Current Executive/Membres de l’exécutif

Le CCHFG tient chaque année une Assemblée Générale, dans le cadre du Congrès des Sociétés savantes. Cette assemblée élit alors les membres de l’Exécutif, composé d’une présidente, vice-présidente et rédactrice du Bulletin du CCHFG, de cinq représentantes régionales (provinces de l’Atlantique, Québec, Ontario, Prairies et Colombie-Britannique) et d’une Agente de liaison, chargée de maintenir des contacts avec la Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes et avec d’autres groupes internationaux similaires. L’Exécutif comprend aussi deux représentantes étudiantes, qui sont élues annuellement par le CCHFG et dont l’election est subjet à l’approbation du comité des étudiantes-e-s diplômé-e-s de la Société historique du Canada, ainsi qu’une secrétaire-trésorière, nommée par la vice-présidente.

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The CCWGH holds an Annual General Meeting during the annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Members of the Executive are then elected. The Executive consists of the Chair, Associate Chair/CCWGH Newsletter Editor, English-language Secretary, French-language Secretary, Treasurer (appointed by the Associate Chair), Webmaster, five Regional Representatives (Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and British Columbia, NWT, and Yukon), an Independent Scholars Representative, an International Federation for Research in Women’s History Representative. The Executive also includes two student representatives, who are elected annually by the CCWGH and subject to the approval of the CHA Graduate Students’ Committee.

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Co-Chair/Présidente : Jane Nicholas, University of Waterloo

Jane Nicholas is a professor of History at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo and an historian of gender and the modern body. She is the author of The Modern Girl (University of Toronto Press) and Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body (University of Toronto Press) and the co-editor of two volumes of essays, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (University of Toronto Press) with Patrizia Gentile and Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education (Wilfrid Laurier University) with Tracy Penny Light and Renee Bondy. Her research has also been published in numerous journals and edited collections, including the Journal of Social History, the Canadian Historical Review, and Histoire sociale/Social History. Her research has been recognized through several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Her current SSHRC-funded project studies infanticide in the long nineteenth century. A recent collaboration with Nora Jaffary includes the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Social History on Infanticide in the Americas (expected Fall 2025).

 

Vice-Chair/Vice-Présidente: Sarah Glassford, University of Windsor

Sarah Glassford is the Archivist lead for community collections and teaching and learning, at the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library Archives & Special Collections. She is also a social historian of modern Canada with an interest in women, children, wartime, health, and humanitarian aid; in her first career she taught History at the universities of Ottawa, Carleton, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of
the Canadian Red Cross (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and the co-editor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War (UBC Press) and Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (UBC Press), both with Amy J. Shaw. She has received SSHRC funding for both her historical research and her archival outreach initiatives, and was a 2009
winner of the CCWGH’s Hilda Neatby article prize. She is currently engaged in several community partnerships to develop and highlight the archival record of Francophone, Black, and Queer communities in Windsor/Essex.

 

English-Language Secretary: Willeen Keough

Willeen G. Keough is a Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include gender, ethnicity, immigration, oral history, communal memory, embodiment, and affect, and she has written and published extensively in these areas in relation to Newfoundland. Her current work explores conflicting articulations of masculinity during the Newfoundland seal hunt and related animal rights/welfare protests of the 1960s–1990s. She was very grateful to receive the CCWGH Hilda Neatby Prize for best English-language article on women’s and gender history in 2022 for her article “Newfoundland Landsmen Sealing: Interrogating the Limits of Ecomasculinity in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries”; Acadiensis 50, 2 (Autumn 2021): 155-183.

 

French-Language Secretary/Langue française secrétaire: Melanie Morin-Pelletier

Dr. Melanie Morin-Pelletier is the Historian, War and Society at the Canadian War Museum. She has curated the major exhibitions: Fighting in Flanders, Home Front 1917, Vimy: Beyond the Battle, Armour and co-curated Lost Liberties: The War Measures Act. She is the author of Briser les ailes de l’ange: Les infirmières militaires canadiennes (1914-1918) and has published multiple articles on women and war and on the home front.

 

Treasurer/Trésorier: Dominique Clément, University of Alberta

Dominique Clément is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (CNSAS). He is the author of Canada’s Rights Revolution, Equality Deferred, Human Rights in Canada and Debating Rights Inflation. Clément has been a Visiting Scholar in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, China and the United Kingdom. His websites, HistoryOfRights.ca and statefunding.ca, serve as research and teaching portals on the history of human rights and social movements in Canada.

Dominique Clément est professeur au département de sociologie de l’Université de l’Alberta et membre de la Société royale du Canada (CNSAS). Il est l’auteur de Canada’s Rights Revolution, Equality Deferred, Human Rights in Canada and Debating Rights Inflation. Clément a été chercheur invité en Australie, Belgique, Irelande, en Chine et au Royaume-Uni. Ses sites Web, HistoryOfRights.ca et statefunding.ca servent de portails de recherche et d’enseignement sur l’histoire des droits de la personne et les mouvements sociaux au Canada

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women Representative/Agente de liaison, Institut canadien de recherches sur les femmes: Catherine Carstairs

International Federation for Research in Women’s History Representative/Agente de liaison, International Federation for Research in Women’s History: Julia Smith, University of Manitoba

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Representatives

Graduate Student Representatives/Représentantes des étudiantes aux cycles supérieurs: Karen Brglez & Megan Blair

 

Prairie Representative/Représentante des Prairies: Erin Millions

Dr. Erin Millions (she/her) is a settler historian whose research centers Indigenous children and families to explore histories of Indigenous education and health in 19^th– and 20^th-century Canada and the larger British Empire. Her work includes translating these histories to public and Indigenous community audiences through community-engaged projects including the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project, the Welcoming Winnipeg Initiative, Canadian Geographic Paths to Reconciliation website, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and the BBC. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.

 

Atlantic Representative/Représentante de l’Atlantique: Hannah Lane, Mount Allison University

Interdisciplinary Historians Representative/Représentante des historiennes interdisciplinaires: Lara Campbell

Public History Representative/Représentante de l’histoire publique: TBC

Independent Scholars’ Representative/Représentante des chercheuses indépendantes: Alison Norman

 

BC, Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut Representative/Représentante de Colombie-Britannique, Yukon, TNW, et Nunavut: Maddie Knickerbocker

Dr. Madeline Knickerbocker (she/her) is a white settler historian whose community-engaged archival and oral history research focuses on Indigenous sovereignty, activism, and gender in Western Canada in the 20th century. She is a faculty member in History at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

 

 

 

 

 

Ontario Representative/Représentante de l’Ontario: Kirsta Barclay

Krista Barclay (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She grew up in rural southern Ontario (Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Territory) and is a settler historian with a background in the cultural heritage sector. Her research focuses on histories of families, colonialism, and public memory in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 

 

 

 

Quebec Representative/Représentante du Québec: Camille Robert

Camille Robert est doctorante et chargée de cours en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Son projet de thèse propose une histoire du tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois à partir des points de vue de travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé ayant participé aux grèves du secteur public des années 1980. Son mémoire de maîtrise, qui portait sur les mobilisations des féministes québécoises pour la reconnaissance du travail ménager, a été publié sous forme de livre aux Éditions Somme toute en 2017. Elle a également codirigé, avec la chercheuse Louise Toupin, un ouvrage collectif sur le travail invisible des femmes, paru aux Éditions du remue-ménage en 2018. Soucieuse de contribuer à la révision des récits dominants et à la diffusion de l’histoire, elle est membre du comité éditorial d’HistoireEngagée.ca et collabore avec plusieurs médias et organismes.

Camille Robert is a PhD candidate and lecturer in history at Université du Québec à Montréal. Her thesis project offers a history of the neoliberal turn taken by the Québec state from the points of view of education and healthcare workers who took part in the public sector strikes of the 1980s. Her master’s thesis, which focused on Québec feminists’ fight for the recognition of housework as work, was published by Éditions Somme toute in 2017. With Louise Toupin, she also co-edited an edited collection on women’s invisible work, published by Éditions du remue-ménage in 2018. Committed to contributing to rethinking dominant historical narratives and to engaging with the public, she regularly works with a number of media outlets and community organizations, and is a member of the editorial committee at HistoireEngagée.ca.