The CHA Council

Lisa Chilton is an associate professor in the History Department at UPEI, a member of the graduate faculty of the Master of Arts in Island Studies, and the director and (in consultation with colleagues from across UPEI) creator of a new interdisciplinary program in Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island.  Her research interests include international migrations and the history of British imperialism, especially as they relate to Pre-World War II 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). Lisa has served in executive positions on the Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History, and on the Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism. She is currently on the editorial board of the Canadian Historical Review.

John Bullen, Albert B. Corey & Clio Prizes Portfolio, Teaching Committee.

Karine Duhamel is Anishinaabe-Métis and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University, a Bachelor of Education from Lakehead University and a master’s degree and PhD in History from the University of Manitoba. Dr. Duhamel was formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of Winnipeg and Director of Research for Jerch Law Corporation. From 2016 to 2018, she also served as Curator at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. More recently, Dr. Duhamel served as Director of Research for the historic National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, drafting the Final Report as well as managing its Forensic Document Review Project and Legacy Archive.

Dr. Duhamel is now an independent historian and consultant. She is also an active member of several boards and committees including the International Council of Museums (ICOM) – Canada and Facing History and Ourselves. Dr. Duhamel is a frequently requested Speaker for the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, a member of the Parks Canada Indigenous Advisory Circle and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Indigenous Matters for the International Council of Archives.

Committee on Precarity and Rethinking History in Canada.

Matthew Hayday is a professor of Canadian History at the University of Guelph. He has been an active member of the CHA over the past twenty years, serving on the Nominating Committee, the editorial board of the Journal of the CHA, the Bullen Prize committee, annual meeting committees, and for four years as the founding chair of the Political History Group.

He is currently co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review, and has also served as Associate Editor and Acting Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, and for several years on history-related SSHRC grant committees. He is the author or co-editor of six books, including So They Want Us To Learn French: Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada and the two volume Celebrating Canada collection, as well as many articles and book chapters. His research interests encompass a wide array of aspects of Canadian political and cultural history, including language policy and bilingualism, national identity, post-Second World War political history, social movements – and even the Canadian version of Sesame Street. His is currently working on a biography of the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark.

History Department Chairs Liaison, Affiliated Committee.

Claudine Bonner is a member of the Sociology Department and Women’s and Gender Studies program at Acadia University. Her research is grounded in African Canadian history, and broadly applied in analyses of race, gender, education, and identity in contemporary Canada. Her scholarship bridges the gap between studies of the Black Canadian experience and the broader African Diaspora, and crosses generational boundaries through innovative oral histories, community-based research, and published collaborative research with leading Canadian scholars.

The François-Xavier Garneau, Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, the Wallace K. Ferguson, the Fecteau prizes portfolio, EDI Committee.

A member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, Dr. Daniel Sims comes from a long line of community-based Indigenous historians. Currently serving as the chair of First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, he was previously employed as an assistant professor of history at the University of Alberta – Augustana Campus. His research primarily focuses on the history of northern British Columbia, with his current research project examining failed economic developments and concepts of wilderness in the Finlay-Parsnip watershed and Front Ranges of the Rockies. While he waits for the communities he is working with on the project to open up again, he is currently finishing work on a forthcoming edited memoir of Norwegian free trader Einar Mortensen with a colleague in Scandinavian Studies and beginning the process of transforming his dissertation on the impacts of W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the Tsek’ehne of northern British Columbia into a book.

Advocacy, History Campaign Committee.

I am a History professor at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec (on unceded Abenaki territory) who attended my first CHA conference back in 2003. Before that, I taught International Studies at the University of Regina. My research interests include Canada and the world, 20th century Southeast Asian history and the way international non-governmental organizations have deployed their own alternative diplomacies. I teach topics related to the history of the global South, the United Nations, and Canadian transnational relations. Publications include, most recently, Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor 1975-99 and the edited collection Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Melanesia. I’m an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History and a member of the international advisory council of the Centro Nacional Chega!, Timor-Leste’s Centre for Truth and Memory, and just finished a term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. Before taking the leap into academia, I worked in journalism and human rights advocacy.

Precarity & Outreach Committee to Non-Canadianists portfolios.

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 Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Walrus, and The National Post.

Outreach Committee to Non-Canadianists, History Campaign Committee.

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.

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.

EDI Committee, Partnerships.

Nicholas Fast is an historian of labour and capitalism in North America at the University of Toronto. His current research is a transnational, comparative analysis on the process and experiences of deindustrialization of the meatpacking industry in Winnipeg and Chicago. His graduate career has been defined by his role in re-organizing the Graduate Student Committee of the CHA and currently sits as its chair. Nicholas is a member of both the Canadian and American Historical Associations, the SSHRC Funded project Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT), and the Canadian Business History Association.

Teaching Committee, Partnership Library and Archives Canada.