P. E. (Penny Elizabeth) BRYDEN Education: 1970-1983 Primary and secondary schools: Waterloo, Ontario. 1987 B.A. Honours History, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario 1988 M.A., York University, North York, Ontario. 1994 Ph.D., York University, North York, Ontario. Fields of specialization: Canadian history American history Canadian government and politics Dissertation: Liberal Politics and Social Policy in the Pearson Era, 1957-1968 Supervisor: J. L. Granatstein Employment: 2013- Full Professor, University of Victoria 2005-2013 Associate Professor with tenure, University of Victoria 2000-2005 Associate Professor with tenure, Mount Allison University 1999-2003 Head of Department of History and Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (tenure-track, 1995) 1993-1994 McCain Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Arts, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick Publications: Books: A Justifiable Obsession : Conservative Ontario s Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. (edited with Colin Coates, Maureen Lux, Lynne Marks, Marcel Martel and Daniel Samson) Visions: The Canadian History Modules Project Toronto: Nelson, 2011. Individual modules edited by P. E. Bryden:
2 Confederation: What Kind of Country Are We To Have? (pp. 1-48); The Great War: Leaders, Followers and Record-Keepers (pp. 1-48); Protest, Parties and Politics Between the Wars, 1919-1939 (pp. 1-48) The Great Depression in Canada: How Did People Cope? (pp. 1-48) Constitutional Negotiations in Late 20 th Century Canada: Will We Survive? (pp. 1-48) (edited with Dimitry Anastakis) Framing Canadian Federalism Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. (edited with Michael J. Tucker and Raymond B. Blake) Canada and the New World Order: Facing the New Millennium Toronto: Irwin Publishers, 2000. Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968, Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, 1997. pp. ix-233. (edited with Raymond B. Blake and J. Frank Strain) The Welfare State in Canada: Past, Present and Future, Toronto: Irwin Publishers, 1997. Articles and Chapters in Books: (* indicates a refereed publication) Intersecting and Edging Around Victoria Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 39 no. 2 (2013, forthcoming) * Ontario Exceptionalism: Old Ideas in the New Ontario, Canada: The State of the Federation, 2010 (Kingston: Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 2013) pp. 33-47. 2013 CHA Annual Meeting Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 39 no. 1 (2013) pp. 13-14 Update on the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 38 no. 3 (2012) pp. 20-21. * Intergovernmental Guardians in the 1960s: Finance s Role in Setting the National Agenda, in The Guardian: Perspectives on the Ontario Ministry of Finance Patrice Dutil, ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011) pp. 109-130. * The Other Battle: The Achievement of National Medicare, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 26:2 (2009), pp. 75-92. - reprinted in Making Medicare: New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 71-88.
3 * The Obligations of Federalism: Ontario and the Origins of Equalization, in Framing Canadian Federalism Dimitry Anastakis and P. E. Bryden, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009) pp. 75-94. *(with Dimitry Anastakis) Introduction, in Framing Canadian Federalism Dimitry Anastakis and P. E. Bryden, eds. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2009) pp. 3-14. * The Limits of National Policy: Integrating Regional Development into the National Agenda American Review of Canadian Studies vol. 37 no. 4 (winter 2007) pp. 475-491. * The Constitutional Dialogue Between Provincial and Federal Governments: Ontario Opens the Conversation Supreme Court Law Review 2 nd series, vol. 36 (2007) pp. 31-50. - reprinted in A Living Tree: The Legacy of 1982 in Canada s Political Evolution Graeme Mitchell, Ian Peach, David E. Smith and John Donaldson Whyte, eds. Toronto: LexisNexis, 2007. * Brian Mulroney and Intergovernmental Relations: The Limits of Collaborative Federalism, in Transforming the Nation: Brian Mulroney and Canada Raymond B. Blake, ed. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2007) pp. 205-225. * Ontario s Agenda in Post-Imperial Constitutional Negotiations, 1949-1968, in Canada at the End of Empire, Phillip Buckner, ed. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005) pp. 216-231 Lessons from the Big Blue Machine: Ontario-Ottawa Relations, 1945-1985, Constructing Tomorrow s Federalism (Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy/ Centre for Research and Information on Canada, 2004) pp. 8-9. * Beyond the Green Book: Ontario s Approach to Intergovernmental Negotiations, 1945-1955, in Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, eds. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2003) pp. 133-162. Giving the Past a Future: Undergraduate History in the 21 st Century, in Canadian Issues/ Themes Canadien October/ November 2001 pp. 30-32 * Ontario, 1850 to the Present in Canada, Confederation to Present CD Rom Bob Hesketh, project coordinator, (Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia, 2001) 79 screens * The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Negotiations, in Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader Edgar-André Montigny and Lori Chambers, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) pp. 381-408.
4 * Prescience, Prudence and Procrastination: National Social Policies in the Pearson Era, in Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator Norman Hillmer, ed. (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, 1999) pp. 92-103 + endnotes * Money and Politics: Relations Between Ontario and Ottawa in the Diefenbaker Years, in The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957 D. C. Story and R. Bruce Shepard, eds. (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1998) pp. 123-135 + endnotes The Liberal Party of Canada: Organizing for Social Reform, 1957-1966, in Canada at the Crossroads: The Critical 1960s, Gustav Schmidt and J. L. Granatstein, eds. (Bochum: Brockmeyer Verlag, 1994) pp. 25-47. (with Dean F. Oliver), Canada/Sweden: Welfare States in Trouble, in Welfare States in Trouble: Historical Perspectives on Canada and Sweden, S. Akerman and J. L. Granatstein, eds. (Toronto: Sweden-Canada Academic Foundation, 1994 and Uppsala: The Swedish Institute for North American Studies, 1994) Historical introductions in Mary Ann McColl et. al., The Theoretical Basis of Occupation: An Annotated Bibliography of Applied Theory in the Professional Literature, New Jersey: SLACK Inc., 1993. Second edition, 2003. Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries Liberal Party in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004 Canada Pension Plan, Community of Communities, Medicare, and Omnibus Bill, 1969 all in Oxford Companion to Canadian History Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004 Conference Papers: Power at the Centre in the Watergate Era: Canadian and American Perspectives on Executive Power Association for Canadian Studies in the US, Tampa, Nov. 2013 The Origins of Equalization and the Foundations of Universality, Social Science History Association annual meeting, Vancouver, Nov. 2012 Participatory Constitutionalism, Political Intimacies, and the Long Shadow of Pierre Trudeau, 1982-1992, University of New Brunswick Law School, Fredericton, October 2012.
5 Intimacy and the Administrative Body: The Federal Civil Service in the Pearson Era at Transformation: State Nation and Citizenship in a New Environment, Toronto, October 2011. Controlling the Narrative: Telling Constitutional Stories in the Patriation Era at Institute of Public Administration in Canada annual conference, Victoria, Aug. 2011 The Faceless Bureaucrat and the Changing Nature of Leadership in 1960s Ottawa at Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fredericton, June 2011 Experts and the State: The Role of Historians in 1960s Canada at People and Politics Conference, Sackville NB, March 2011 The Intimacy of Politics in an Age of Nation-Building: A New Look at Canadian Constitutional Negotiations at the Canadian Committee on Women s History Conference Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women s History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Activism, Vancouver, Aug. 2010 Whose Past? Whose Future? Historians and the Public Policy Process in the 1960s at Canadian Historical Association Annual meeting, Saskatoon, May 2007. A Game of Chess, not Checkers: Ontario and the Negotiation of the Constitution Act, 1982 at Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy s conference A Living Tree: The Legacy of 1982 in Canada s Political Evolution, Regina, May 2007. The Intergovernmental Affairs Division: Ontario s Role in Setting the National Agenda at the Institute for Public Administration in Canada Conference on Ontario s Ministry of Finance, Toronto, July 2006 Lessons from the Big Blue Machine: Ontario-Ottawa Relations, 1945-1985, presented at the Saskatchewan Institute for Public Policy s conference on Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism: New Routes to Effective Governance, Regina, March 2004 The Obligations of Federalism: Ontario and Equalization Since 1956, presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Portland OR, Nov. 2003 The Historian in the Public Policy Process, presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual meeting, Toronto, May 2002 National Representation in the Regions: The Case of Tom Kent and the Cape Breton Development Corporation, presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual meeting, Toronto, May 2002 More Than Just Background Information? Teaching History in an Interdisciplinary Context presented at the Association of Canadian Studies Annual Conference, Giving the Future a Past, Winnipeg, October 2001
6 Ontario s Agenda in Post-Imperial Constitutional Negotiations, 1949-1982, presented at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies conference on Canada and the End of Empire, London England, April 2001 Ontario s National Aspirations: Reconstructing Federalism at the Dominion- Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Edmonton, May 2000 Designing National Policy in the Provincial State: Ontario s Social Policy Agenda in the Postwar Years, presented at the Journal of Policy History Conference on Policy History, St. Louis, MO, May 1999 Pawn or King-Maker?: The Maritimes, Ontario and the Politics of Federalism, presented at the Atlantic Canadian Studies Conference, Charlottetown, May 1998. Prudence or Procrastination?: National Social Policies in the Pearson Era presented at the conference Celebrating Pearson s Centennial, Ottawa, April 1997 Money and Politics: Ontario s Relations with Ottawa During the Diefenbaker Years presented at the Diefenbaker Legacy Conference, Saskatoon, March 1997 The Political Implementation of a National Cultural Symbol: National Health Insurance, 1960-1972 presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Catharines, June 1996. Two Generations of Social Welfare Bureaucrats and the Completion of the Canadian National Social Security System, 1945-1968 presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 1996. The Liberal Party, the Federal Government and Social Policy, 1957-1968, presented to Canada at the Crossroads: The Critical 1960s, Bochum Germany, December 1993. Changing Conceptions of National Responsibility: The Liberal Party and the Canada Pension Plan, 1957-1965, presented to Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, June 1993 The Restructuring of the Federal Liberal Party, 1957 to 1963: New National Policies, New National Organization, presented to Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, June 1993 The Idea of National Responsibility: The Liberal Party and Social Policy, 1957-1968, presented to Canada at the Crossroads: The Critical 1960s, Toronto, Ontario, May 1993.
7 Symposia, Commentary and Invited Presentations: Invited workshop participant, Constitutions, Federations, Democracies, University of Southern California, February 2013. Ontario Exceptionalism, discussant at Shifting Power: The New Ontario and What it Means for Canada, Mowat Centre/Institute for Intergovernmental Affairs Conference, Toronto, November 2010 Celebrating the Founding of Quebec Over the Last 400 Years Alliance Francais, Victoria BC, Sept. 2008 An Introduction to Canadian History, International Canadian Studies Institute, Victoria BC, July 2008 Chair/Commentator, Maritime Women and Politics, Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver BC, June 2008. The Liberal Party Confronts Medicare, 1958-1968 at Policy History of Medicare workshop, Saskatoon, May 2007. Historians and Public Policy, at Canada on Display Celebration, Trent University, April 2007. The SSHRC Standard Research Grant panelist on Faculty of Humanities Workshop, University of Victoria, April 2006 The Spirit of Christmas: Wine, Culture and Community Through the Ages, presented at Winegarden Estates Winery, Baie Verte, NB, December 2004 Knowledge: Responsibility of Citizenship? presented at the Association of Canadian Studies Annual meeting, Halifax, June 2003 The Historian and Public History: Expert or Audience? seminar in public history, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown PE, January 2002 Ontario in Postwar Canada: The Not-so-Honest Broker, graduate colloquium at McMaster University, Hamilton ON, January 2001 Chair/Commentator, Communications and Technology after the Second World War at Twentieth Century Canadian Nationalisms Conference, Massey College, Toronto, March 2001 Beyond the Green Book: The Ontario Approach to Intergovernmental Negotiations, 1945-1955, presented at The Postwar Interregnum Conference, Massey College, Toronto, December 2000 Honorary Degree Citation, L. R. Red Wilson, Mount Allison University Convocation, May 2000
8 Commentator, King and Community at Mackenzie King s Canada Conference, University of Waterloo, December 1999 Moderator, Thinking, Writing and Studying the Nation at Nationalism, Citizenship and National Identity Conference, Mount Allison University, November 1999 Thinkers Conferences and the Role of Academics in the Policy-Making Process, Mount Allison Works-In-Progress Seminar, November 1998 John T. Saywell and the University, colloquium in honour of J.T. Saywell, York University, Toronto, May 1998 Honorary Degree Citation, Robert McNeil, Mount Allison University Convocation, May 1998 The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Federal-Provincial Constitutional Negotiations in the 1960s and Beyond, Dalhousie University faculty seminar, Halifax, March 1998 Ontario in Confederation: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier or Spy? Mount Allison Works-In- Progress seminar, November 1997 Chair/Commentator, Historiography and the Welfare State in Canada, Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. John s NF, June 1997 Discussant, What Now?: Constitutional Matters in the Wake of the Quebec Referendum, Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, November 1995. The Egghead, the Politicians and Round One of Social Policy Reform to the Sackville Humanities Association, Sackville NB, January 1995
9 Media For the Canadian Experience series, translated and published in 20 languages in over 50 ethnic newspapers in Canada: Ontario: Giant of Confederation, http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 13 Dec. 2010) Quebec: The Heart of French Canada http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 20 Dec. 2010) The West http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 27 Dec. 2010) The Atlantic Provinces http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 3 Jan. 2011) Federal-Provincial Constitutional Relations http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 10 Jan. 2011) Federal-Provincial Economic Relations http://www.cdnexperience.ca/ (posted 17 Jan. 2011) Taking down a Liberal Dynasty, National Post 24 December 2005, A20 Commentary and interviews on the following programs: Murray Langdon s Morning Show, CFAX radio Morningside, CBC radio Maritime Noon Phone-In, CBC radio The House, CBC radio As it Happens, CBC radio Book Reviews Over 25 book reviews have appeared in the following journals: American Historical Review Canadian Book Review Annual Canadian Foreign Policy Canadian Historical Review Canadian Public Policy International Journal Journal of Economic History University of Toronto Quarterly
10 Funded Research: External Grants: 2012-15 SSHRC Insight Grant, From Mandarin to Manager, $75,354 2011 ASPP subvention for A Justifiable Obsession, $8000 2008 ASPP subvention for Framing Canadian Federalism, $8000 2006 Institute for Public Administration in Canada, Study Team on Ontario s Ministry of Finance, $4840 2003 New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, $4450 2000-02 SSHRC research grant: Federalisms and Federations research grant program: Ontario-Ottawa relations, 1982-1990, $24,550 1999-02 Grant coordinator, Mount Allison ASUP-SSHRC: Blood and Belonging: Citizenship, Communities and Change, $62,556 1997-00 SSHRC research grant: Ontario s Relations with Ottawa, 1945-1982, $31,980 1997 Aid to Scholarly Publications Program subvention for Planners and Politicians Internal Grants: 2008 University of Victoria SSHRC: The Long Memories of Federal Government Departments: Changing Bureaucratic Culture in Postwar Canada, $3846 2005 University of Victoria SSHRC: The Faceless Bureaucrat: The Federal Civil Service, 1957-1984, $3592 2004 Leadership Mount Allison Curricular grant, student participation in Remembering Canada conference, $700 1999 Mount Allison ASUP SSHRC: The Maritimes and Ottawa, $800.00 1997 Mount Allison ASUP SSHRC: Ontario s Role in Maritime Federal-Provincial Relations, $1642.80 1996 Mount Allison ASUP SSHRC: Ontario-Ottawa Relations under Diefenbaker, $3531 1995 Mount Allison Bell Travel Grant: travel to Atlanta, GA for AHA Annual meeting, $750 1994 Mount Allison ASUP SSHRC: Tom Kent and the Politics of Regional Development, $1000 Teaching Experience: Undergraduate Teaching: 2005- History 131, Canadian History to Confederation, University of Victoria History 132, Canadian History Since Confederation, University of Victoria
11 History 344, Canadian Political History, University of Victoria History 345, Canadian-American Relations, University of Victoria History 359, Quebec Since Confederation, University of Victoria History 469, Social and Political History of Food in North America, University of Victoria History 490, Honours thesis (1 to date) 1993-2005 History 1601/2, New Nations in North America, 1450-1867, Mount Allison University History 2410, Canadian History, Beginnings to the Present, Mount Allison University History 2510, The American Experience, Mount Allison University History 3431, Quebec from Confederation to Separatism, Mount Allison University History 3461, Canadian External Relations, Mount Allison University History 3501, Social and Political History of Food in North America, Mount Allison University History 3660, American Social History, Mount Allison University History 3650, Post-Civil War America, Mount Allison University History 3250, Post-Confederation Canada, Mount Allison University History 4440, Modern Canada, Mount Allison University History 4450, Crimes Courts and the Constitution Mount Allison University and Mount Allison continuing education program History 4950, Parties and Policies in a Federal State: Canada, 1920 to the Present, Mount Allison University History 4950 D, Ontario Political History, Mount Allison University supervisor, History 4990, honours thesis (16 to date) supervisor, Canadian Studies 4990, honours thesis (1 to date) co-ordinator, History 4990, thesis research methodology Graduate Teaching: 2005- History 501A, Field in American History History 503B, Field in 20 th Century Canadian History History 591, Comparative Canadian-American Political History Graduate supervision Lisa Pasolli, PhD: Talkin Day Care Blues : Motherhood, Work and Child Care in Twentieth Century British Columbia, supervisor (defended June 2012) Lee Blanding, PhD: Re-Branding Canada: The Origins of Multiculturalism Policy in Canada, 1945-1974, supervisor (defended May 2013)
12 Rachael Conway, MA: Reservations to Citizenship: The Voting Rights of Status Indians, 1950-1960 supervisor (completed December 2012) Bryan Macleod, MA: Border Security and 9/11, supervisor (completed Dec. 2011) Matthew Chapman, MA: Aviation safety and the BCATP, thesis committee member (defended Sept. 2010) Stephen Harrison, MA: Electoral reform in BC, supervisor (defended July 2010) Catherine Ulmer, MA: Charlotte Whitton and the Welfare State, supervisor (defended August 2009) Takaia Larson, MA: Women, Work and Memory, thesis committee member (defended August 2007) Jason Wallace, MA: ICBC, thesis committee member (defended May 2006) External examination: Garth Williams, Laurier: Le Député de Québec-Est, Ph. D., University of Ottawa, 2003 Professional Service Referee and Reviewing Contributions Member, Aid to Scholarly Publication Program board (2012-2015) Committee 2 member, SSHRC Standard Research Grants (2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08) National Adjudication Panel Member, SSHRC Federalism and Federation Program (2002, 2003) Assessor, SSHRC Research Grants Program (1996, 2000, 2003, 2012, 2013) External tenure and promotion review: University of Regina (2004) Dalhousie University (2007) University of Western Ontario (2008, 2012) Manuscript reviewer, Irwin Law (2012) Manuscript reviewer, McGill-Queen s University Press (1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013) Manuscript reviewer, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Press (2008, 2009) Manuscript reviewer, Nelson Canada (2003) Manuscript reviewer, Osgoode Society for Legal History (2002, 2006) Manuscript proposal reviewer, Oxford University Press (2004, 2011) Manuscript reviewer, Prentice-Hall Publishers (2000) Manuscript reviewer, Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (1999) Manuscript reviewer, UBC Press (2013) Manuscript reviewer, University of Toronto Press (2009)
13 Referee, Acadiensis (2002, 2009) Referee, Atlantis (2009) Referee, BC Studies (2005) Referee, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (2012) Referee, Canadian Historical Review (2003, 2010, 2011) Referee, Historical Studies (2013) Referee, Journal of Historical Biography (2012, 2013) Referee, Journal of Policy History (1997, 1998, 2012) Referee, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (1995, 1996, 1999) Referee, Journal of Canadian Studies (1999, 2008, 2010) Referee, National History (1996) Referee, Ontario History (2002) Referee, State of the Federation (2011) Administration Chair, Political History Article Prize Committee, Canadian Historical Association, 2011-2012 Editorial Board, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 2006-2009 Board of Directors, Association for Canadian Studies, 2005-2007, 2003-2005 Rhodes Scholarship Adjudication Panel, Atlantic Canada, 2004 Council Member, Canadian Historical Association, 2000-2003 Chair, Department Chairs Committee of the Canadian Historical Association, 2000-2003 President, Canadian International Council, Victoria Branch, 2011-2013 Vice-President, Canadian International Council, Victoria Branch, 2009-2011 Board member, Canadian International Council, Victoria Branch, 2008-2009 Board member, Margaret Chase Smith Memorial Library and Congressional Record Office, Skowhegan, ME, 1995-2005 Program Chair, Canadian Historical Association section, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria, 2013 Program Committee, Canadian Historical Association section, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Waterloo, 2012 Program Committee, Canadian Historical Association section, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vancouver, 2008 Conference co-organizer, Association for Canadian Studies, Remembering Canada: How We Recall and Represent the Past, Montreal, November 2004 Conference co-organizer, Association for Canadian Studies, Presence of the Past, Dartmouth NS, October 2003 Conference co-organizer, Association for Canadian Studies, 20 Years Under the Charter, Ottawa, April 2002 Conference co-organizer, Organization for the History of Canada, Twentieth Century Canadian Nationalisms, Massey College, University of Toronto, March 2001
14 Conference co-organizer, Canada and World Order: Facing the Millennium, Mount Allison University, 2-4 April 1998 Conference co-organizer, Canada s Welfare State: Past, Present, Future Mount Allison University, 12-13 April 1996 University Service: Member, Departmental ARPT Committee (2010-11, 2011-12) Member, Faculty of Humanities Committee on Committees (2010-12) Member, Faculty of Humanities Curriculum Committee (2010-12) Member, Faculty of Humanities Dean s Advisory Committee (2008-09) Member, Faculty of Humanities Advisory Committee to the Associate Dean (2008-2010) Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies Admissions and Awards Committee (2007) Member, ARPT, Americanist Hiring Committee (2006) Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, University of Victoria (2010-11; 2005-06) Member, Salary Review Committee, Department of History, University of Victoria (2006-08) Member, Employment Equity Committee, Mount Allison University (2004-05, 1995-97) Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (2003-05) Member, Tenure and Promotions Committee (2003-05) Faculty representative, Argosy Publications Board (2002-03, 1994-96) Chair, Argosy Publication Board (2003-05) Member, Sabbatical Leaves Committee (2002-04) Senate Committee on Emeriti Appointments (2002-05) History Department Member, Senate (2002-04, 1999-2000) Faculty representative, Liquor Policy Committee (2001-2005, 1995-2000) Canadian Studies Advisory Committee (2001-03) MAFA Membership Secretary (2001-03) Faculty representative, strategic planning task force on sustainable funding bases (2000) Member, Senate Agenda Committee (1999-2000) Member, MAFA Fringe-Benefits Subcommittee (1998-2000) Faculty representative, Board of Regents Finance and Administration Committee, Mount Allison University (1998- ) Faculty co-chair, Mount Allison University Capital Campaign (1997-98) MAFA representative, Employment Equity Panel (1997-98) Organizing Committee, Mount Allison, SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Program (1997-2000) Steering Committee, Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University (1996-99) Faculty representative, Student Governance Committee (1995-99) First-year student advisor (1995-2000) Member, President s Advisory Committee on Women s Issues (1995-1999) Faculty representative, Academic Enrichment Committee (1993-94)
15 Professional Contracts and Consulting 2004 Consultant, CBC s Greatest Canadian television series 2004 Historical consultant, fur trade video, Epoch Multimedia 2002 Historical consultant, Canada in World War II history videos, Epoch Multimedia 1999-2001 Historical consultant, post-1945 Canadian history videos, Royal York Communications for Heritage Canada 1999 Historical consultant, Canada Hall review, Canadian Museum of Civilization 1998 Panelist, The 100 Most Important Canadians in History, Maclean s 1997 Historical Consultant, Ranking the Prime Ministers, Maclean s Professional Memberships: Association of Canadian Studies Canadian Historical Association Canadian International Council Canadian Political Science Association Organization for the Study of Canada Ontario Historical Society Osgoode Society for Legal History Honours and Awards: Paul Paré Award for Teaching and Research Excellence, Mount Allison University (2003, 1999, 1998, 1997) Walter Gordon Fellowship, York University (1992-93, 1991-92) John A. Macdonald Fellowship, Government of Ontario (1988-91) W.L. Morton Prize in History, Trent University (1985)
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