Past Advisory Board members, 2011 to 2026:

Pierre Anctil, Ian Angus, Satwinder Bains, Raymond Blake, Matt Cavers, Colin Coates, Michèle Dagenais, Yves Frenette, Chad Gaffield, Alain G. Gagnon, Julia Harrison, Jonathan Luedee, Andrew Potter, Jeff Ruhl, Gabrielle Slowey, Will Straw, Peter Thompson, Rinaldo Walcott, Donald Wright.

 

Alexandre Brassard, Université de Saint-Boniface

 

Claire Campbell, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania

Claire Campbell is a professor of environmental history at Bucknell University who teaches courses in subjects ranging from early Americas to historical cartography to cityscapes. She fell in love with Canadian Studies when it took her to Denmark to teach about Canada, and now it's a means of connection from middle America. Her publications include Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in the Georgian Bay (2005); Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada (2017); and Cities by the Sea: Urban Coastlines in Atlantic Canada (2026). 

 

Victoria Castillo, Yukon University

 

Holly Everett, Memorial University

 

Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire, University of British Columbia

 

Renée Hulan, Saint Mary's University

 

Lianne Leddy, Wilfrid Laurier University

Lianne Leddy (Anishinaabekwe) is an associate professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her award-winning book, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2022. Leddy's work has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, Oral History Forum, Historical Methods, and NAIS, as well as several edited collections.

Roberta Lexier, Mount Royal University

 

Alan MacEachern, Western University

Alan MacEachern is Professor of History at Western University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The founding director of NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment, he has devoted his career to the teaching, research, and writing of environmental history in Canada. He is the author most recently of Becoming Green Gables (2024), The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island (with Edward MacDonald, 2022), and The Miramichi Fire: A History (2020).

 

Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University

Andrew Nurse is Associate Professor of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University where he teaches courses on landscape, public history, and political economy. He is a member of the CHA’s Teaching and Learning Committee and is involved in research into issues related to student success in higher education. He serves on the board of Acadiensis and is a former Associate Editor of The Journal of Canadian Studies. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Dimension, Acadiensis, and The Conversation.  His published work also includes the edited collections (with Mike Fox) Dynamics and Trajectories: Canada and/in North American.

 

Michael Poplyansky, University of Regina

Michael Poplyansky is an associate professor at La Cité universitaire francophone  (University of Regina). He is the author of several books dealing with the Canadian francophonie,  notably Le Parti acadien et la quête d’un paradis perdu (Septentrion, 2018; France-Acadie Prize 2020) and Tommy Douglas: Un grand Canadian (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2026). He also wrote “In Search for Common Ground: Canadian Studies in Contemporary Russia” , which appeared in the International Journal of Canadian Studies (2023), and translated Yury Akimov’s monograph La colonisation de l’Amérique du Nord et de la Sibérie : une étude comparative (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2026; Pierre Savard Prize for the best book in Canadian studies published in a foreign language, 2011).

 

Jason Russell, Empire State University, New York

Jason Russell, Ph.D. is a historian and Professor of Work and Labour Studies at Empire State University (SUNY) in New York State.  He is the author of six books including Canada, A Working History (Dundurn Press, 2021), which describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day.  His other books include Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950 to 1990 (Athabasca University Press 2011), Making Mangers in Canada, 1945 – 1995: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities (Routledge 2018), and Leading Progress: The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, 1920 – 2020 (Between the Lines 2020).  Russell has also published in leading history journals, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Canadian Studies (University of Toronto Press).  His current research interests include examining the social history of retirement, and the development of labour and management in the United States and Canada since the 1940s. 

 

Annie Tanguay, Université de Montréal

Since 2020, Annie Tanguay is the scientific and administrative coordinator of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture au Québec (CRILCQ) at the Université de Montreal. From 2016 to 2019, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UQAM on the writing practices of Anne Hébert and Louise Dupré. Winner of the 2018 Anne-Hébert Academic Award for her doctoral dissertation (Université de Sherbrooke, 2015), she has published several articles and prepared the critical edition of the short story collection Le torrent and plays from the period 1945 to 1967, which appeared in the fifth volume of the Œuvres complètes of Anne Hébert (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2015). She is co-curator of the virtual exhibition “François Hébert : les collages” (2026).

Christl Verduyn, Mount Allison University