Staff

LCMSDS Director / Professor Emeritus Wilfrid Laurier University 

Terry Copp's recent publications include Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe (UTP, 2006) and Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy (UTP, 2003). His Paper "Towards a New Balance Sheet: 21 Army Group in Normandy" published in John Buckley (ed.) Normandy Sixty Years On (Frank Cass, 2006) extends his revisionist approach to military history to the British army in the Second World War. The Canadian Defence Academy commissioned Guy Simonds and the Art of Command for publication in early 2007 and Combat Stress in the 20th Century: The Commonwealth Experience for 2010, coauthored with Mark Humphries. Terry also authored No Price Too High: Canadians and the Second World War which lead to the acclaimed television series No Price Too High where he was the lead military historian.

TEL: 519 884 0710 ex. 3309

FAX: 519 886 5057

tcopp@wlu.ca

Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Military History / Research Director: Naval and Military

Faculty Associate

Roger Sarty became interested in maritime history during his childhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he accompanied his father, a television producer, on research trips for historical documentaries.  After studies at the University of Toronto (BA and PhD) and Duke University (MA), he joined the Directorate of History at National Defence Headquarters in 1981.  He worked as a specialist in maritime aviation during the Second World War on the official history of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and then in 1987 became a founding member of the team established to produce a new operational history of the Royal Canadian Navy.  From 1991 he was Senior Historian at the Directorate, with responsibility for all English-language publications, and in 1998 moved to the Canadian War Museum.  As Deputy Director, in 2000-2003 he headed exhibition and public programming development for the war museum’s new building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa.  In 2004 Dr. Sarty became a professor of military and Canadian history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.  He has authored, co-authored or edited eleven books and monographs, and in addition to CMH also edits The Northern Mariner.

Faculty Associate

WLU Profile

519 884 0710 ex. 2287

rsarty@wlu.ca

Professor of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Research Director: Conflict Analysis at LCMSDS

Faculty Associate

D. Marc Kilgour is Professor of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University and Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at University of Waterloo. At LCMSDS, he holds the position of Research Director: Conflict Analysis. His research crosses many fields, but is usually concerned with optimal decision-making and its consequences. He has built and analyzed mathematical models of strategy in deterrence, escalation, power-sharing, negotiation, voting, arms control, peace operations, and counter-terrorism. He is co-author or co-editor of six books, including Perfect Deterrence (2000) and the Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation (2010).

WLU Profile

TEL: 519 884 0710 ex. 4208

FAX: 519 886 5057

mkilgour@wlu.ca

Communications Director / Managing Editor, Canadian Military History

Mike Bechthold is the managing editor of Canadian Military History and the Communications Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. He teaches military history at Wilfrid Laurier University and has published many articles on the First and Second World War.  He is the co-editor of a collection of essays on the Battle of Vimy Ridge entitled, Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (WLU Press, 2007).

TEL: 519 884 0710 ex. 4594

FAX: 519 886 5057

mbechthold@wlu.ca

Librarian and Archivist 

PhD in Progress "Libraries and Education in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945"

Kathryn Rose hold a Masters of Library and Information Services from the University of Western Ontario (2005) and a Master's Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Waterloo. her dissertation explores the influence of the Second World War on the development of the records management in the federal government, the growth and professionalization of Library and Archives Canada and the relationship between the archival and historical proessions

katherynerose@gmail.com

Publications Manager / Webmaster

519 496 7720

matt.symes@symplicity.ca

symplicity.ca

Accounts Manager/Graduate Student

Jane Whalen is the Accounts Manager at LCMSDS.  In consultation with the Director, Jane oversees the Centre’s operating budget and is responsible for the processing of invoices, travel expenses, meeting expenses, etc.  Financial inquiries from LCMSDS staff, associates, and business partners should be directed to her attention.

PhD in Progress “Wasting Away: The Impact of Policy and Policymakers on the rise of Tuberculosis in Aboriginal Communities in Canada, 1867-1945”

Jane Whalen is a PhD student in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University where she holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.  Jane completed her MA at the University of Western Ontario under Dr. Jonathan Vance.  Jane’s doctoral research examines the impact of early 20thcentury policy and policymakers on the rise of tuberculosis in Aboriginal communities.

TEL: 519 884 0710 x.4241

FAX: 519 886 5057

whal2788@wlu.ca

MA in Progress "Home Sweet Home: Veterans Housing in Kitchener-Waterloo, 1945-1960"

Kellen Kurschinski graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2009. He has worked as a research and publications assistant at LCMSDS since 2007. Kellen is currently completing his MA in history at the University of Waterloo where he holds a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. He will be attending McMaster University for his doctorate in September 2010, where he will hold a PhD SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. HIs main areas of interest are on the social impact of the First and Second World Wars in Canada.

kellen.kurschinski@gmail.com

Research Assistant

After graduating from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2008, Geoff Keelan worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Terry Copp at LCMSDS and has been heavily involved with the various activities of the Centre since.   He is currently finishing his Master's in History at University of Waterloo with Whitney Lackenbauer, where he will also be pursuing his PhD.  His research focuses on early 20th century political Canadian history and specifically French Canada and the First World War.

geoff.keelan@gmail.com