We are thrilled to announce or esteemed line-up of panelists! Read more about them below:
Biographies of Panelists
Sean Carleton is an Associate Professor of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research examines the history of schooling and settler colonialism in Canada, and he is the author of Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia.
Patrice Dutil is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Previously, he spent 19 years in various parts of the public service and non-profit sector. He is a Senior Fellow in the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto as well as at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. His recent publications include Un pays en conflit: La tumultueuse élection canadienne de 1917 (2024); Sir John A. Macdonald and the Apocalyptic Year 1885 (2024); Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian Election (2025).
Catherine Ellis is an Associate Professor and settler scholar in the Department of History at
Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2020-21, she co-Chaired the Standing Strong Task
Force, which addressed the history, legacies and commemoration of her university’s former namesake, Egerton Ryerson. Catherine also recently contributed to the Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations (2023).
Jackson Pind is a mixed settler-Anishinaabe historian of Indigenous education and an Assistant Professor, Indigenous methodologies at the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University. His work focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently. His upcoming book, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School will be published this fall by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
David A. Wilson is a Professor in the Celtic Studies Program and History Department at the
University of Toronto, the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include a prize-winning two-volume biography of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, and more recently Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police, which received the Champlain Society’s Chalmers Award, the C.P. Stacey Prize in Canadian Military History, and the Peter Toner Research Publication Award.
Cecilia Morgan (forum moderator) is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT and is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, U of T. Her publications include Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory 1850s-1990s (2016), Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980 (2015), and, with Colin M. Coates, Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (2002).
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