1 MEAGHAN BEATON is the W. P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. Meaghan completed her PhD in Canadian Studies at Trent University. Her dissertation explored how Canada’s 1967 centennial was celebrated in Nova Scotia, through an examination of local cultural projects undertaken throughout the province.
2 FABIEN BELLAT est docteur en Histoire de l’art de l’Université Paris X Nanterre, chercheur associé à l’École d’architecture de Versailles, et professeur associé à l’Université d’État de Togliatti (Russie). Ses recherches se centrent surtout sur l’architecture soviétique, notamment sur l’urbanisme et les jardins en URSS. Il fut aussi chargé de cours à l’Université de Nantes et au Canada, à l’Université du Québec en Outaouais. Il a participé au comité scientifique de l’exposition Le Nôtre en perspective au Château de Versailles, et, au titre de commissaire, organise actuellement une exposition sur la ville neuve de Togliatti, événement qui sera présenté à Togliatti, Paris et Moscou.
3 MARY BOUQUET (PhD Cambridge) is a Fellow of University College Utrecht. She has researched historical collections and curated exhibitions in Lisbon (Melanesian Artefacts, 1988, Museu de Etnologia), Leiden (Pithecanthropus, 1993, National Museum of Natural History) and Oslo (1996, University Ethnographic Museum). She has published many articles and several books, including Museums: A Visual Anthropology(2012) and “Heritage” (Museum Worlds, 2013). She is co-editor of the Berghahn Series Museums and Collections.
4 MARK DE SOCIO is Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland. His research interests are primarily economic geography, geographies of tourism and economic development, and social network analysis. You can email him at mxdesocio@ salisbury.edu.
5 VINCENT FOURNIER est professeur au Département de communication sociale et publique de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Anthropologue, il a effectué des recherches sur la production et la commercialisation du vin en Calabre (Italie) dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Il travaille actuellement à la publication d’un livre critiquant certains effets négatifs—économiques, politiques et culturels—des réglementations entourant la production et la commercialisation des produits du terroir. Il s’intéresse également à l’étude anthropologique de la consommation, des amateurs de vin, ainsi que de l’utilisation des savoirs scientifiques par les publicitaires.
6 MEGHANN JACK is a PhD candidate in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the built agricultural landscape of one small region of Nova Scotia. She is interested in all aspects of material culture research, especially vernacular architecture, landscapes and museums.
7 DALE JARVIS is the Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He holds a BSc in Anthropology/Archaeology from Trent University and an MA in Folklore from Memorial University. He has contributed as a board member and volunteer to many local arts and heritage organizations. He regularly teaches workshops on oral history, cultural documentation, folklore project management and public folklore.
8 MARGARET KRUESI, PhD, Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania was manuscripts cataloger at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania for nine years, and is folklorist, librarian and cataloguer at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
9 YVES LABERGE détient un doctorat en sociologue et dirige deux collections aux Presses de l’Université Laval. Il est membre du Centr’ERE de l’UQAM et fait partie du comité de six revues: Electronic Green Journal; Journal of Religion and Popular Culture; The European Legacy : Toward New Paradigms; Canadian Review of American Studies; Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication; et Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.
10 LACHLAN MACKINNON is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. He studies deindustrialized landscapes and workers’ experiences of plant closure in Atlantic Canada. His current research focuses on the steel plant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, which closed in 2001.
11 BRADLEY D. MACPHERSON is currently a graduate student in Ryerson University’s Master of Spatial Analysis program in Toronto, Canada. He completed his bachelor’s in Geography and Earth Science at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, in 2013. This article stems from his work as an undergraduate student at Salisbury University. You can email him at bdm391@gmail.com.
12 MICHAEL MALONEY is an independent scholar working in the Fredericton area in the field of Canadian historical studies with a special interest in material culture.
13 MARK J. MCLAUGHLIN recently completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in History at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His dissertation examined the environmental history of New Brunswick’s forestry sector from the Second World War to the early 1980s. His latest research interests include the science and scientists behind mid-20th century resource management regimes and government comics in Canada.
14 KATE E. MCMAHON received her undergraduate degree in art history and her master’s degree in American and New England studies from the University of Southern Maine. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in history at Howard University in Washington, DC. A native of Maine, her research interests include African American communities in northern New England during the 19th century, as well as the way race, class and gender are represented in material culture.
15 LENORE NEWMAN holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment. She researches Canadian regional cuisines, local food sovereignty, culturally preferred foods and urban market spaces.
16 BRIAN OSBORNE is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. His current research considers symbolic landscapes, monumentalism and performed commemoration as contributors to the construction of social cohesion and national identity. His volume The Rock and the Sword: A History of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kingston (2004) won The Presbyterian Church in Canada’s Melville T. Bailey Prize for Congregational History.
17 AMY PROPEN is a Lecturer of Rhetoric and Composition in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research on visual and material rhetoric, critical cartographies, and rhetoric as advocacy has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly; Journal of Business and Technical Communication; Written Communication; Law, Culture and the Humanities; ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geographies; and the edited collections Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory and Environmental Rhetoric: Ecologies of Place. She is co-author, with Mary Lay Schuster, of Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom: Persuasive Practices in Domestic Violence and Child Protection Cases, and author of Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS.
18 NIKO SILVESTER is a freelance writer who has studied archaeology (BA, University of Calgary, 1995) and folklore (MA, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999). She is interested in many things, but is especially passionate about books, writing and publishing, which has led her to become a traditional bookbinder, printmaker and letterpress printer.
19 CHELSEA ST. ONGE-MAY (MA, American Studies, The George Washington University) studies military history and public policy in the United States. Some military research interests include religion, conscription and conscientious objection; some policy interests are historical preservation, education and French American culture and language.
20 TARA ZANARDI is an Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19-century art history at Hunter College. She has published articles in Dieciocho, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, The Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Fashion Theory. Her book Majismo and the Pictorial Construction of Elite Identity in the Eighteenth Century is forthcoming from Pennsylvania State University Press (2015). She is currently working on a second book-length project, Global Exchange and Tropical Play: Chinería in Spanish Visual and Material Culture, in which she explores the “exotic” 18th-century decorative mode of chinoiserie in the royal palaces of Madrid and Aranjuez. It will be the first in-depth analysis of chinoiserie in Spanish interior design, textiles and decorative arts.