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.
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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 recently joined the University of Toronto Scarborough where she is now the Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Black Canadian and African Diasporas Histories, and Feminist Epistemologies. Previously, she held a Killam Research Chair at Dalhousie. Dr. Cooper has put Black Studies on the map in Canada by ensuring the infrastructural development of Black studies by founding and launching the Black Canadian Studies Association. She founded and co-ordinated the Black Studies program at Dalhousie University. Afua’s engagement with Black studies, anti-racism, EDI, and epistemic disruptions in the Canadian academy has made her not only a national figure but an international one as well.
In 2021, Dr. Cooper received over one-million dollar in funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage to research Black Canadian history across time and space. As the PI for this project A Black People’s History of Canada, Afua led a team of researchers and curriculum developers to explore and mobilize knowledge about Black people’s history in Canada and the African Diaspora.
She is the acknowledged authority on Black Canadian history and a leading expert in Black Canadian studies. Her book on Canadian slavery, The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montreal broke new ground in the study of Canadian and Atlantic slavery, and women’s history. Dr. Cooper has curated and co-curated ten exhibits on Black history and culture. The most recent, “A History Exposed: The Enslavement of Black People in Canada” is the first national exhibit of slavery in Canada and opened at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 on 1 August 2024.
Dr. Cooper was part of the collaborative team that recently won the SSHRC Impact Connection Award (2024) for Outstanding Research Collaboration: Trans-Atlantic Pilgrimage: African Histories, Poetry, Music.
Afua Cooper was a Fellow at the Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, where she conducted research on slavery and higher education, and was part of an international cohort of scholars engaged in similar work. In 2021, Prof. Cooper was appointed as the Canadian representative for UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee Slave Route Project.
An eminent poet, Afua is a founder of the Dub Poetry Movement in Canada. In 2020 she was Awarded the Portia White Prize, Nova Scotia’s highest recognition for the arts, and was nominated for the Premier of Ontario’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her latest book of poetry, The Halifax Explosion, was recently released to wide acclaim.
In addition, Dr. Cooper earned the Nova Scotia Human Rights Award for her contribution to education, the Bob Marley Prize from the City of Toronto, the Harry Jerome Award, and was acknowledged by Maclean’s magazine as one of the 50 most influential Canadians. Moreover, Afua was conferred with honorary doctorates by Simon Fraser University and the University of Ottawa. She also earned Canada’s most prestigious history award, the Royal Society of Canada J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal for outstanding contribution to Canadian history. Afua Cooper’s papers are housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, University of Toronto.
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Climate history, history of national parks, history of forest fires
Alan MacEachern has long experience writing for the scholarly and popular press about the history of Canadians’ relations with nature. He was the founding director of NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment, has co-produced textbooks on Canadian environmental history methodology and on Canadian history, and is the editor of the Canadian History & Environment series at University of Calgary Press. His latest book is The Miramichi Fire: A History (2020).
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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 by studying the deinstitutionalization movement, relations between Anglophone and Francophones communities or the emergence of psychiatric nursing. He is also interested in the emergence of experimental psychology in the first half of the twentieth century, and pursuing since 2008 the edition and study of the archives of the French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911). Finally, he is the coordinator of the research network Historiens de la santé that he formed in 2012.
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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 has published: Travail d’ombre et de lumière (1990); Femmes, santé et professions (1997); Quand devient-on-elles vieux? (2007); Les hôpitaux du Québec en chiffres, 1914-1960 (2010); http://hopitauxqc.cieq.ca “Âges de vie, genre et temporalités sociales” (special issue of Enfances, familles et générations, 2017); “Travail, temps, pouvoirs et résistances” (special issue of Recherches féministes, 2017).
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French
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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).
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The Great War
Amy Shaw is an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge. Her research interests include war, anti-war movements, gender and citizenship in Canada especially during the two world wars and the War in South Africa. Her most recent books are Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (UBC 2020, and Fat & the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations (UTP 2025).
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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 the contemporary humanities and liberal arts in Canada and their value. Some important topics within this are economic value, citizenship, decolonization, and identity.
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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 the contemporary humanities and liberal arts in Canada and their value. Some important topics within this are economic value, citizenship, decolonization, and identity.
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English
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 Crowism. Much of his work considers how these practices were legitimized, and in some instances contested, by the rule of law and legal institutions.
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