Contributors

202 Contributors Contributors Christopher Anderson is a doctoral student in the Department of History at McGill University. Raphael Cohen-Almagor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa. In 1999-2000 he was awarded the Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Award and was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law. Dr. Cohen-Almagor is the author of Tile Boundaries ofLiberty and Tolerance (1994), Speecl1, Media and Ethics (2001), The Right to Die in Dignity: An Argu111e11t in Ethics, Medicine, and Law (2001) and Euthanasia in the Netherlands (forthcoming); editor of Basic Issues in Israeli Den1ocracy (1999, Hebrew), Liberal De1nocracy and the Li111its ofTolerance: Essays in Honor and Men1ory ofYitzhak Rabin (2000), Challenges to De111ocracy: Essays in Honour and Me1nory ofIsaiah Berlin (2000), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the Zlst Century (2000) and Moral Dile1111nas in Medicine (2001, Hebrew). Cecily Devereux is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta, specializing in English-Canadian women's writing of the late-nineteenth and early- twentieth centuries , with reference, particularly, to questions of gender and imperialism. Recent work on the "New Wo1nan" in the white settler context has appeared in Wo1ne11".5 Studies International Fonun (1999), and on the ways English-Canadian imperial politics inform Tennyson's "To the Queen" in Victoria11 Poetry (1998). New publications - on the rise of the idea of the "white slave," and on the politics of imperial motherhood in the fiction of Nellie L. McClung and L.M. Montgomeryare forthcoming in The Victorian Review (2001) and Canadian Children's Literature (2001). Matthew Hayday is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. He is currently writing his thesis on the Official Languages in Education Program. Greg Marquis is interested in the social history of crime, law enforcement and the criminal justice syste111. His work has been published in Acadiensis, tile University of New Brunswick Lalv foun1al, Urban History Review and Crinzinal Justice History. One of his recent publications focuses on the impact of the American Civil War in Canada (Jn Annageddon's Shadow, 1998). His current research is on twentieth-century alcohol policy in Canada.. He teaches courses in Canadian history. Robert M. Seiler is an associate professor in the Communications Studies progran1n1e in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. His teaching and research interests include Media and Cultural Studies, with a focus on the social construction of meaning. Volume 36 • No. 1 • (Printemps 2001 Spring) Journal of Canadian Studies • Revue d'etudes canadiennes Tamara Palmer Seiler is an associate professor in the Canadian Studies programme in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Her teaching and research interests include race and ethnic relations, cultural representation and Alberta history. Peter J. Smith is a professor of political science at Athabasca University. He is the co-editor (with Janet Ajzenstat) of Canada's Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican? and has published a variety of articles on Canadian political thought, public policy and political economy. He is currently engaged in a project on the impact of globalization and the information society on citizenship and politics. Elizabeth Smythe is an associate professor of political science at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. She has published articles on Canadian investment policy, the Multilateral Agree1nent on Investment and the negotiations of investment rules at the World Trade Organization. Her current research examines the use of new technology by non-governmental organizations involved in the transnational anti-globalization movement and its impact on trade policy-making. 203 ...