Post 1960s politics in North America; Donald Trump; populism (the ‘left behind’) 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
Taxation and public finance Shirley Tillotson specializes in modern Canadian history, socio-political history, taxation history, and gender and women’s history. She received critical recognition for her books, Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66 (2008), and The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Postwar Ontario (2000)
Legal history, bankruptcy and insolvency, debtor/creditor law Virginia Torrie is a lawyer and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. She specializes in the legal history of Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law. Her approach is socio-political and attentive to the way interest groups, federalism, unintended consequences, and accidents of timing influence
Canadian foreign policy Adam Chapnick studies the history of Canadian foreign policy. He has published extensively on Canadian contributions to the United Nations, Canada-US relations, and Canadian diplomatic practice more generally.
Canada’s external relations Robin Gendron is an expert in Canadian foreign relations, la francophonie, Cold War history, and the international history of Canadian multinational corporations. He has also researched Canada’s relations with other members of the Francophonie and with developing countries, and the international interests of Canadian mining companies. He is currently studying the expansion
Canada-US relations; environmental history/diplomacy; Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Daniel Macfarlane’s research focuses on Canadian-American transborder environmental history and policy, especially in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin. He is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on Canada-US border waters, and
Canada-US history, migration from Canada, and the history of disasters Jacob Remes is a historian of the United States and Canada, with particular expertise in disasters (natural and otherwise), labor and other social movements, migration, and religion. He is the author of several articles on these topics and is completing a book on working-class experience
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
