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
K-12 educational policy present and past As a historian appointed in a faculty of education, Jason Ellis researches and teaches about the historical origins of schooling and education. His new book A Class by Themselves: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond (University of Toronto Press, 2019), brings special education’s curious past to bear on
Politics, language policy, commemoration, education Matthew Hayday is a political historian who studies bilingualism and language policies, Canada Day and Dominion Day celebrations, nationalism and identity politics, as well as federalism and intergovernmental relations. He has published extensively on the history of official languages and bilingualism in Canada, including the history of French immersion in
History of education, history education, and public history Kristina Llewellyn is Associate Professor of Social Development Studies and an Associate Member in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Her areas of expertise include the history of education and history education. She is the author or co-author of Democracy’s Angels: The Work of Women Teachers (MQUP,
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History of Medicine and Psychiatry, LSD and psychedelics Erika Dyck is a Canadian medical historian whose research has concentrated on 20th century history of LSD, psychedelics, eugenics, medical experimentation, and psychiatric institutionalization. Her contributions include Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus (2008/2012); and Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice (2013), which examines the contested history of eugenics and birth control
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).
History of medicine, psychiatry, hospitals, disease Susan Lamb occupies the Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine. She is a historian of medicine specializing in 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American contexts. Research specialities include: medical practice and training; asylum medicine and psychiatry; surgery and pathology; nursing; hospital
Drug Regulation Marcel Martel is a professor of history at York University and holds the Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History. He has researched, among other things, issues such as commemoration, drug regulation, French Canada and Francophone minority communities, Francophone immigration, the RCMP, and internal surveillance, and has often worked with media.
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
Addiction 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.
Constitutional history and issues, and the Senate Author of Governing With the Charter (2005), James Kelly has explored the democratic rights flowing from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and tackled the relationship between judicial power and parliamentary democracy. Kelly has argued that the alleged threat of judicial activism has been overblown, and that instead, Cabinet has
Health, Medecine, Immunization Laurence Monnais is a historian of medicine and health and specialist of Southeast Asia (Vietnam) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Pluralism and has worked on the relationships between colonization and medicine, encounters between biomedicine and Asian medicine, history and the anthropology of medicine,
Commemoration, French Canada Marcel Martel is a professor of history at York University and holds the Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History. He has researched, among other things, issues such as commemoration, drug regulation, French Canada and Francophone minority communities, Francophone immigration, the RCMP, and internal surveillance, and has often worked with media.
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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History and Constitutional Issues and the Senate A senior member of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina, David E. Smith is one of the most established experts in the field of Canadian federalism and on the question of the crucial but often misunderstood role of the Senate in the
Modern Canadian, Black Canadian, Race, Immigration, Law Barrington Walker is an historian of Modern Canada who focuses on the histories of Blacks, race immigration and the law. His work seeks to illuminate the contours of Canadian modernity by exploring Canada’s emergence as racial state through its histories of white supremacy, slavery, colonization/immigration, segregation and Jim
Parks Canada, national historic sites, and the Canadian Museum of History Lyle Dick is a past CHA President and has published extensively in the fields of Arctic, Canadian, and American history and historiography. In 2012, following a 35-year career with Parks Canada, he became the principal of Lyle Dick History and Heritage in Vancouver. He
Cultural heritage, popular culture and media Pierre Lavoie is an historian, a professor in the Department of Humanities at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and a member of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIEQ) and the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM). He specializes in the transnational cultural history of
Library and Archives Canada Nicole Neatby has published in the fields of women’s history and Quebec history. Her research interests also focus on public history, including the history of the Quebec government’s tourism promotion and North American travel writers’ expectations about and reactions to the province. She has recently helped lead the CHA’s advocacy efforts
Collective memory and remembrance; World Wars; Canada’s military history after 1945 Desaree Rosskopf specializes in Canadian military history from 1914 to the present, with an emphasis on its impact on collective memory and commemoration. She holds a Master’s degree in History from Western University and is a Master of Education candidate at Wilfred Laurier University.
Susan Nance is Professor of History and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the history of animals in entertainment. Susan is the author of various books and articles including Rodeo: An Animal History (University of Oklahoma
Black Canadian history, African diaspora, Atlantic slavery, Feminist and women’s studies, Black literatures and oratures Celebrated as a multidisciplinary scholar, author, and artist, Dr. Afua Cooper was recently invested with the Order of Nova Scotia, the province’s highest honour. Her 13 books range across such genres as history, poetry, fiction, and children’s literature. Afua Cooper
Politics and Federalism Michael Behiels has written seminal works on Quebec and Canadian political and intellectual history. More recently, he has explored how Canadian federalism has functioned historically, and how it has changed under the current government to become a more asymmetrical form of federalism based on the concept of classical, watertight jurisdictional compartments for
Modern Canadian, Black Canadian, Race, Immigration, Law Barrington Walker is an historian of Modern Canada who focuses on the histories of Blacks, race immigration and the law. His work seeks to illuminate the contours of Canadian modernity by exploring Canada’s emergence as racial state through its histories of white supremacy, slavery, colonization/immigration, segregation and Jim
