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Katrina Ackerman is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation explores abortion politics in the Maritime provinces between 1969 and 1996.

Aidé Acosta is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Latino Studies Program at Indiana University. Her ethnographic research addresses the quotidian experiences of immigration politics by examining the intersections of the law, cultural integration, and Latino migration into the American Heartland.

J. William Brennan taught western Canadian history at the University of Regina for 38 years. His publications include Regina: An Illustrated History (1989) and articles on provincial and Regina city politics.

Sean Cadigan, Head of the History Department at Memorial University, has a long affiliation with Labour/le Travail. He is the author of numerous books and articles and his Newfoundland and Labrador: A History won the prestigious 2010 Dafoe Prize, awarded annually to writing that contributes to the understanding of Canada and its place in the world.

Rebecca Hill is the Director of the Masters of Arts in American Studies Program at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, and is the author of Men, Mobs and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in US Radical History (2009).

Margaret C. Jacob is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among her many publications is Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (2006).

Nancy Janovicek is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Calgary. She is the author of No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement (2007) and editor with Catherine Carstairs of Writing Feminist History: Productive Pasts and Future Directions (2013).

Joseph Kelly is Assistant Professor of history at Athabasca University, specializing in African American history and the global history of the African diaspora.

David Levine is the author of many books, including Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History (1987); a co-authored study with Keith Wrightson, The Making of Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560–1765 (1991); and At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe After the Year 1000 (2001). He teaches in what is now known as the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning.

Bettina Liverant is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. She is completing a book entitled Buying Happiness, examining the emergence of Canada as a consumer society. Her research focuses on consumerism, and the development of corporate philanthropy in Canada. [End Page 1]

Tina Loo is the Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at the University of British Columbia, and is the author of the award-winning States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (2006).

Michael Merrill, who interviewed E.P. Thompson for the Radical Historians Organization Visions of History (1983) collection, is Dean of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Centre for Labor Studies, Empire State College, New York, New York. With Sean Wilentz he edited The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, ‘A Laborer’, 1747–1814 (1993) and his scholarly articles have appeared in Radical History Review, Labor History, and William & Mary Quarterly.

Robert A.J. McDonald is a retired member of the History Department at the University of British Columbia. He published Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863–1913 and is currently writing a political history of British Columbia to the 1970s.

Jessica Millward is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on comparative slavery and emancipation, African American history, gender, and the law. Dr. Millward’s manuscript on enslaved women and freedom in revolutionary Maryland is forthcoming as part of the Race in the Atlantic World series, University of Georgia Press.

James Naylor is a member of the Department of History at Brandon University. He is currently completing a national study of Canadian socialism and working-class identity during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Jeff Noonan is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Windsor...

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