Past Advisory Board members, 2011 to 2025:

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.

 

Current Advisory Board members, 2026-2029: 

 

Alexandre Brassard, Université de Saint-Boniface

Alexandre served two consecutive terms (2016–2026) as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Université de Saint-Boniface, a position in which he spearheaded, among other initiatives, substantial reforms to the undergraduate and graduate curricula in Canadian Studies. He now looks forward to returning to research and teaching in his capacity as Associate Professor of Political Science. His scholarly interests include Canadian and intergovernmental politics, the Canadian Francophonie, research methodology, eco-activism campaigns, and field mycology. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.

 

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

Victoria Castillo is a Chilean-Canadian Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yukon University. Her research and teaching focus on historical archaeology, archaeological methods, food security, and the anthropology of gender and art. She is the co-author (with Christine Schreyer and Tosh Southwick) of ECHO: Ethnographic, Cultural and Historical Overview of Yukon's First Peoples (2020) and recently published "Calling Moose: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Example of Northern Tutchone Scapulimancy from Fort Selkirk, Yukon" in the journal Ethnohistory. She is a member of Yukon University's Food Research Group (FRG), which focuses on food security research in the Yukon. Her current research also focuses on women muralists and their careers.

 

Holly Everett, Memorial University

Holly Everett is an associate professor in the department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her research interests include material culture, music, popular culture, and tourism. She has served on the executive boards of the Canadian chapter of the International Society for the Study of Popular Music and the Folklore Studies Association of Canada | Association canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore. Her work has been published in CuiZine: the Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, Ethnologies, The Journal of American Folklore, and MUSICultures (Canadian Society for Traditional Music), among others. Her research in Newfoundland and Labrador centres on music and foodways in the context of tourism. 

 

Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire, University of British Columbia

Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire specializes in French and Francophone literatures from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the representation of space and catastrophe in narratives. He has obtained an M.A. in French literature from the Université de Montréal, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. His first monograph, Le Récit architecte : cinq aspects de l’espace, offers new tools to parse the creation of fictional environments through the particular means of storytelling.
His current book project explores the resurgence of the poetics of ruin in contemporary novels. It aims to expand the scope of the motif to account for numerous forms of contagion between collapsing spaces, bodies, societies, history.
Dr. Gélinas-Lemaire is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.

 

Renée Hulan, Saint Mary's University

Dr. Renée Hulan is the author of Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic (Palgrave 2018), Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains (Palgrave, 2014) and Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture (McGill-Queens, 2002).  She served as President of the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes (2018-2020) and was co-editor Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes with Donald Wright (2005-2008).  In support of Indigenous literary studies, she edited Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (ECW, 1999), and with Renate Eigenbrod, Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (Fernwood, 2008).  In 2020-2021, she was the Craig Dobbin Professor at the University College Dublin.

 

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

Roberta Lexier is Professor in the Department of General Education and Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, left politics, and gender. Trained as a historian, she has published on student movements, feminism and women’s movements, Indigenous movements, economic movements, environmental movements, and the counterculture. Her book, Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today, was published in 2026 by Palgrave Macmillan and her current project is a political biography of the Lewis family. 

 

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).

 

Ayla Morland, University of Toronto

Ayla Morland is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, where she is pursuing a collaborative specialization in Book History and Print Culture. Her research focuses on histories of reading, feminist book history, and archival studies. With this interdisciplinary approach, she examines the everyday academic practices of feminist scholars, including reading and teaching, by studying their personal archives. Her dissertation goes behind the scenes of these scholars’ work to reveal and highlight their intellectual labour as feminism in practice. Her doctoral research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and funding from the Faculty of Information.

 

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

Christl Verduyn is Professor Emeritus of English and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. She has served the field of Canadian Studies in a variety of academic and administrative capacities over the years and is a recipient of the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.  Her research and teaching focus on Canadian and Québécoise literatures and Canadian Studies, and she has authored, edited, or co-edited numerous publications in these areas, most recently Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists (2023). A Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of the Order of Canada, she is also a National Teaching Fellow.