The Executive carries on the day-to-day activities of the CHA, while the Council oversees CHA policy and direction. Elected to a three-year term, each Council member is also responsible for a specific “portfolio,” such as membership or prizes, and usually participates in a larger Council committee that deals with publications, communications, outreach, or advocacy. Please feel free to contact Executive or Council members. |
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| | EXECUTIVE MEMBERS | | | President - Lyle Dick Lyle Dick is the West Coast Historian with Parks Canada in Vancouver. He is the author of 90 publications on topics in Canadian and American history, historiography, and Arctic history, including Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (University of Calgary Press, 2001), winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize in 2003, and Farmers “Making Good” (Revised edition, University of Calgary Press, 2008), co-winner of the CHA Clio Prize in 1990. He was awarded three Parks Canada Awards of Excellence, in 1996, 2001, and 2003. He has presented over 100 papers, public presentations, or named lectures across North America and in Europe. Parks Canada |
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| Past President - Mary Lynn Stewart Mary Lynn Stewart is a Professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at Simon Fraser University; she was previously jointly appointed with History there. Author of four monographs in French history, the most recent being Dressing Modern Frenchwomen; Marketing Haute Couture, 1919-1939, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008, she is currently working on a gender analysis of French newspaper journalists in the Interwar Period of the Third French Republic. Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies - Simon Fraser University |
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| Treasurer - James Opp James Opp is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of The Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880-1930 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), and is the co-editor, with John C. Walsh, of Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2010). Opp is a former president of the Canadian Society for Church History and has served as the Director of the Carleton Centre for Public History and Director of Carleton’s Public History M.A. Program. History Department - Carleton University |
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| French-Langage Secretary - Martin Laberge After obtaining his B.A. and M.A. at UQAM, Martin received his PhD from the Université de Montréal in 2006. He is Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Sector at l'Université du Québec en Outaouais where he teaches contemporary European history and the history of international relations. Martin is currently conducting a research project on the role of the Department of the Navy in the development of French foreign policy in the thirties and forties. His book, La mer de tous les espoirs. La quête de puissance française en Méditerranée, 1930-1940 (L’Harmattan, 2011), will be published this year. Martin is also a member of the GIHRIC (Groupement interuniversitaire pour l’histoire des relations internationales contemporaines). Sciences sociales Department - UQO |
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| English-Language Secretary - Amber Loydlangston Amber Lloydlangston, Assistant Historian (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 2002). Amber began work with the Canadian War Museum in 2004, assisting in the production of galleries 3 and 4, “Forged in Fire: The Second World War, 1931-1945” and “A Violent Peace: The Cold War, Peacekeeping, and Recent Conflicts, 1945 to the present,” respectively. Interested in women’s history and other aspects of social history, she is currently conducting research for an upcoming temporary exhibition, entitled “Peace: The Exhibition,” which explores the history of Canadians’ choices and actions for peace. She has also taught at the Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa. Canadian War Museum |
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| | COUNCIL MEMBERS | | | 2009-2012 Aline Charles Aline Charles teaches the history of contemporary Quebec and Canada at the History Department at Laval University. Placing gender at the heart of her analysis, her research explores several themes of social history: the different ages of life, paid work and unpaid work of women, social policies adopted by States and the citizenships that result from it. Adopting a transnational approach, she also examines how norms, ideas and people move across Quebec, Canadian and North American borders. She has published Quand devient-on vieille? Femmes, âge et travail au Québec, 1940-1980. She is also preparing, in collaboration with François Rousseau and Yvan Guérard, a book on the history of the hospital system in Quebec. History Department - Laval University |
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| Juanita De Barros Juanita De Barros is an associate professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. She is the co-editor of Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 and Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History and the author of Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924 and numerous articles and book chapters on the social history of health and medicine in the Caribbean. Her current research is a SSRHC-supported project on urban reform in the British Caribbean; she is also completing a manuscript titled “Reproducing the Race: Sex and Gender in the Post-slavery British Caribbean.” History Department - McMaster University |
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| John Lutz John Lutz teaches Canadian and American History at the University of Victoria and is keenly interested in exploring the affinities between researching and teaching history and digital technology. He is the co-originator of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website project, as well as several other internet projects, <web.uvic.ca/~jlutz> and is currently trying to marry his work on textual analyses of race, with GIS and the display power of Google Earth in a project called “Turning Space Inside Out”. He is the author of Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations. History Department - University of Victoria |
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| 2010-2013 Lisa Dillon Lisa Dillon holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota (1997) and joined the Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal, in 2001. She teaches historical demography and is co-director of the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH). Dillon is the author of The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States (MQUP, 2008). Her most recent publications range from historical demographic analyses of marriage patterns and sibling influences in colonial Québec, to quantitative historical analyses of retirement and the living arrangements of the elderly in turn-of-the-century Canada, to critical discussions of census issues and the construction of historical census databases. Demography Department - University of Montreal |
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| Peter Gossage Peter Gossage holds degrees in history from McGill (BA, MA) and UQÀM (PhD). He has been a Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University since 2009, arriving from the Université de Sherbrooke where he taught for sixteen years. He is a social historian of Quebec whose research focuses on family, gender, and domestic life in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is co-director, with John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell, of the prize-winning educational website Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History (www.canadianmysteries.ca). His current projects include an SSHRC-funded exploration of Quebec fatherhood in the 20th century and, in collaboration with J.I. Little, a concise, illustrated history of Quebec. History Department - Concordia University |
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| Elaine Naylor Elaine Naylor (BA, the Evergreen State College; MA and PhD, York University) is an Associate Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Allison University. Elaine teaches American history and is currently working on the completion of a book manuscript which is focused on the culture of frontier economic development in the nineteenth-century American Northwest. Her most recent publication is “The Jacksonian Frontier,” in Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: Peoples and Perspectives (2008)—a book in the Perspectives in American Social History series. History Department - Mount Allison University |
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| 2011-2014 Barbara Lorenzkowski Barbara Lorenzkowski teaches at Concordia University. She is the author of Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America, 1850-1914 (University of Manitoba Press, 2010). In 2005, she joined Concordia University where she acted as program chair for the 2010 annual meeting of the CHA. Her current research project is a FQRSC-funded study on childhood, space, and memory in wartime Atlantic Canada, tentatively entitled “The Children’s War: Growing Up in the Port Cities of St. John’s, Halifax and Saint John” and based on close to one hundred oral history interviews conducted over the past three years. History Department - Concordia University |
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| Myra Rutherdale Myra completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at McMaster University and her MA and Ph.D at York University. Since 2004, Myra has been a member of York University's Department of History, where she is now an Associate Professor. Her book Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field was published in 2002, and since then she has co-edited with Katie Pickles Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past, (UBC, 2005) and edited Caregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada (McGill-Queen's, 2010). History Department - York Université |
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| Sylvie Taschereau Sylvie obtained a PhD from l’Université du Québec à Montréal in 1993. She specialises in the economic and social history of Canada in the19th and 20th centuries. She is professor at the Department of the Humanities and also a researcher at the Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières since 2001. Her research and publications relate to two separate research fields. On the one hand the history of immigration and ethnic relations. On the other, the history of the petty bourgeoisie, trade and credit. In this field, she more specifically deals with social and cultural history of consumer credit in Quebec in the twentieth century. History Department - UQTR |
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| | STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE | | | 2010-2012 Olivier Côté Olivier Côté holds a Ph.D. in history from Laval University. He specializes in the issue of identity representations in the media. His thesis, forthcoming, concerns the context of production, distribution and reception of popular and media in the series Canada: A People's History. He is currently pursuing a parliamentary internship at the National Assembly as a Jean-Charles-Bonenfant Foundation’s scholar. He is also the general coordinator of the journal HistoireEngagee.ca, which aims to place current issues in historical perspective. |
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| | CHA OFFICE | | | Executive Director - Michel Duquet Michel holds history degrees from the University of Toronto (BA, 2000 and MA, 2001) and the University of Ottawa (PhD, 2007). His doctorate thesis was on the subject of informal justice at Quebec City under the French Regime. Michel has been with the CHA since 2008. |
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