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

Postwar business, economic and political history Dimitry Anastakis is the LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the University of Toronto in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management. He specializes in postwar business, economic and political history, with a focus on business-state relations and the auto industry in Canada.

Labour history, Mennonite history, food history  Janis Thiessen specializes in Canadian histories of labour, Mennonites, and food. Her/their research approaches include oral history, public history, and digital history. Publications include Manufacturing Mennonites (UTP 2013), NOT Talking Union (MQUP 2016), Snacks (U of M Press 2017), Necessary Idealism (CMU Press 2018), and mmm…Manitoba (with Kimberley Moore, UM Press 2024). Thiessen is principal investigator on the Manitoba