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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History of education, history education, and public history
Kristina Llewellyn is Associate Professor of Social Development Studies and an Associate Member in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Her areas of expertise include the history of education and history education. She is the author or co-author of Democracy’s Angels: The Work of Women Teachers (MQUP, 2012); The Canadian Oral History Reader (MQUP, 2015); Oral History and Education (Palgrave, 2017); and Oral History, Education, and Justice (Rutledge, 2019). Dr. Llewellyn’s current SSHRC projects include Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, History Education Initiative (www.dohr.ca), Citizens of the World: Youth, Global Citizenship, and the Model United Nations, as well as Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future (www.thinking-historically.ca).
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History of Medicine and Psychiatry, LSD and psychedelics
Erika Dyck is a Canadian medical historian whose research has concentrated on 20th century history of LSD, psychedelics, eugenics, medical experimentation, and psychiatric institutionalization. Her contributions include Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus (2008/2012); and Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice (2013), which examines the contested history of eugenics and birth control in Alberta.
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Alcohol Consumption
Craig Heron is a professor at York University, a past president of the CHA, and editor for the University of Toronto Press. He has authored several notable works on Canadian social history, including The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History (1989, 1996) and Booze in Canada: A History (2003).
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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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History of medicine, psychiatry, hospitals, disease
Susan Lamb occupies the Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine. She is a historian of medicine specializing in 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American contexts. Research specialities include: medical practice and training; asylum medicine and psychiatry; surgery and pathology; nursing; hospital architecture and management; laboratory discoveries and public health responses to epidemic disease. Dr. Lamb is the author of Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (2014) and articles in peer-reviewed journals. A Canadian, she obtained her Ph.D. from the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and B.F.A. from York University.
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English
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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.
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Addiction
Jeremy Milloy is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Peterborough, Ontario who is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the historical relationship between addiction and work under capitalism in the United States and Canada, 1965-1995.
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English
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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, and health practices of immigrants in Quebec. It is from a critical perspective of a global history that she now focuses more particularly on the refusals of vaccinations and on the history of measles in the world.
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English
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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.
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