History of migration, 19th and 20th century refugee movements and the history of humanitarianism
Professor Madokoro is an award-winning historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard, 2016) and co-editor of Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History (UBC, 2017). Her current research focuses on the history of sanctuary.
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Scandinavian language, literature, and culture
Natalie M. Van Deusen is the inaugural Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Alberta, where she teaches a variety of courses on Scandinavian language, literature, and culture. Her research interests include Old Norse-Icelandic paleography and philology, manuscript culture, hagiography and religious literature, and womenʼs and gender studies.
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Indigenous-Settler Relations; Indian Residential Schools; Educational Policy; Cultural Representations
Sean Carleton is an expert in Indigenous-Settler relations in Canada, and his research examines the history of settler colonialism, capitalism, colonial violence and Indigenous resistance, and the rise of state schooling (common, public, mission, day, boarding and industrial schools) in Western Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology
Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà Gwich’in and her expertise centres around the histories of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, childhood studies, gender and sexuality, oral history, and Indigenous theory and methodology. In particular, northern twentieth-century histories is her main interest.
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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, and historical memory of Indigenous-settler relations in Quebec and Canada.
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Indigenous land and water development, community partnership
Brittany Luby specializes in the history of hydroelectric development in Treaty #3, focusing on Anishinabeg responses to industrial incursions. Her work can be found in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. Luby has also lectured extensively on building partnerships between the academy and Indigenous communities interested in research.
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Aboriginal peoples; Metis and First Nations history; community and family history; and the impact of colonization
Brenda Macdougall is a leading expert in the history of Métis and First Nations and Ontario’s first Chair in Métis Research.
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Aboriginal and treaty history, rights and issues
Order of Canada recipient Jim Miller is one of the foremost experts in Canadian Aboriginal history, having written several seminal works on Native-Newcomer relations, Treaty history, and Indian Residential Schools.
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Community Based Research; Oral history; Indigenous history in British Columbia; Treaties; Aboriginal Legal History; and Environmental History
A member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, Daniel Sims’ expertise is on Indigenous history in British Columbia with a focus on historic and modern treaties, Aboriginal legal history and policy, and the environment. Coming from a long line of Tsek’ehne oral historians, his research is community based and he has worked extensively with his own community as well as Kwadacha, McLeod Lake, and Maskwacis. Currently he is the chair of First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.
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Security and the state
Greg Kealey is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Greg Kealey specializes in Canadian Social History, Labour History, and Security and Intelligence History. In addition to two prize-winning books on Social and Labour History, he co-edited Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s (2011) and co-authored a history of the Canadian secret service, entitled Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America (2013).
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