Contributors
Ben Bradley is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. His research examines the linkages between mobility, landscape, and mass culture in twentieth-century Canada.
Judy Burns is a retired curatorial assistant at Lawrence House Museum in Maitland, Nova Scotia.
Jim Clifford is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.
Colin M. Coates teaches environmental history and Canadian studies at York University. He is past president of the Canadian Studies Network–Réseau d’études canadiennes and was a member of the executive of NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and Environment.
Ken Cruikshank is Dean of Arts and an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. His current research focuses on urban environmental history, with a particular focus on Hamilton, Ontario.
Jessica Dunkin is the On the Land Programs consultant at the NWT Recreation and Parks Association. Prior to moving to Yellowknife, she was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University. Jess completed her Ph.D. in history at Carleton University in 2012.
Elizabeth L. Jewett is the W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. Her dissertation at the University of Toronto examined the development of golf course landscapes in Canada between 1870 and 1945 through the lens of environmental history.
Don Lafreniere is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. His research interests are spread across the intersection of urban geography, social history, demography, and geographic information science. His primary interest is in GIS methodologies for analyzing qualitative historical sources.
Elsa Lam is editor-in-chief of Canadian Architect magazine and holds a doctorate in architectural history and theory from Columbia University. She previously studied architectural history at McGill University and architectural design at the University of Waterloo.
Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert is a senior editor at l’Encyclopédie Canadienne, which is a project of Historica Canada. She completed her Ph.D. in history at the Université de Montreal in 2014.
J.I. Little is professor emeritus in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. His most recent book is Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829–1908.
Daniel Macfarlane is assistant professor in the Environmental and Sustainability Studies program at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the U.S., and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway and is co-editing a book on the history of Canadian-American water relations.
Merle Massie is a research officer at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan. A writer and farmer in west-central Saskatchewan, she is a specialist in local, place, and provincial history.
Tor H. Oiamo is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cross-Border Institute at the University of Windsor. His research focuses on environmental health issues in urban settings through the application of interdisciplinary methods, including historical research, policy analysis, exposure assessment, and community health studies.
Joy Parr is professor emerita in the geography department at the University of Western Ontario. She wrote about the changing interfaces between human natures and built environments in Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953–2003.
Thomas Peace is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Huron University College and an editor at ActiveHistory.ca.
Andrew Watson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Historical GIS Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan. His dissertation examined the ways social, economic, and environmental changes shaped sustainability in Muskoka, Ontario, between 1850 and 1920.
Jay Young is outreach officer at the Archives of Ontario and a founding editor of ActiveHistory.ca. He completed his doctorate at York University in 2012 followed by a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in history at McMaster University.