Associates

Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Faculty Associate

Geoff Hayes is an Associate professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of the The Lincs: A History of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment (1986,2007) and Waterloo County: An Illustrated History (1997). With Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold, Hayes is the editor of Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (2007).

UW Profile

519 888 4567 ex. 35138

ghayes@artsmail.uwaterloo.ca

Jonathan Vance holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario.

Faculty Associate

His books and articles include Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination (2002), A Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape" (2003), Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation (2006), Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War against Nazi Occupation (2008), and Bamboo Cage: The POW Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-43 (2009). He is currently exploring a new project on regional enlistment rates in Canada during the Great War. Jonathan edits the book review supplement for Canadian Military History.

UWO Profile

jvance@uwo.ca

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo 

Faculty Associate

P. Whitney Lackenbauer specializes in Canadian military and diplomatic history, Arctic sovereignty and security issues, and civil-military relations. His recent books include The Canadian Forces & Arctic Sovereignty: Debating Roles, Interests, and Requirements, 1968-1974 (edited with peter Kikkert, 2010), A Commemorative History of Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military (with John Moses, Scott Sheffield, and Maxime Gohier, 2009), Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (with Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, 2008) (winner of the 2009 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy), Battle Grounds: The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands (2007), Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Military: Historical Perspectives (edited with Craig Mantle, 2007), and Kurt Meyer on Trial: A Documentary Record (edited with Chris Madsen, 2007).  

His current research includes studies of the Canadian Rangers, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, modernization in the Cold War Arctic, Aboriginal blockades and occupations, and Aboriginal-military relations in British settler societies. 

University of Waterloo Profile

Whitney's Personal Website

TEL: 519 884 8110 ex. 28233
FAX: 519 884 5759

pwlacken@watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University

Faculty Associate 

Dr. Edgar currently is serving as executive director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), located at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research and teaching interests include conflict resolution and post-conflict peacebuilding, global defence industry and defense trade issues, and the intersection between international politics and international law.

WLU Profile

519 884 0710 ex. 2728

aedgar@wlu.ca

Faculty Associate

Mark Humphries specializes in the social history of Canadian medicine and war and society in the era of the First World War. He has published articles on traumatized veterans, shell shock, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the Canadian experience overseas during the Great War in the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, War & Society, and several edited collections for UBC Press and WLU Press. His books include The Selected Papers of Sir Arthur Currie: Diaries, Letters, and Report to the Ministry, 1917–1933 and Combat Stress in the 20th Century: the Commonwealth Experience, co-authored with Terry Copp.

Mark’s first monograph will be published by the University of Toronto press in 2011 as The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health which examines how the 1918 influenza pandemic and the experience of war shaped governmentalities of public health in Canada between 1832 and 1920. He is also co-editor with John Maker of a series of translations from the German official history of the Great War, Der Weltkrieg, 1914 bis 1918, the first volume of which is titled Germany’s Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915. The next volume in the series, examining the outbreak of war in 1914, will be published in the autumn of 2011.

Mark is currently writing his second monograph on shell shock and its legacy for traumatized veterans of the First World War while beginning a survey of the social history of Canadian medicine from contact to the present for Oxford University Press. He teaches Canadian social, medical, and military history at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta.

Mount Royal University Research Profile 

TEL: 403 440 6760

FAX: 403 440 6659

mhumphries@mtroyal.ca

John English is a Canadian academic who has also been very active in Canadian public life. He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament between 1993 and 1997. Subsequently, he served as a Special Ambassador for Landmines and as a Special Envoy for the election of Canada to the Security Council. He has also served as President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs; Chair of the Board of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum; and is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada's largest think tank devoted exclusively to the study of international affairs. He is concurrently Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

He has written many books and articles and was the official biographer of former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. At the request of the Trudeau family, he wrote the two-part Biography of Pierre Elliot Trudeau - Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968 (2007) and Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968-2000 (2009)

He is a Member of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recipient of many literary awards.

Research Associate

Eric McGeer teaches history and Latin at St. Clement's School in Toronto. He received his doctorate from L'Université de Montréal, and as a specialist in Byzantine history he has concentrated on Byzantine warfare and law. These include the editions, translations, and studies of two tactical treatises published in Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century (1995: repr. 2008), and an annotated translation of legal decrees pertaining to the sale or transfer of property, The Land Legislation of the Macedonian Emperors (2000). Recent articles include a study of military rhetoric and holy war in Byzantium and a survey of Byzantine military literature in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies.

A visit to Normandy, much enhanced by Terry Copp and Mike Bechthold's guidebook to the battlefields, broadened his interest in Canadian military history and opened two areas of research. Words of Valediction and Remembrance: Canadian Epitaphs of the Second World War focussed on the personal inscriptions chosen by next of kin to be engraved on the headstones of the fallen (he appeared on One on One with Peter Mansbridge to talk about this book - Click here for the Video); and a series of guidebooks to the Canadian battlefields in Italy, prepared in collaboration with Matt Symes, will reach completion in 2010 when the guide to the Gothic Line and the Battle of the Rivers takes its place alongside Ortona and the Liri Valley (2007) and Sicily and Southern Italy (co-authored by Terry Copp, 2008).

emcgeer@scs.on.ca

Instructor in the War Studies program at the Royal Military College of Canada

Faculty Associate

Andrew Iarocci (PhD, Wilfrid Laurier 2005) recently completed a two-year research fellowship at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, where he also served for one year as Collections Manager, Transportation & Artillery. Dr. Iarocci is the author of Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-15 (UTP 2008), coeditor of Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (WLU Press 2007), and publishes more broadly on the material culture of twentieth-century warfare. He is currently writing Chariots of Mars, a study of mechanization, transport, and logistics in the First World War, under contract with the University of Toronto Press.

Dr. Iarocci is an instructor in the War Studies program at the Royal Military College of Canada, and has taught widely in Canadian military history, modern warfare, technology, and strategic thought.

ajiarocci@live.ca

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo, and Lecturer in the Department of First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario

Faculty Associate

Dr. Winegard specializes in Canadian military and First Nations history, and the relationships between Aboriginal peoples and the state in British settler societies. Tim recently published a book entitled OKA: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces (2008). Forthcoming books include All the King’s Men: Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War and For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. His edited volume With Dunsterforce: The Diary of Sgt. Crofford G. Campbell, 1918-1919 is also soon to be published.

His current research includes a study of the Haudenosaunee/Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy during the World Wars, the evolution of Canadian Forces domestic operations and interventions in Aboriginal blockades and occupations, and Canada’s reaction and role during the 1982 Falklands War.

Personal Website

tcwinegard@gmail.com

Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Faculty Associate

Patrick M. Dennis (B.A. University of Windsor; M.A. University of Northern Colorado) specializes in political-military affairs.  He is a former senior officer in the Canadian Air Force who served abroad for over 22 years, which included operational tours and senior staff appointments in both NORAD and NATO.  In addition, he served as the Canadian Defence Attaché to Israel from 2001- 2004 and was the Vice Director for Training and Lessons Learned at Headquarters United States Northern Command from 2004 to 2006.  

A graduate of the NATO Defence College (Rome, Italy) and the United States Joint Forces Staff College (Norfolk, Virginia). Dennis also attended the Canadian Forces National Security Studies Course (Kingston) and the Canadian Forces Staff School (Toronto). He has published articles in the Canadian Military Journal, Canadian Military History as well as Esprit De Corps magazine.  

WLU Profile

519-884-0710 ext.3150

pdennis@wlu.ca