Since 2021, her published work includes a special issue on African Refuge for the Canadian Journal of African Studies, co-edited with Philip Janzen, single-authored articles on rights, international law, and decolonization in The Law and History Review and the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and a chapter on late colonial era African land claims in Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History, edited by Steven L. B. Jensen and Charles Walton (Cambridge University Press: 2022).

Terretta is principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Grant studying the IRCC’s systemic denial of study and temporary resident permits to students and researchers from African countries. She presided the Canadian Association of African Studies in 2018-2019.

Outreach Committee to Non-Canadianists, Rethinking History in Canada.

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Harvey Amani Whitfield

2022-2025
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Harvey Amani Whitfield

2022-2025

Harvey Amani Whitfield is a Professor of Black North American History at the University of Calgary.  His books include Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 (2006), North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes (2016), and Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents (2018).  His most recent book, Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes, will be published by the University of Toronto Press in early 2022.  He is also the author of numerous book chapters and articles, including “White Archives, Black Fragments: Problems and Possibilities in Telling the Lives of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes,” in the Canadian Historical Review. In his free time, Whitfield enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter.  He also enjoys exercising and exploring Alberta.

Portfolio: EDI Committee

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Rachel Hope Cleves

2023-2026
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Rachel Hope Cleves

2023-2026

Rachel Hope Cleves is Professor of History at the University of Victoria and a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of three prize-winning books, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association. She is presently completing a manuscript on the history of food and sex that is under contract with Polity Press. She also has her first novel, A Second Chance for Yesterday (Solaris), co-authored with her brother, coming out in August 2023.

Portfolio: Teaching Committee

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Rhonda Hinther

2023-2026
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Rhonda Hinther

2023-2026

Rhonda L. Hinther is a history professor at Brandon University (BU) and an active public historian.  She is the co-founder and coordinator of the BU Public History Program. Before joining BU, she worked in senior curatorial capacities at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Canadian Museum of History.  Hinther 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,” which she co-wrote, won the 2012 CHA Public History Prize.

Hinther’s work has appeared in Manitoba History, Atlantis, Oral History Forum, and Labour/le travail.  She is co-editor of several edited collections, including 2022’s For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt and 2020’s Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies (both University of Manitoba Press).  Her book Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991 (University of Toronto Press, 2018) was a 2019 Wilson Prize Finalist.

She is presently writing a book on an extended Ukrainian-Jewish family’s WWII internment experiences.

Portofolio: Clio Prizes, John Bullen Prize, Albert B. Corey Prize

Lianne Leddy

Lianne Leddy

2023-2026
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Lianne Leddy

2023-2026

Lianne Leddy (Anishinaabekwe) is an associate professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University on the Haldimand Tract. She is a member of Serpent River First Nation and grew up in Elliot Lake, Ontario, on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory.  Her research focuses on Indigenous history in what is now Canada, especially issues related to land and gender, and employs Indigenous, western, and performance art methodologies in her work.

Leddy’s monograph, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake, was published by University of Toronto Press and she was honoured to deliver the Dr. Anne Clendinning Memorial Lecture in 2022. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, Oral History Forum, a regular column in Herizons magazine, and several edited collections.

Leddy’s past service experience includes but is not limited to coordinating the Indigenous Studies program at Laurier, serving on the CHA’s Clio Ontario prize committee, and sitting on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant committee for Indigenous research. Her work was recognized by the OCUFA Status of Women and Equity Award of Distinction in 2018.

Portfolios: Teaching Committee & EDI Committee

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Neilesh Bose

2024-2027
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Neilesh Bose

2024-2027

Neilesh is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair of Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria.  He has also served as a visiting professor at Ashoka University and Queens College in New York City. His research interests include modern religion and secularism, the history of colonial India, and the history of early post-colonial South Asia with specialization in West Bengal and Bangladesh. His book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Bengal (Delhi and Oxford, 2014) explores late colonial and early postcolonial histories of East Bengal and Bangladesh. As a historian invested in global and comparative history, his publications include a special edition in the Journal of World History, and the edited volumes India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden and Delhi, 2022) and South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives (London, 2020). His journal articles on topics such as religion, race, and migration appear in Modern Asian StudiesSouth Asia Research, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Portfolios: Advocacy

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Olivier Côté

2024-2027
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Olivier Côté

2024-2027

Since 2015, I’ve been working as a historian at the Canadian Museum of History, as Curator of Media and Communications. With a PhD in history from Université Laval and a master’s degree from York University, I founded HistoireEngagee.ca, the French-language counterpart to ActiveHistory magazine, in 2009. At the time, I was its general coordinator. In 2014, I published the book Construire la nation au petit écran (Septentrion), a finalist for the 2016 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences. I recently worked on the exhibition From Pepinot to Paw Patrol – Television of Our childhoods and on the publication of its catalog. I’m currently doing research on children’s programming and the representation of diversity.

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Historical Association, I would like to build bridges between French and English-speaking researchers, as well as between those working in and out of universities, especially in museums.

Portfolios: Fecteau, Wallace-K.-Ferguson, meilleur livre savant en histoire du Canada et Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History prizes.

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Whitney Wood

2024-2027
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Whitney Wood

2024-2027

Whitney Wood is Canada Research Chair in the Historical Dimensions of Women’s Health at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC. After completing undergraduate and MA work at Lakehead University, she earned a PhD in History from Wilfrid Laurier University (Tri-University Graduate Program), and held postdoctoral fellowships at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Calgary before joining VIU in 2019. Wood’s research explores histories of health, gender, and the body in modern Canada, focusing on reproduction, obstetrics, gynecology, and cultural and medical representations of pain. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Historical ReviewSocial History of Medicine, and Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, in addition to a number of edited collections including Medicare’s Histories: Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada (University of Manitoba Press, 2022) and Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (University of British Columbia Press, 2022). Wood is currently working on her first book, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1940, and serves as English-language editor for the Canadian Journal of Health History.

Portfolios: Liaison with History Department Chairs and Affiliated Committees to the CHA

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Chris Aino Pihlak

Graduate Students Representative (2024-2026)
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Chris Aino Pihlak

Graduate Students Representative (2024-2026)

Chris Aino Pihlak is a trans woman, PhD student at the University of Toronto, and social historian of past articulations of trans feminine existence. In addition to her interest in studies of historical trans feminine desirability, she is a scholar of twentieth-century, Anglophone trans feminine subcultures. She hopes her analyses of the complexities and messiness of past trans lives honours those who built the path she now walks on.