The Second World War Serge Durflinger specializes in Canadian military, naval, and diplomatic history as well as the history of veterans, military memorialization, and the impact of war on ordinary Canadians. His publications include Veterans with a Vision: Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War (2010), which studies soldiers wounded during the Second World War, and Fighting from
Women’s history, rights and issues 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
Women’s history, rights and issues Author of Ménagères au temps de la Crise (1991) and Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité au Québec, 1910-1970 (2004), Denyse Baillargeon’s current research explores the popularization of psychological theories concerning the education of children in Quebec after the Second World War, and the interactions between women and the city.
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Aline Charles explores the social history of Quebec in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on gender analysis. She is particularly interested in Quebec and transnational history, stages of life, female and male aging, the evolution of hospitals and hospices, women’s work, and the gender of social policies. Alone or in collaboration, she
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
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.
Cultural and political history of Francophone minorities Joel Belliveau is associate professor at the Laurentian University history department. He specialises in the intellectual, cultural and political history of 19th and 20th century Acadian communities. He has also published on Québec’s Quiet Revolution, the birth of Franco-Ontarian militancy and Catalan nationalism. His first monograph was published
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
French-Canadian migrations and Quebec religious and political history A former Fulbright scholar, Patrick Lacroix specializes in French-Canadian and Acadian migrations. Beyond his research on Franco-American communities and the larger North American francophonie, he studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec history as the religious and political backdrop to these diasporas. Dr. Lacroix’s work on immigration and minority communities has
The Great War Carl Bouchard is a specialist on the First World War. More broadly, he studies international relations and pacifism in the twentieth century.
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.
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,
Scientific Medecine, Nursing, Psychology Graduate in Philosophy and History of Science. Alexandre Klein specializes in the study of discourses and practices on health in contemporary times. After doing research on the development of scientific medicine and patient discourses in Europe, he is now devoted to the history of Quebec psychiatry in the twentieth century, whether
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
