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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Urban Environment
Sean Kheraj is a co-editor of https://niche-canada.org/ where he produces and hosts Nature’s Past, the Canadian environmental history podcast. His research focuses on the historical relationship between people and animals in urban environments. His most recent work is Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (2013).
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English
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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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English
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History of disasters
Jacob Remes is a historian of the United States and Canada, with particular expertise in disasters (natural and otherwise), labor and other social movements, migration, and religion. He is the author of several articles on these topics and is completing a book on working-class experience of, and response to, disasters in U.S. and Canadian cities.
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English
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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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English
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The Great War
Carl Bouchard is a specialist on the First World War. More broadly, he studies international relations and pacifism in the twentieth century.
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French
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The Second World War
Serge Durflinger specializes in Canadian military, naval, and diplomatic history as well as the history of veterans, military memorialization, and the impact of war on ordinary Canadians. His publications include Veterans with a Vision: Canada’s War Blinded in Peace and War (2010), which studies soldiers wounded during the Second World War, and Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec (2006), a micro-history of the war effort on the home-front.
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English
French
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The Great War
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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English
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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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English
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First World War
Brian Tennyson’s research interests include: First World War, Canadian military history, Cape Breton history. Author/editor of 17 books, most recently Canada’s Great War: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation.
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