Canadian Studies Network

CSN-REC Board of Directors

Our new President is Dr. Colin Coates. Dr. Coates teaches in the Canadian Studies program at Glendon College, York University and is director of Landscapes project with NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment).  He is the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes and winner of the Lionel Groulx-Yves Saint-Germain Foundation’s award for Heroines and History – Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (co-authored with Cecilia Morgan of the University of Toronto). Professor Coates’ research projects include utopian settlements in Canadian history, the political culture of New France and the place of commons in the environmental history of early Quebec. He will hold the position of President until November 2012.

Le president sera Dr Colin Coates.  Dr Coates est membre du programme d’études canadiennes au Collège universitaire Glendon de l’Université York.  Il est aussi directeur du projet sur les paysages dans NiCHE (Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement).  Il détient la Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur les paysages culturels canadiens.  Son livre Heroines and History : Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (écrit avec Cecilia Morgan de l’University of Toronto) a mérité le prix Lionel Groulx-Fondation Yves Saint-Germain.  Ses recherches portent sur les utopies dans l’histoire canadienne, la culture politique en Nouvelle-France et le rôle des communes dans l’histoire environnementale du Québec ancien.  Dr Coates comblera la fonction de président jusqu’en novembre 2012.

Dr. Andrew Nurse will take on the role of Vice-president. Dr. Nurse is the Coordinator of the Academic Programme in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. He currently holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of History and Canadian Studies, where he teaches a range of courses on Canadian culture and political economy. He is working on a history of the Movement for Citizens Voice and Action, which is a case study into the history of Canadian participatory democracy. Along with his colleague Dr. Mike Fox (Geography, Mount Allison University), he is editing the second in the Centre for Canadian Studies' Alternatives publication series, entitled Dynamics and Trajectories: Canada and/in North America (forthcoming 2011). Dr. Nurse will hold the position of Vice-president until November 2013.

Our new Secretary/Treasurer is Dr. Julia Harrison. Dr. Harrison is currently the director of the Frost Center for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She teaches and conducts research on the nature of the tourist interaction and experience; and most recently on Ontario cottage culture. Other research interests include the politics of representation of Canadian Aboriginal cultures in museums; the history of Canadian anthropology; and the culture of non-profit institutions.  Her book Being a Tourist (UBC Press) was published in 2003; in 2006 she co-edited volume (with Regna Darnell, UWO) Historicizing Canadian Anthropology (UBC Press). She has published in a range of museum, tourism and anthropology journals including Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Museum Anthropology, International Sociology, and Journal of Applied Behavioural Science.  Dr. Harrison will hold the position of Sec./Treasurer until November 2012.

Dr. Christl Verduyn will fill the role of ICCS Liaison. Dr. Verduyn holds the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University and is also the Director of Mount Allison’s Centre of Canadian Studies for 2010-2015. Her research interests include Canadian and Québécois literatures; women’s writing and criticism; multiculturalism and minority writing; life writing and archival approaches to literature; and the interdisciplinary field of Canadian studies. She has published several books, most recently, Marian and the Major: Engel’s Elizabeth and the Golden City (McGill-Queen’s UP. 2010), along with special issues of journals, articles, and reviews. She is the 2006 recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies, awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies. Dr. Verduyn will hold the position of ICCS Liaison until November 2013.

Our Graduate Student Representative is Meaghan Beaton. She is a PhD Candidate in the Trent-Carleton joint PhD program in Canadian Studies. Her dissertation explores Nova Scotia's experience during Canada's 1967 centennial celebrations focusing on issues of commemoration, public history, identity and the development of state cultural policy. She holds an MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from Saint Mary's University and an L.L.B. from Dalhousie University.  Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Meaghan worked as a lawyer in Halifax specializing in the areas of First Nations land claims, human rights, and corporate law.  She has published articles in Acadiensis and the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal.