The Underhill Review

Fall 2008

Kerry Abel is a pioneering scholar in Northern and Native Studies in Canada and author of Changing Places: History, Community, and Identity in Northeastern Ontario (Montreal and Kingston: McGill–Queen`s University Press, 2006) and Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History (McGill–Queen`s University Press, 1993).

Laura Brandon is Adjunct Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, and author of Art or Memorial? The Forgotten History of Canada’s War Art (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006), Art and War (I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2007), and Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist (Montreal and Kingston: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2005).

Kenneth C. Dewar teaches in the Department of History, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, where he specializes in Canadian intellectual history and the political culture of Ontario. He is author of Charles Clarke, Pen and Ink Warrior (Montreal and Kingston: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2002).

Susan–Mary Grant is Professor of American History at Newcastle University, Her research specialty is in the history of American national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is author of The War For a Nation: The American Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2006).

Paul Keen is Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University and author of several studies in the history of books, including The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

 

Duncan McDowall specialises in Canadian business and political history, and is Professor of Canadian History at Carleton University. He is author of The Sum of the Satisfactions: Canada in the Age of National Accounting (Montreal and Kingston: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2008) and The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899–1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,  1988), which won the National Business Book Award.

David E. Nye received the 2005 Leonard da Vinci Medal for his extensive publications on technology and society. His most recent book is Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (MIT, 2006). Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, he has published extensively on technology and American culture, including America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) and Consuming Power: A Cultural History of American Energies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998). He is currently writing a cultural history of electrical blackouts.

E. Lisa Panayotidis is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary and is co–editor (with Paul Stortz) of Historical Identities: The Professoriate in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).

David Tough is Assistant Editor of The Underhill Review and a doctoral candidate in Canadian History at Carleton University.