The CHA Nominating Committee

Angela Tozer is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. She is of Tamil-Canadian heritage, and lives on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Welastekwewiyik, protected by the Peace and Friendship Treaties. She researches in Canadian history with a focus on the 19th century, and investigates the relationship between capitalism and settler colonialism. Her current book manuscript, Universal Nation: The Canadian Public Debt and the Making of the Settler State, 1820-1880 (forthcoming, University of British Columbia Press) examines the history of the Canadian public debt and its interdependence with settler colonialism. Her current research project ‘The lifeworlds of eels: Global capital and the development of Mi’kmaw and settler fisheries, 1850-1928’ explores the history of Maritime eel fisheries and describes the entanglement between global capital, treaty rights, ‘moderate livelihood’ Indigenous fisheries, federal and provincial jurisdiction, and ‘conservation’ in light of our current climate crisis.

Jennifer Tunnicliffe is an Assistant Professor in History at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on Canadian and international human rights history, histories of social movements and resistance, and the history of hate speech laws in Canada. She is the author of Resisting Rights: Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-1976 (UBC Press, 2019) and co-editor of Constant Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). 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.

Catherine Larochelle is a professor in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal and a member of the editorial board of the journal HistoireEngagée.ca. Her current research focuses on the work of the Sainte-Enfance in the 20th century. She is the author of the book L’école du racisme (PUM, 2021).

Dr. Stephanie Pettigrew works with the Digital Access Team at Library and Archives Canada. A graduate of the University of New Brunswick, she has been working on various digital projects since 2013, from the British North America Legislative Database (BNALD), to the Unwritten Histories blog, to her current work with LAC. She has also completed work as the research director for the Pointe Sainte-Anne exhibit at the Fredericton Region Museum. You can find her work in Revue de la Nouvelle France, Unwritten Histories, Borealia, Acadiensis, the Journal of New Brunswick Studies, and Terra Incognita.