Student movements, feminism and women’s movements, as well as Indigenous, economic, and environmental movements, and the counterculture Roberta Lexier is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. She has published on Sixties student movements in English Canada and the intersections between social movements and political parties, especially the New
Gender and work, unions and labour relations, worker organizing Julia Smith is an Associate Professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba on Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation. Her research and teaching focus on the political economy of work and labour relations in North America and the
Andrew Nurse teaches Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. His key teaching areas include Canadian political-economy, regionalism, and citizenship. His scholarly work focuses on Canadian cultural history, the ethics of violence and foreign policy. He is also interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning and community activism. Andrew is working on a book on
History and political economy of Canadian and Olympic sport Bruce Kidd is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, and the founding dean of that faculty. He has also served the University of Toronto as vice president and principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough and Warden of Hart
Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà Gwich’in and her expertise centres around the histories of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology. In particular, northern twentieth-century histories is her
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Urban Environment Sean Kheraj is a co-editor of https://niche-canada.org/ where he produces and hosts Nature’s Past, the Canadian environmental history podcast. His research focuses on the historical relationship between people and animals in urban environments. His most recent work is Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (2013).
History of migration, 19th and 20th century refugee movements and the history of humanitarianism Professor Madokoro is an award-winning historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard, 2016) and co-editor of Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History (UBC, 2017). Her
Scandinavian language, literature, and culture Natalie M. Van Deusen is the inaugural Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Alberta, where she teaches a variety of courses on Scandinavian language, literature, and culture. Her research interests include Old Norse-Icelandic paleography and philology, manuscript culture, hagiography and religious literature, and
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Indigenous-Settler Relations; Indian Residential Schools; Educational Policy; Cultural Representations Sean Carleton is an expert in Indigenous-Settler relations in Canada, and his research examines the history of settler colonialism, capitalism, colonial violence and Indigenous resistance, and the rise of state schooling (common, public, mission, day, boarding and industrial schools) in Western Canada in the late 19th
Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà Gwich’in and her expertise centres around the histories of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology. In particular, northern twentieth-century histories is her
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Residential Schools and historical memory of Indigenous-settler relations in Quebec and Canada Brian Gettler specializes in the history of colonialism in Quebec during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work focuses on First Nations’ economic activity, the development of the Canadian state, the evolution of federal and provincial policy with respect to Indigenous peoples, residential schooling,
Indigenous land and water development, community partnership Brittany Luby specializes in the history of hydroelectric development in Treaty #3, focusing on Anishinabeg responses to industrial incursions. Her work can be found in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. Luby has also lectured extensively on building partnerships between the academy and Indigenous communities
Aboriginal peoples; Metis and First Nations history; community and family history; and the impact of colonization Brenda Macdougall is a leading expert in the history of Métis and First Nations and Ontario’s first Chair in Métis Research.
Aboriginal and treaty history, rights and issues Order of Canada recipient Jim Miller is one of the foremost experts in Canadian Aboriginal history, having written several seminal works on Native-Newcomer relations, Treaty history, and Indian Residential Schools.
Community Based Research; Oral history; Indigenous history in British Columbia; Treaties; Aboriginal Legal History; and Environmental History A member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, Daniel Sims’ expertise is on Indigenous history in British Columbia with a focus on historic and modern treaties, Aboriginal legal history and policy, and the environment. Coming from a long
Security and the state Greg Kealey is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Greg Kealey specializes in Canadian Social History, Labour History, and Security and Intelligence History. In addition to two prize-winning books on Social and Labour History, he co-edited Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s (2011) and co-authored a history of the Canadian secret
Alcohol Consumption Craig Heron is a professor at York University, a past president of the CHA, and editor for the University of Toronto Press. He has authored several notable works on Canadian social history, including The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History (1989, 1996) and Booze in Canada: A History (2003).
Farm labour; migrant labour; temporary foreign worker programs Edward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University and a historian of migration, labour, and Canada in the World. His current book project, Harvesting Labour: Tobacco and the Global Making of Canada’s Agricultural Workforce (McGill-Queen’s University Press) uses a case study
Labour history, rights and issues, and social policy Alvin Finkel has published extensively in Canadian Labour and Social History. He also co-authored one of the most widely used Canadian history textbooks in undergraduate teaching, History of the Canadian Peoples, in two volumes (Pearson Education, 2005).
Oral history, urban heritage Steven High is Professor of History at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is an interdisciplinary oral and public historian with a strong interest in transnational approaches to working-class studies, forced migration, and community-engaged research. He has headed a number of major research projects, most notably the
Labour history, rights and issues, and social policy Peter McInnis researches Labour and working-class history, North America and the Cold War era, and the social history of post-war Canada. He is the author of Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 (2002). He remains active in the field and in the area of post-secondary
Population history of Canada Lisa Dillon is full professor at U de M and specializes in the population history of Canada, particularly with respect to family, household, life course, intergenerational co-residence and fertility, as well as historical census and parish register data construction.
Labour Jeremy Milloy is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Peterborough, Ontario who is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the historical relationship between addiction and work under capitalism in the United States and Canada, 1965-1995.
The 150th Anniversary of Confederation Ged Martin is Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of History at Fraser Valley University in British Columbia. He specialises in 19th century Canadian politics and has written extensively on the formation of Confederation, including Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867 (1995) and John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First
Canadian symbols, honours, knighthoods Author of The Order of Canada; Genesis of an Honours System, and Canadian Symbols of Authority, Christopher McCreery has written extensively about Canadian symbols, flags, the Canadian honours system and knighthoods. He presently Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and Executive Director of Government House in Halifax.
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