About
About
Steering Committee
Contributing Editors
Editorial Board
French Information
About
ActiveHistory.ca is a new website to help connect historians with the public, policy makers and the media. This is an effort to facilitate and disseminate the ideas developed at the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008.
We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s lives; history that makes an intervention and is transformative to both practitioners and communities. We seek a practice of history that emphasizes collegiality, builds community among active historians and other members of communities, and recognizes the public responsibilities of the historian.
We are looking at the British History & Policy Website as a model for this project.
We are still looking for people to join our editorial board and our database. Please contact us at info (at) activehistory.ca if you are willing to support the project or consider submitting a paper.
A French website, HistoireEngagee.ca, is under construction.
Steering Committee
A group of graduate students at York University are currently working on building activehistory.ca:
- Ian Milligan is a third-year PhD student in Canadian history at York University. For his dissertation, he is studying the relationship between the New Left, Youth, and Labour in the 1960s and early 1970s. Ian is also a Book Review Editor with Left History, a peer-reviewed academic journal published out of the history department at York University.
- Christine McLaughlin is in her third year of the PhD program in history at York University. She is interested in the contested meanings and experiences of community, family and work. Her dissertation explores these themes as they played out in twentieth-century Oshawa, Ontario.
- Jason Young is a fourth-year PhD student in history at York University.
He is interested in the relationships between technology, environments, and
cities. Jay is currently exploring these connections as he works on his
dissertation, entitled “Searching for a Better Way: Subway Life and Urban
Growth in Toronto, 1942-1980”. - Jim Clifford is a fifth-year PhD student in history at York University. He is interested in the social and environmental consequences of rapid urbanisation in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Jim’s dissertation is entitled “Suburban and Industrial Growth in the Lower Lea River Valley: An Environmental History of West Ham from 1855 to 1935.”
- Thomas Peace is a fifth-year PhD student in history at York University. He is interested in the social and cultural dynamics of community, relationships between peoples with radically different experiences, and connections between geography, environment and community. Tom’s PhD research is focused on the impact and experiences of the fall of New France on Aboriginal communities in Quebec and Acadia. He can be reached at tpeace [at] yorku.ca.
Contributing Editors
- Adam Crymble is the web editor for the Network in Canadian History & Environment and writes a monthly column for Active History.
- Teresa Iacobelli is a recent graduate of PhD program in History at the University of Western Ontario
- Krista McCracken is a graduate of the Public History program at the University of Western Ontario.
- David Webster, Associate Professor, University of Regina
Editorial Board
We are currently developing our editorial board and we are looking for people from a broad range of backgrounds. The following people have agreed to join the editorial board:
- Gene Allen, School of Journalism, Ryerson University
- Dimitry Anastakis, Canadian Studies, Trent University
- Colin Coates, Canadian Studies, Glendon College, York University
- Adam Chapnick, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College
- Victoria Freeman, University of Toronto
- Craig Heron, History Department, York University
- Rhonda L. Hinther, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Keith Jamieson, Cultural Consultant, Mohawk of the Grand River Six Nations and Wilfried Laurier University
- Sean Kheraj, SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.
- Andrew McCann, Local Food Activist, Kingston
- Ian McKay, History Department, Queen’s University
- Alice Nash, History Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Geoffrey Reaume, Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto and Critical Disabilities Studies Program, York University
- Ruth Sandwell, OISE, University of Toronto
- Marlene Shore, History Department, York University
- Rob Wardhaugh, History Department, University of Western Ontario
ActiveHistory.ca est un nouveau site Internet cherchant à rapprocher les historiens du public, des décideurs politiques et des médias. Nous ambitionnons de favoriser la diffusion des idées développées lors du colloque «L’histoire engagée: une histoire porteuse d’avenir», qui a eu lieu au Collège Glendon en septembre 2008. Ce projet de site Internet est actuellement mené par un groupe d’étudiants doctorants du département d’histoire de l’Université York. Au cours des prochains mois, nous espérons recruter de nouveaux membres aux comités de direction et de rédaction. Vous n’avez qu’à nous contacter si vous souhaitez jouer un rôle plus actif dans ce projet: info@activehistory.ca.
L’histoire engagée est l’histoire qui est à l’écoute des communautés et qui est réceptive envers elles; une histoire intervenante pouvant transformer à la fois les historiens et les communautés. Nous plaidons pour une pratique de l’histoire collégiale, participant à la vie communautaire et reconnaissant les responsabilités publiques de l’historien.
Notre site s’inspire plus directement du site Internet britannique History & Policy.
Nous encourageons les historiens à s’inscrire à notre base de données et à soumettre des essais.
Notre site Internet sera appelé à se bonifier avec le temps. Un site partenaire francophone devrait voir le jour dans les prochains mois: HistoireEngagee.ca.
