Canada in the Age of Eisenhower

7 May 2021

Participants

Stephen Azzi is Director of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton University, where he is an Associate Professor of Political Management, History, and Political Science. He is author of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (1999) and Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada–US Relations (2015).

Penny Bryden is a Professor of History at the University of Victoria and President of the Canadian Historical Association. Her books include Canada: A Political Biography (2016) and ‘A Justifiable Obsession’: Conservative Ontario’s Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 (2013).

Susan Colbourn is a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  She is completing a book on NATO and the Euromissiles and co-edited (with Timothy Andrews Sayle) The Nuclear North: Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age (2020).

Jack Cunningham is Program Coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the former editor of the International Journal.  His publications include the co-edited volumes Australia and Canada in Afghanistan: Perspectives on a Mission (2015) and Australia, Canada, and Iraq: Perspectives on an Invasion (2015).  His current projects include studies of Canada and the Partial Test Ban Treaty, Canadian thinking on nuclear strategy, and Canada-US relations during the Korean War.

Jonathan English received his doctorate in Urban Planning at Columbia University, and he also has a dual MA/MSc in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics.  He is currently the Director of Policy (Transportation) with the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

Eric Fillion is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.  His research explores the social and symbolic importance of music within countercultures and in Canadian international relations.  His ongoing work on cultural diplomacy and international music festivals builds on the experience he has acquired as a musician.  An affiliate of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, he is the founder of the Tenzier archival record label and the author of JAZZ LIBRE et la révolution québécoise (2019).

Bettina Liverant is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary.  She has written extensively on Canadian consumer society, on corporate philanthropy, and on architecture for both academic and general audiences.  Her most recent book is Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada (2018).  She is currently completing a manuscript titled ‘A Business History of Retail: Going Shopping in the United States and Canada’ under contract for the Routledge International Studies in Business History series.

Asa McKercher is an Assistant Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada.  His recent publications include Canada and the World since 1867 (2019) and the co-edited collection Undiplomatic History: Rethinking Canada in the World (2019).

Timothy Andrews Sayle is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Toronto.  In 2019, he published Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order and The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq.

Michael D. Stevenson is an Associate Professor of History at Lakehead University.  He has edited or co-edited three volumes in the Documents on Canadian External Relations series covering the foreign policy of John Diefenbaker’s government, and he is currently writing (with Eric J. Bergbusch) a biography of Howard Green, Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1959 to 1963.

David Webster is a Professor of History and Global Studies at Bishop's University.  He is the author of Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia, 1975-99 (2009) and Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975-99 (2020), and he co-edited (with Greg Donaghy) A Samaritan State Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid (2019).