Contributors / Collaborateurs

Labour / Le Travail
Issue 95 (2025)

Constance Backhouse, C.M., O. Ont., frsc, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa.

Émile Baril is a York University PhD alum in critical human geography and course director at Université de Montréal. He is a research collaborator at the Toronto Metropolitan University cerc in Migration and Integration and at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (inrs) in Montréal.

Sophie Blais est chargée de cours et consultante en conception pédagogique, en recherche et en rédaction. Avant d’entreprendre des études en éducation, elle a complété une scolarité doctorale en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses champs d’intérêt sont l’histoire sociale et ouvrière nord-ontarienne.

Jason Foster is professor of human resources and labour relations at Athabasca University. He is also director of Parkland Institute, a public interest research institute based at the University of Alberta. He is past president of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association.

Nancy Janovicek was Joy Parr’s doctoral student at Simon Fraser University from 1997 to 2002. She is professor of history at the University of Calgary.

Jane Komori is Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and assistant professor of Labor, Migration, and Racial Capitalism in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the labour history and self-organization of Asian immigrant and Indigenous workers in western Canada’s primary resource industries from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Heather McIntyre is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. She researches the history of religion in Canada, including an ongoing dissertation about print culture and missionary publications aimed at Indigenous people in 19th-century Anglican missions.

Elizabeth Quinlan is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research program spans the broad areas of workplace harassment, sexual violence, and labour history. The program’s coherence is guided by the use of arts-based forms of expression as a tool to challenge, resist, and transform systemic oppression. Representing the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association, Quinlan serves on the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Executive Council and Saskatoon & District Labour Council.

Larry Savage is professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University and co-author (with Stephanie Ross) of Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics (2024).

Michael E. Vance is professor of history at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. His research focuses on 19th-century Scottish emigration and settlement as well as the nature of Scottish overseas identity. Among his recent publications are Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700–1930 (2020; co-edited with S. Karly Kehoe) and “‘Located on Land in Nova Scotia’: British Soldier Settlement after the Napoleonic Wars,” in Acadiensis (2023; with William R. Miles).

Mircea Vultur is a professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (inrs) and a member of the joint implementation committee of the inrs-uqar Joint Research Unit in Digital Transformation in Support of Regional Development.

Daniel Westlake is assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He has published articles on multiculturalism and political parties as well as Canadian elections.

Karel Yon is a research fellow in sociology at the idhes laboratory (Université Paris Nanterre, cnrs). He holds a PhD in political science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, obtained in 2008. His work focuses on trade unions, social movements, and industrial relations in France, the United States, and Mexico

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2025v95.001.