Contributors / Collaborateurs

SHARON MYERS is a member of the Department of History at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she teaches Canadian histories and historical methods. HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD is an associate professor at the University of Vermont. He is working on a book about slavery in Maritime Canada. BARRY CAHILL is an independent scholar in Halifax. He is working on a biography of Nova Scotia’s first woman lawyer, Frances Fish (a New Brunswicker). GAIL G. CAMPBELL is a professor of history at the University of New Brunswick. Her longstanding research interest in the public career of Senator Muriel McQueen Fergusson began with their first meeting, in 1983. JOHN G. REID is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University.  He has published extensively on northeastern North America in the early modern era and is the author of Nova Scotia: A Pocket History (Black Point, NS: Fernwood, 2009). SASHA MULLALLY is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Brunswick, where she teaches Canadian history, women’s history, and courses in the contemporary history of medicine and health.  Her research investigates the social transformation of rural medicine and health care practices in early-20th-century Canada and the United States. ALISON NORMAN is completing her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines women’s social and political activism, 1900-39, at Six Nations of Grand River, Ontario. GRAEME WYNN is a historical geographer and environmental historian at the University of British Columbia, where he has been successively associate dean of arts and head of the Department of Geography for 16 of the last 20 years. His first publication in this journal was in the 1970s; with this review article, his eleventh contribution to these pages, he can now claim to have published in Acadiensis in each of the last five decades. He is also the general editor of the Nature | History | Society series of monographs published by UBC Press and currently serves as editor of BC Studies and co-editor of the Journal of Historical Geography. PAUL LITT teaches history and Canadian studies at Carleton University. His most recent publication is “Trudeaumania: Participatory Democracy in the Mass-Mediated Nation,” Canadian Historical Review 89, no. 1 (March 2008): 27-53. DONALD WRIGHT is in the Department of Political Science at UNB, where he teaches a course called “Trudeau’s Canada.” THOMAS CHENEY is currently completing a joint honours undergraduate degree in political science and history at the University of New Brunswick. DARRELL VARGA is Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies at NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design). He is the editor of Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008); co-editor of Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006); and the series editor for Cinemas Off Centre, University of Calgary Press. GEOFFREY PLANK is a professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.   He is the author of An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), and he collaborated with John Reid and four other historians on The ‘Conquest’ of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial and Aboriginal Constructions (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).