Contributors

Matt Cavers studied historical geography at the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University. He now works as a brewer at a craft brewery and hop farm on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

Colin M. Coates is director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, and he teaches environmental history and Canadian studies at York University. He is past president of the Canadian Studies Network–Réseau d’études canadiennes.

Megan J. Davies is an associate professor at York University and a BC historian with research interests in madness, marginal and alternative health practices, old age, rural medicine, and social welfare. Her recent projects include After the Asylum, a research site about the history of deinstitutionalization in Canada, and the documentary film The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Stories from MPA.

Nancy Janovicek teaches Canadian history and gender history at the University of Calgary. She is the author of No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement (UBC Press) and co-editor of Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation (UBC Press).

Alan MacEachern teaches history at the University of Western Ontario and is the founding director of NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. He has written extensively on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s, including The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable (2003).

David Neufeld, an environmental historian living and working in the Yukon Territory, studies the intersection of knowledge and practice in settler and First Nations approaches to their shared subarctic boreal homeland. His reflexive research approach is grounded in thirty years as a community-based cultural researcher for Parks Canada.

Ryan O’Connor Ryan O’Connor is the author of The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario (UBC Press, 2015). An Associate Member of the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy at the University of Stirling (Scotland), he maintains a research blog at www.ryanoconnor.ca.

Kathleen Rodgers teaches sociology at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia (UBC Press) and co-editor of Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies (UBC Press).

Daniel Ross is a PhD candidate in history at York University. He studies urban, political, and environmental history and is currently completing a dissertation on the politics of development and public space in downtown Toronto from the 1940s onwards.

Henry Trim is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studies forecasting and sustainability in North America. He has written about science and American counterculture, environmental politics, and Canadian energy policy.

Sharon Weaver completed her PhD at the University of Guelph in 2013. Her dissertation, “Making Place on the Canadian Periphery: Back-to-the-Land on the Gulf Islands and Cape Breton,” is a comparative study of back-to-the-landers in Cape Breton and on the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. She is an independent scholar who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.