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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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 recently served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and on advisory committees for the Canadian Museum of History and the National Capital Commission in Ottawa. His work stresses the importance of local knowledge and respect for diversity as key components of cultural survival, for both small communities and Canada.
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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 Québec and North American francophonies. His work focuses on the relationship between celebrity, migration, and collective identification, as well as on the circulation of individuals, practices, and products associated with popular and mass culture. His first book, Mille après mille. Célébrité et migrations dans le Nord-Est américain, was published by Éditions du Boréal in 2022.
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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 on the crucial issues surrounding libraries and archives.
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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.
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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 Press, 2020), Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). She is also sole editor of Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents (Broadview Press, 2022) and two other university textbooks for animal history courses (in progress).
Susan’s current research consists of two related projects on animals in entertainment in the 20th century United States: 1) A history of the exotic animal trade; 2) A history dog racing and greyhound adoption and advocacy.
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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 the provincial and federal governments.
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Politics and Federalism
A specialist in Canadian federalism and the history of Ontario, Penny Bryden’s work probes the nature of relationships within government and between governments. Her publications include ‘A Justifiable Obsession’: Conservative Ontario’s Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 (2013) and Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968 (1997).
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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. He recently published the two-volume edited collection Celebrating Canada with Raymond Blake (University of Regina) on national holidays, commemorative events and celebrations, how they contribute to the shaping of national and regional identities, and the political context surrounding their creation and implementation. His current project is a biography of the Right Honorable Joe Clark.
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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 number of major research projects, most notably the prize-winning “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations,” and is currently leading the transnational SSHRC-funded partnership project “Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time.”
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