Active History Editorial Collective
Jim Clifford is an Associate Professor of environmental history with the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. His current research explores the environmental and economic histories of the global commodities that supplied industries in the Thames Estuary during the 19th century. For more information, visit jimclifford.ca. He can be reached at jim.clifford@usask.ca.
Edward Dunsworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. Previous research projects focused on migrant farm labour in Canada. His current research examines immigration politics and the origins of the welfare state in interwar Canada. He can be reached at edward.dunsworth@mcgill.ca.
Laura Madokoro is a historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, located on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. In addition to her work with Active History, she is a member of the editorial collective for Refugee History and co-director of the journal Histoire Sociale / Social History. Laurais the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War and, most recently, Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity and Resistance in a North American City and numerous scholarly articles and op-eds on histories of migration, race, and refuge. She can be reached at laura.madokoro@carleton.ca.
Thomas Peace is an Associate Professor of History at Huron University College and co-director of the Huron Community History Centre. He is the author of The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790 and an editor of Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute and From Huronia to Wendakes. In addition to serving as an editor at ActiveHistory.ca he also has a weekly history column on CBC London’s Afternoon Drive.
Mack Penner is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on intellectual and political histories from the far-left to the far-right in Canada, as well as the history of capitalism, energy politics, and the history of Alberta. You can read his work at mackpenner.com and you can reach him at pennermack@gmail.com.
Sara Wilmshurst (she/her) has been on the Active History editorial collective since 2022. She co-authored the 2018 monograph Be Wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns and has published on tobacco, sex ed, and cookbooks. She is a student in the Tri-University History PhD Program (based at University of Guelph) studying health and colonialism.
Contributing Editors
Sean Carleton is a settler historian and associate professor in the department of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research looks at the history and political economy of schooling and settler capitalism in Canada. He is also a co-founder of the Graphic History Collective.
Sean Graham is the producer and host of the History Slam podcast. He is a historian of North American broadcasting with a PhD from the University of Ottawa. He is an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and the Education Coordinator for the Vimy Foundation’s immersive programs. He can be reached at theseangraham@gmail.com.
Andrew Nurse lives in Sackville, New Brunswick with his wife Mary Ellen. He is Associate Professor of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University where he teaches courses on landscape, public history, and political economy. He is a member of the CHA’s Teaching and Learning Committee and serves on the board of Acadiensis. He recent work has appeared in Canadian Dimension, Acadiensis, and The Conversation.
Active History Fellows at McGill University
Katie Carson (Fellow) is an Active History Fellow and PhD student at McGill University whose current research focuses on the intersection of transnational labour solidarities and human rights activism in the postwar period. She has previously conducted oral histories and archival research on transnational activism during the 1970 October Crisis and can be reached at kathryn.carson@mail.mcgill.ca
Areej Syed Naqvi (Fellow) is a PhD student at McGill University. Her research focuses on oral histories with South Asian Canadian women and how they form community connections with one another through cultural expressions, like food, dance, and cultural outfits. She can be reached at areej-e-zehra.syednaqvi@mail.mcgill.ca
Raffaella Cerenzia (Junior Fellow) is a fourth-year history undergraduate at McGill University. Her primary research interest is the American Revolution, but she has done extensive research on interwar Quebec as well. Her work on socialism at McGill in the 1930s has appeared on Active History. She can be reached at raffaella.cerenzia@mail.mcgill.ca.
Zakary Hartley-Dawson (Junior Fellow) is a first-year history Master’s student at McGill University. His research looks at the participation of Russian and Jewish anarchists in the Canadian Worker’s Revolt of 1917-1925. His project will focus on the labour organising of the Union of Russian Workers and the Worker’s Circle in Montreal.
Sarah Kittilsen (Junior Fellow) is a Masters of Arts student working under the supervision of Edward Dunsworth and Jodey Nurse. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from McGill University in 2024. Raised on a honeybee farm in Nova Scotia, Sarah is interested in rural society and its transformations. Her thesis project, entitled “4-H in Nova Scotia, 1922-1982,” examines the relationship between 4-H and modernity in Nova Scotia.
Annabelle Penney (Junior Fellow) is a Master’s student at McGill University. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on grassroots political responses to the National Energy Program in Alberta, though she loves any history even tangentially related to the Canadian Prairies. Her article “Rhythm of Resistance: The Life and Legacy of Unsung Black Canadian Jazz Legend Eleanor Collins” has appeared in BC Studies Summer 2024 issue.
Site Manager
Alex Gagné is a sessional instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University and McMaster University. His research focuses on the history of childhood and youth in 19th and 20th century Canada, as well as the history of alcohol, immigration, and the British Empire. You can reach him at alexgagne1@gmail.com
Social Media Coordinator
Sofia O’Reilly is the social media coordinator for Active History. She recently graduated from McGill University with a BA in History. Her current project is designing a physical exhibition for the digital exhibit The Human Cost of Food. She also works as a Project Manager for the Indian Ocean World Center (IOWC) and is serving as a fellow on Active History’s McGill editorial team.
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