BC Studies no. 222 Summer 2024

Kristine Alexander teaches in the history department at the University of Lethbridge. Her research focuses on the entwined histories of childhood and colonialism, and her publications include Small Stories of War: Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (MQUP, 2023), A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press, 2017).

Sean Carleton is an associate professor in the departments of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.

Catherine Ellis is an associate professor and settler scholar in the Department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Her historical research focuses on modern Britain, particularly the impact of youth cultures and young voters on British politics. In 2020–21, she co-chaired the Standing Strong Task Force, which addressed the history and legacies of her university’s former namesake, Egerton Ryerson, whose ideas framed Canada’s first public school systems. Ellis is engaged in the implementation of the task force’s recommendations at TMU and recently contributed to the Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations (2023).

Tamara Krawchenko is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. She is an expert in comparative public policy, regional development, and sustainability transitions.

Annabelle Penney recently graduated from McGill with a BA in honours history. She is set to return to McGill in the fall to pursue her MA. Her SHHRC-funded research project “A Crude Awakening: The Effects of the National Energy Program on Alberta Citizens” explores grassroots responses to the NEP and how this served to funnel Albertan citizens into channels of regionalist discontent. Her research interests primarily lie in the social and political histories of the Canadian Prairies. She maintains a commitment to unearthing the often-obscured experiences of women in the Prairies.

Adele Perry is a settler historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada. She has taught at the University of Manitoba since 2000, where she directs the Centre for Human Rights Research.

Jesse Robertson is a historical consultant and doctoral student in history at the University of Victoria. His dissertation examines histories of marine navigation and colonialism in the Pacific Northwest, showing how voyages of exploration, marine charts, and lighthouses transformed the coast by permitting newcomers to transit its waves without Indigenous consent or assistance. Robertson’s professional background has included dozens of oral history, Traditional Knowledge and Land Use, and archival research projects for government, religious groups, legal teams, and Indigenous clients. 

Jeff Shemilt is a graduate of the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Victoria and has held positions in the federal, provincial, and local levels of government. His areas of research include rural and regional policy, community capacity building, and endogenous development.

Mayana Slobodian is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. She is a Ukrainian/Red River Métis guest on lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Her work has been published in the Canadian Historical Review, the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the Guardian.

Bridget Stirling is a PhD candidate in educational policy studies at the University of Alberta. Her doctoral research examines political discourses of childhood in Alberta’s Inspiring Education report and the subsequent period of education reform. She is particularly interested in futurity, nostalgia, and the temporal displacement of childhood.