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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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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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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English
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Family, Child Welfare, Health
Cynthia Comacchio researches the interrelations of class, gender, family and state in post-Confederation Canada, child and maternal welfare in the twentieth century, fatherhood, adolescence, the politics of health and health care, and industrial hygiene and “the technological sublime.” She is the author of The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920-50 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006).
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Canada-US relations; environmental history/diplomacy; Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Daniel Macfarlane’s research focuses on Canadian-American transborder environmental history and policy, especially in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin. He is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on Canada-US border waters, and is completing a book on the transnational engineering of Niagara Falls. He is also working on a survey history of Canadian-American environmental and water relations, and a project on the history of the International Joint Commission.
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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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History and Constitutional Issues and the Senate
A senior member of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina, David E. Smith is one of the most established experts in the field of Canadian federalism and on the question of the crucial but often misunderstood role of the Senate in the functioning of Canadian federalism.
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Women’s history, rights and issues
Author of Ménagères au temps de la Crise (1991) and Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité au Québec, 1910-1970 (2004), Denyse Baillargeon’s current research explores the popularization of psychological theories concerning the education of children in Quebec after the Second World War, and the interactions between women and the city.
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French
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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 the Education Coordinator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington.
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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 the Education Coordinator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington.
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English
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