Contributors
- Contributors
Dominique Clément is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937–1982 and is currently writing a book tentatively titled “Women and the Human Rights State in British Columbia, 1953–1984.” For a research and teaching portal on the history of the human rights movement in Canada, please visit www.HistoryOfRights.com .
Cinda Gault teaches at the University of Guelph. Her doctoral dissertation, Female and National Identities: Laurence, Atwood, and Engel, 1965–1980, focussed on Canadian women writers who came to publishing prominence during the Canadian nationalist and second-wave feminist movements. Recent work includes the representation of maternity and language in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, and portrayals of reproductive control in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.
Lisa McDermott is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Her current research involves the sociocultural studies of sport and leisure.
Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. She has published widely critical museum theory and history, including articles in Cultural Studies (1998), Acadiensis (2003), New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction (2005), and the Canadian Historical Review (2006), which was awarded the CHR prize for 2006. Her current book manuscript is entitled “Between Museums: Exchanging Objects, Values and Identities, 1842–1950.”
Wendy Robbins is a full professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, the first woman in the university’s more than 200-year history to attain this position. She is a co-founder of UNB’s Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Program and of the Canadian feminist discussion list PAR-L. In 2007 she won a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Person’s Case.
Eric Spalding is the Department Head for Social, Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. His areas of interest include popular music and cultural policy.
Ryan Touhey is an assistant professor of history at St. Jerome’s University (in the University of Waterloo) and a recipient of a 2008–2009 Canadian International Council research fellowship.
Jeff A. Webb teaches history at Memorial University. He is editor of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and has most recently written The Voice of Newfoundland: A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, 1939–1949. [End Page 210]
