Meet the editors

The united voices that brought the book together.

 

 

 

Maya Eichler
Editor
Maya holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation and Community Engagement and is an associate professor in political and Canadian studies and women’s studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reina Green
Editor
Reina Green is an associate professor in the English Department at Mount Saint Vincent University where she teaches courses in early modern literature, including the drama of the period, and contemporary Canadian drama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracy Moniz
Editor
Tracy Moniz is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She teaches courses in writing, gender and media, and health communication.

Lynne Gouliquer

Lynne Gouliquer is an associate professor of sociology at Laurentian University.

Her research focuses on the sociology of institutions and marginalization theory as they apply to groups such as Canadian Armed Forces women, 2SLGBTQIA+ soldiers and their families, women firefighters, and Métis peoples.

Ken Hoffer

Ken Hoffer is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy. He is a graduate of the Roméo Dallaire Institute’s Veteran Trainers to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers program at Dalhousie University.

Hoffer has deployed internationally to train military personnel, civilian police, and government officials in the prevention of recruitment and use of children as soldiers.

Frank Letourneau

Frank Letourneau is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy and a victim of the Canadian government’s LGBT Purge. After his forced resignation from the military, Letourneau remained in Halifax where he continues to reside.

Jessica Miller

Jessica Miller is a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces and the founder of the Veteran Farm Project Society.

Carmen Poulin

Carmen Poulin is the associate dean of arts and a professor of psychology and gender and women’s studies at the University of New Brunswick. Her research focuses on the impact of formal and informal social practices on women’s and marginalized groups’ daily lives.

John Whelan

John Whelan is a navy veteran, adjunct professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, and psychologist with over twenty-five years’ experience working with serving and retired members of the military and RCMP.

Darl Wood

Darl Wood is a recently retired professor of women’s studies, sociology, and interdisciplinary studies. After being purged from the military in 1978, she went on to become a feminist activist–advocate on the national and local stage.

Catherine Littler

Catherine Littler is a PhD student at Dalhousie University, mother of two, and a military spouse. Her research primarily focuses on Canadian military spouses’ experiences with food and how these experiences are gendered.

Deborah Norris

Deborah Norris is a professor in the Department of Family Studies and Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University. Informed by her background in family science, critical theories, and qualitative methodology, her research program focuses on military and veteran family research.

Leigh Spanner

Leigh Spanner is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Social Innovation and Community Engagement in Military Affairs at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research involves feminist interrogations of state militaries, with a particular focus on military families.

Viyan Ali

Viyan Ali is Kurdish from Kobani, Syria. She came to Halifax in 2016 with her family. Ali aspires to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism and to then work as a journalist.

Nareen Haj Ali

Nareen Haj Ali is Kurdish from Kobani, Syria. In her hometown, she worked as a lawyer. She moved to Halifax in 2016 with her husband and four children. Ali recently completed her studies in early childhood education at the Nova Scotia Community College.

Catherine Baillie Abidi

Catherine Baillie Abidi is a scholar–practitioner who bridges community and academia. She is a faculty member in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University with twenty-five years of experience working in the humanitarian field, particularly in the areas of forced migration, peace and conflict, and refugee settlement.

Amara Bangura

Amara Bangura is a Sierra Leonean journalist based in Halifax with more than fifteen years of experience reporting and producing programs for international media organizations. He received the prestigious Gordon N. Fisher/JHR Journalism Fellowship at Massey College (University of Toronto).

Marianela Fuertes

Marianela Fuertes is an international human rights lawyer, former auxiliary judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, and a former restorative justice caseworker. Fuertes writes from the perspective of someone who was forcibly migrated due to political persecution.

Claudine Bonner

Claudine Bonner is a scholar of African Canadian history and education and a member of the sociology department and women’s and gender studies program at Acadia University. Her scholarship connects studies of Black Canada to the wider Atlantic World and crosses generational boundaries.

Susan M. Brigham

Susan M. Brigham is a professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is of African descent from an immigrant family. Her research interests include adult education, Africentricity, critical race theory, migration, and arts-informed research methodologies.

Sylvia Parris-Drummond

Sylvia Parris-Drummond, CEO of the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, is actively involved in a broad range of community organizations, including Akoma (AFC/Holdings), Feed Nova Scotia, and the Foundation for Black Communities.

Ken Hynes

Ken Hynes served over thirty years in the Canadian army (artillery), both at home and abroad. Hynes was the director of the First World War Centennial Exhibition Project (2014) and is currently the chief curator of the Army Museum Halifax Citadel.

Don Julien

Don Julien is a peacetime veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, a Mi’kmaw historian and human rights activist, and the current executive director of the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq. Julien has received the Order of Canada and Order of Nova Scotia.

Gregory Kennedy

Gregory Kennedy is an associate professor of history and research director of the Acadian Studies Institute at the Université de Moncton. He is currently working on a book about the soldiers of the 165th (Acadian) Battalion during the First World War.

Jenna Stewart

Jenna Stewart completed a combined major in political studies and history at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is proudly Mi’kmaq Acadian on her mother’s side and Scottish English on her father’s side.

Robert Bean

Robert Bean, professor at NSCAD University, Halifax, is an artist, writer, and curator who has exhibited internationally and has published on photography, contemporary art, and cultural history.

John DeWolf

John DeWolf is the principal of Narrative Environments Studio in Halifax, NS. He views program, story, and experience as integral to his interdisciplinary approach to design.

Paige Farah

Paige Farah is a social entrepreneur and founder of Progress in the Park and the community garden in Mulgrave Park, Halifax. In 2019, she was named a member of the Future City Builders youth cohort in Halifax, where she worked on a project addressing housing insecurity.

Angela Henderson

Angela Henderson is a Canadian artist, designer, and educator who teaches at NSCAD University, Halifax. Her research focuses on experimental cartography, designing accessible cities, and collaboration with children in designing for unstructured play.

Barbara Lounder

Barbara Lounder is a visual artist and a founding member of Narratives in Space+Time Society. An experienced art educator, exhibiting artist, and writer, she has presented her work across Canada and internationally. Her current art practice focuses on walking as a creative methodology.

Catherine Martin

Catherine Martin is an Elder with the Millbrook Mi’kmaw community and an independent filmmaker, playwright, storyteller, and drummer. She held the Nancy’s Chair in women’s studies at Mount Saint Vincent University from 2015 to 2017, and is currently the director of Indigenous Community Engagement at Dalhousie University. In 2017, she was appointed to the Order of Canada, and in 2021, she received the Portia White Prize from Arts Nova Scotia.

Juanita Peters

Juanita Peters is a gifted and multi-award-winning storyteller, playwright, director, and actor, who worked in broadcast radio and television for many years. She is the executive director of the Africville Museum and has lectured at the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University.

Roger Davies

Roger Davies has worked as a teacher and activist in Halifax since his arrival in Canada as a US Vietnam War resister over fifty years ago. He continues to be involved in community initiatives, such as Men for Change and refugee sponsorships.

Brian Gifford

Brian Gifford is the son of Giff Gifford, one of the founders of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms. Brian is active in the peace and environmental movements.

El Jones

El Jones is a poet, educator, journalist, and advocate. She was the fifth poet laureate of Halifax and the fifteenth Nancy’s Chair in women’s studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is an assistant professor in political and Canadian studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.

kathrin winkler

kathrin winkler is a teacher, artist, mother, grandmother, and member of the Nova Scotia Voice of Women. Principles of non-violence and non-harm fuel her interest in feminist peace activism.

Peter Dykhuis

Peter Dykhuis is an internationally exhibiting visual artist and critical writer. He was the director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University from 1996 to 2007 and director/curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery from 2007 to 2022.

Wendy Elliott

Wendy Elliott was a reporter and editor in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley for forty years. She has won a number of regional and national newspaper awards. Currently a columnist with the Valley Journal Advertiser, she is a Wolfville town council member.

Andria Hill-Lehr

Andria Hill-Lehr is dedicated to telling the stories of women who are often ignored in popular historical narratives. She is author of Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe, and her work has appeared in Canada’s History, Maclean’s, and Saltscapes.

Jessica Lynn Wiebe

Jessica Lynn Wiebe is an interdisciplinary artist and military veteran whose work investigates the mechanisms of war, including the complex politics around gender, economy, the architecture of war, and the human condition. Most recently, her focus on the human condition has evolved as she develops work centred on the environment and the physical body through photography and video.