Contributors
- Contributors
Christopher Alcantara is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the co-author of Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010) and the author of Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press). He has published numerous academic journal articles and is currently the principal investigator for two SSHRC Research Grants, one on territorial devolution in the Canadian North and one on First Nation-municipal intergovernmental relations in Canada.
Tolly Bradford was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan (2009–2011). He is currently a research associate in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba.
Laura K. Davis received her doctorate in English from the University of Alberta in 2006. She holds a full-time faculty position in English at Red Deer College, and she teaches and researches in the areas of Canadian literature, contemporary women’s literature, and writing studies.
Erika Dyck is an associate professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.
Jennifer Harris is an associate professor in the Department of English at Mount Allison University. Her essays have appeared in African American Review, Journal of American Culture, Canadian Review of American Studies, and elsewhere.
Renée Hulan teaches Canadian literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002) and editor of Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (ECW Press, 1999). From 2005–2008, she served with Donald Wright as editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes. With Renate Eigenbrod, she edited Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (Fernwood, 2008).
Jennifer R. Kelly is a professor and department chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Borrowed Identities (Peter Lang, 2004) and Under the Gaze: Learning to Be Black in White Society (Fernwood, 1998). Her recent SSHRC-funded three-year research project, “Racialization, Immigration, and Citizenship: Alberta 1900–1960s,” explores how processes of immigration and racialization affected the social formation of African-Canadian communities in Alberta. [End Page 254]
Roberto Leone has a doctorate in comparative public policy from McMaster University. He was formerly an assistant professor of Political Science and of Leadership and Journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University. He currently serves in the Ontario legislature as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Cambridge. He has published a number of academic articles in national and international journals, as well as co-editing Approaching Public Administration: Core Debates and Emerging Issues (Emond Montgomery Publications, 2011).
Hildy S. Ross is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo. She is co-editor of The Origins of Ownership of Property (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
Ian J. Slater is the managing editor of the history of science journal Isis and is a historian of science and technology. He teaches in the Science and Technology Studies and Natural Science programs in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at York University. He specializes in innovation studies, the history of the Canadian nuclear industry, and the impacts of privatization and globalization on science and technology.
Zachary Spicer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Western University, where his focus is on Canadian and local government and public policy. He holds degrees from McMaster University and Wilfrid Laurier University and completed his methodology training in 2011 at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. His research has been presented at several Canadian Political Science Association annual conferences and has appeared in a number of international and Canadian political science journals.
Jordan Stanger-Ross is an associate professor of History and chair of “The City Talks” (www.thecitytalks.ca) at the University of Victoria. He is author of Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
David Stymeist is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. He...
