CHRIS CASSIDY is a freelance writer living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She earned a Master’s degree in archaeology from the University of Reading (UK). Her studies have focused on evolutionary theory, human behaviour, and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition.

PAUL CHAFE is about to defend his PhD thesis on Newfoundland literature. He teaches English at Ryerson University.

J.T.H. CONNOR is John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and is a Professor of History, Memorial University. He has published widely on medical history in Victorian and twentieth-century North America.

LINDA CULLUM teaches Sociology and Women’s Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the author of Narratives At Work: Women, Men, Unionization and the Fashioning of Identities.

FEVRONIA NOVAC is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. She has a PhD in French literature from the University of Ottawa, works and lives in Paris, France, and is the author of numerous literary essays and reviews.

CRAIG T. PALMER earned his PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 1988 from Arizona State University. His research has focused on evolutionary explanations of human behavior. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

CHESLEY W. SANGER is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His interest in marine mammal exploitation industries includes the environmental footings of Arctic bowhead whaling, the Scottish Northern whale fishery, eastern Canadian sealing, and twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador.

BEN WOLFF earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri in 2006 and a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Nebraska in 2008.