Business history, labour history, and the history of food
Janis Thiessen specializes in business history, labour history, and the history of food. Her research approaches include oral history, public history, and digital history. Her books include Manufacturing Mennonites (UTP 2013), NOT Talking Union (MQUP 2016), Snacks (U of M Press 2017), and Necessary Idealism (CMU Press 2018). Her current research involves the Manitoba Food History Truck (https://www.manitobafoodhistory.ca/).
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English
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Business history, labour history, and the history of food
Janis Thiessen specializes in business history, labour history, and the history of food. Her research approaches include oral history, public history, and digital history. Her books include Manufacturing Mennonites (UTP 2013), NOT Talking Union (MQUP 2016), Snacks (U of M Press 2017), and Necessary Idealism (CMU Press 2018). Her current research involves the Manitoba Food History Truck (https://www.manitobafoodhistory.ca/).
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English
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K-12 educational policy present and past
As a historian appointed in a faculty of education, Jason Ellis researches and teaches about the historical origins of schooling and education. His new book A Class by Themselves: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond (University of Toronto Press, 2019), brings special education’s curious past to bear on its constantly contested present. It shows how today’s debates in the field are the product of unresolved disputes that date back to special education’s origins at the turn of the twentieth century.
His current major research project, which was supported by a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, is a historical study of schooling in Canadian suburbs. A case study of Etobicoke in metropolitan Toronto, the project examines the relationship schooling bears to social opportunity and income inequality in the suburbs today.
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English
French
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Canadian, American, Management/Business, Labour and Working-Class
Jason Russell is an Associate Professor of Labour Studies at Empire State College – SUNY in New York State. He completed a Ph.D. in History at York University, and is the author of several books and articles relating to labour and working-class history and management and business history.
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English
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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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Labour
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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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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English
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Women and work, trade unions and social movements
Joan Sangster taught in the History, Canadian Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies departments at Trent University. A past president of the CHA/SHC and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is currently co-editor of the Canadian labour history journal, Labour/le travail. Her books include Transforming Labour: Women and work in Post-war Canada, Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small –Town Ontario and Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada.
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English
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The women’s movement, working women, gender and the criminal justice system
Joan Sangster taught in the History, Canadian Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies departments at Trent University. A past president of the CHA/SHC and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is currently co-editor of the Canadian labour history journal, Labour/le travail. Her books include Transforming Labour: Women and work in Post-war Canada, Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small –Town Ontario and Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada.
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English
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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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English
French