Northern Ontario, resource development in Canada, forest industry
Mark Kuhlberg is a Professor of History at Laurentian University in Sudbury and his expertise is Canada’s forest history. He was a historical researcher on several successful First Nation timber claims and has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles and several books. Mark spent 20 seasons in the tree planting industry in northern Ontario and Alberta and continues to be actively involved in contemporary forestry issues.
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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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Commemoration, French Canada
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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Cultural and political history of Francophone minorities
Joel Belliveau is associate professor at the Laurentian University history department. He specialises in the intellectual, cultural and political history of 19th and 20th century Acadian communities. He has also published on Québec’s Quiet Revolution, the birth of Franco-Ontarian militancy and Catalan nationalism. His first monograph was published in French by the University of Ottawa Press in 2014, and then in English under the title In the Spirit of ’68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia by UBC press in 2019. He has recently co-directed a collective work entitled La vague nationale des années 1968: une comparaison internationale at the University of Ottawa Press (2020).
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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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French-Canadian migrations and Quebec religious and political history
A former Fulbright scholar, Patrick Lacroix specializes in French-Canadian and Acadian migrations. Beyond his research on Franco-American communities and the larger North American francophonie, he studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec history as the religious and political backdrop to these diasporas. Dr. Lacroix’s work on immigration and minority communities has appeared in top-ranked journals including Histoire sociale/Social History, the Canadian Journal of History, and the Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française. He is also the author of the forthcoming John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith (2021). Dr. Lacroix has most recently taught at Acadia University and Mount Saint Vincent University.
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Student movements, feminism and women’s movements, as well as Indigenous, economic, and environmental movements, and the counterculture
Roberta Lexier is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. She has published on Sixties student movements in English Canada and the intersections between social movements and political parties, especially the New Democratic Party (NDP). Her current SSHRC-funded research project examines the history of the left in Canada through the lens of the Lewis family.
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Gender and work, unions and labour relations, worker organizing
Julia Smith is an Associate Professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba on Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation. Her research and teaching focus on the political economy of work and labour relations in North America and the history and politics of women’s labour activism. She has published articles on feminist union organizing, labour relations in the banking industry and child care sector, and the work experiences and labour militancy of flight attendants.
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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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History and political economy of Canadian and Olympic sport
Bruce Kidd is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, and the founding dean of that faculty. He has also served the University of Toronto as vice president and principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough and Warden of Hart House. He has authored or edited 12 books and hundreds of articles, papers, lectures, plays and film and radio scripts.
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