Notes on contributors
- Notes on contributors
IAN BAIRD is a doctoral student in History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, specializing in the religious and spiritual lives of soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the Great War. Building on his Masters research on New Brunswick's Anglican clergy and their successful wartime recruitment efforts, Mr. Baird's doctoral work focuses on the origins of heterodox spiritual beliefs and totemic rituals during and after the Great War as practised by Canadian soldiers and their families facing death and grief.
CLAUDE CHARPENTIER holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. As an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Bishop's University, she teaches applied-psychology courses, with an avid interest in community psychology and participatory action research. Using a variety of designs and methodologies (thematic analysis, programme evaluation, quantitative research, grounded theory, empowerment evaluation, collective-impact studies, needs assessment, cultural-mediation practices) she pursues research questions bearing on intercultural relations, refugee resettlement and retention, social inequality in health, and the social integration of minority communities and vulnerable groups (Quebec anglophones, immigrants/ refugees, socially isolated elderly, the mentally ill).
MYRIAM CHIASSON holds a BA (honours) in psychology from Bishop's University and a doctorate in psychology from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Her BA honours project explored social-psychological issues fuelling reasonable accommodations debates in Quebec. Initially working as a researcher for the Centre collégial d'expertise en gérontologie, she now teaches psychology at Cégep de Drummondville, specialising in communication. Her present research interests focus on psychosomatics, positive psychology and health psychology.
GRAEME GARRARD is Reader in Politics in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK. His most recent book is How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World (2019).
RACHEL KILLICK is Emeritus Professor of the University of Leeds, where she was previously Professor of Québec Studies and Nineteenth-Century French Studies. She was President of BACS (2004–6).
CEDRIC MAY is the pioneer of Québec Studies in the UK, a founder member of the BACS in 1975, and its fourth president (1982–4). In his twenty-five years at the University of Birmingham (1963–88), he established and developed Britain's first Québec Studies courses, receiving the Ordre des francophones d'Amérique from the Québec government's Conseil supérieur de la langue française for his promotion of knowledge of Québec and Québec culture within the UK. His book Breaking the Silence: The Literature of Québec (1981) remains a seminal text for the study of Québécois literature and culture. [End Page 145]
DALE STOUT holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh and is a Full Professor in the Psychology Department at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec. He teaches courses in statistics, history of psychology, and the psychology of death and dying. His approach to scholarship is multidisciplinary and historical, exploring topics in the psychology of intercultural relations, community health and well-being, the culture of statistical practices, and existential meaning at the end of life. He is currently writing a work of historical fiction depicting Descartes's Meditations as an existential pilgrimage.
MICHAEL WIGGINTON is a PhD Student in Political Science at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Originally from Nova Scotia, Michael completed a BA at York University's Glendon College before beginning his graduate studies. Michael's research focuses on political parties and elections, with a particular interest in representation. His doctoral dissertation examines women's participation in major political party nomination contests in Canada. More of Michael's research can be found on his website. [End Page 146]
