Contributors
- Contributors
Lisa Dillon is an associate professor with the Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal, and co-director of the Programme de recherches en démographie historique. Dillon specializes in the study of families, aging, and life course transitions in Quebec and Canada during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, as well as the construction of population databases. She has recently published The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008).
Brian Gratton is professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Gratton's recent work has been on immigration and ethnicity in the United States, but he has maintained an interest in retirement, the family, and the social history of older persons – themes that he and Carole Haber wrote about in Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History (Indiana University Press, 1994).
Len Kuffert is assistant professor of history at the University of Manitoba. He studies twentieth-century Canadian cultural history and is working on a book about radio programming and taste in English Canada.
Jon Moen is associate professor of economics and chair of the Economics Department at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. His current research covers re-estimating labour force participation rates for men sixty-five and older in the United States, but he also maintains research interests in banking panics in historical perspective and is working on a book on the Bank Panic of 1907.
Dennis Molinaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the intersections between ethnicity, citizenship, and state security in 1930s Canada. His other research interests include Canadian and international relations during the Cold War.
Liza Piper teaches environmental and Canadian history at the University of Alberta. Her book The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada was published with UBC Press in 2009. She is researching and writing on the relationship between health and environmental [End Page 195] disruption in the Canadian north, and the role of weather and climate in the colonization of northern North America.
Collaborateurs Et Collaboratrices
Lisa Dillon est professeure agrégée au Département de démographie de l'Université de Montréal et codirectrice du Programme de recherches en démographie historique. Ses champs de spécialisation sont les suivants : la famille, le vieillissement et les transitions dans la vie des families au Québec et au Canada, aux xviie, xviiie et xixe siècles, ainsi que l'élaboration de banques de données démographiques. Elle a publié récemment The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States, McGill-Queer's University Press, 2008.
Brian Gratton est professeur d'histoire à la School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies de l'Arizona State University à Tempe (Arizona). L'ouvrage le plus récent de cet historien porte sur l'immigration et l'ethnicité aux États-Unis, mais il s'intéresse toujours à la retraite, à la famille et à l'histoire sociale des personnes âgées - thèmes sur lesquels Carole Haber et lui ont écrit dans Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History, Indiana University Press, 1994.
Len Kuffert est professeur adjoint en histoire à l'Université du Manitoba. Il étudie l'histoire culturelle du Canada au xxe siècle et prépare un livre sur la programmation radiophoniques et leur mode au Canada anglais.
Jon Moen est professeur d'économie et Directeur du Département de science économique à l'University of Mississippi à Oxford (Miss.). Ses recherches en cours portent sur une réévaluation des taux d'activité de la population active chez les hommes de 65 ans et plus aux ÉtatsUnis, mais il s'intéresse également aux paniques bancaires dans une perspective historique et prépare un ouvrage sur la panique bancaire de 1907 aux États-Unis.
Dennis Molinaro est doctorant au Département d'histoire de l'Université de Toronto. Ses recherches portent sur les croisements entre ethnicité, citoyenneté et sécurité de l'État au Canada...
