Contributors
- Contributors
Theodore Binnema is an associate professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001). His present research interests include the history of Indian policy in Canada.
James Farney is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Political Science. He is completing a doctoral dissertation entitled “Swings to the Right: Conservative Ideology in Canada and the United States since 1945.”
David K. Foot is a professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He is co-author of the bestselling books Boom Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century and Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift (with Daniel Stoffman, Stoddart 2000; Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1999, 1996). These books reflect his current research interests which lie in the numerous relationships between economics and demographics and in the resulting implications for both private and public policies, especially in the Canadian context.
Stuart Henderson is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Queen’s University. His work examines youth cultures in post-war North America, with a particular emphasis on the role of minority dissent in the liberal capitalist society. His dissertation is entitled “Making the Scene: Yorkville and the Toronto Counterculture(s), 1961-1971.”
Kevin Hutchings is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is author of Imagining Nature: Blake’s Environmental Poetics (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002). He is currently working on a SSHRC-sponsored, book-length project investigating British Romantic representations of the Americas.
Bohdan S. Kordan is a professor of International Relations, Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-45: A Study in Statecraft (2001), and Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War (2002). He has also recently co-authored with C. Mahovsky, A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (2004).
PearlAnn Reichwein is a historian and assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. She specializes in teaching and research related to the history of national parks, recreation, sport, tourism, conservation, and heritage resources in the Canadian Rockies. Currently, she is researching the history of the Banff School of Fine Arts. She is the author of numerous articles and co-editor of Mountain Diaries: The Alpine Adventures of Margaret Fleming, 1909-1980 (2004), a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Festival.
Candida Rifkind is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is currently preparing a manuscript on the literary left in 1930s Canada and another book-length study of English-Canadian serial fiction and the politics of popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.
Rosemary A. Venne is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour at the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include, demographic effects on the labour force and on career patterns, as well work-time scheduling including alternative work-time arrangements.
Jerry Wasserman is an actor, critic, and a professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He has published widely on Canadian theatre, has edited Modern Canadian Plays (Talonbooks), now in its fourth edition, and runs the web site www.vancouverplays.com.
Donald G. Wetherell teaches in the Faculty of Communications and Culture, University of Calgary. His two most recent books are (with Irene Kmet), Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta 1880-1947 (1995) and Alberta’s North: A History 1890-1950 (2001), which was awarded the Clio Prize (Prairies) by the Canadian Historical Association in 2001. He is currently working on a history of the relationship of wildlife and people in prairie Canada between 1870 and 1965 as well as a book of the writings of the architect and town planner, Cecil Burgess.
