People
Meet the Editor - Dr. Natalia Aponiuk
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Natalia Aponiuk, Ph.D., is associate professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba; founding director of the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at the University; and past-president of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association. |
Editor Emeritus - Dr. James Frideres
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Dr. James Frideres, Ph.D., is professor of Sociology; holder of the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies; and head, Indigenous Studies, University of Calgary; past editor, CES/EEC. |
Review Editors
Dr. Tamara Seiler
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Tamara Palmer Seiler is Professor and Head, Culture Division, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. A Past President of CESA, her research and teaching interests include literary representations of immigrant and ethnic experience, multiculturalism and the history and culture of the North American West. |
Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou
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Evangelia Tastsoglou is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also a faculty member of the International Development Studies (IDST) Program, the Women's Studies Program, and the Graduate Program in Women and Gender Studies. Since 2001, she has been a board member of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association. Her research interests include: Critical Race, Gender and Class Studies; Gender and Ethnicity; Gender and International Migration; Immigrant Women; Critical, Feminist and Anti-Racist Pedagogies; Diversity and Globalization; Diasporas. |
Editorial Board
Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban
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Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, and a Research Affiliate of the Prairie Metropolis Centre. Her research focuses on the Canadian and comparative dimensions of gender and ethnic politics, nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization, immigration policies and politics, and citizenship theory. She has published over 40 articles and chapters, and is the co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (2002), co-editor of Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations (2008) and editor of Gendering the Nation-State: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives (2008). |
Dr. John Edwards
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John Edwards was born in England, educated there and in Canada, and received a Ph.D. (in psychology) from McGill University in 1974. After working as a Research Fellow at the Educational Research Centre, St Patrick’s College, Dublin, he moved to Nova Scotia, where he is now Professor of Psychology at St Francis Xavier University. His research interests are in language, identity, and the many ramifications of their relationship. He has lectured and presented papers on this topic in some thirty countries. Professor Edwards is on the editorial boards of ten language journals, and is the editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; he also edits a companion series of books. Professor Edwards’s own books include Language in Canada (Cambridge, 1998), Multilingualism (Penguin, 1995), Language, Society and Identity (Blackwell, 1985) and The Irish Language (Garland, 1983). He is also the author of about 200 articles, chapters, and reviews. Professor Edwards is a member of several psychological and linguistic societies, as well as scholarly organizations for the study of ethnicity and nationalism. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. |
Dr. Denise Helly
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Denise Helly has been a senior researcher at Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, a division of Université du Québec, since 1994. She has a PhD in anthropology (La Sorbonne, 1975), and has also studied sociology, political science and sinology. She is a specialist on national and ethnic minorities, citizenship, nationalism, policies of cultural pluralism, multiculturalism, and immigration, discrimination, Islam in the West, and state-religion relationships. She has made several surveys on the integration of immigrants in Quebec, published 10 books and numerous articles on topics such as Chinese Overseas, national minorities in China, Chinese in Canada, Canadian multiculturalism, the history of ideas of citizenship and nation, Québec policy towards ethnocultural minorities, and Muslims in Canada. More recently, she joined European research teams in studying the status of Muslims in Europe. |
Dr. Micheline Labelle
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Micheline Labelle is Full Professor of Sociology at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is the Director of the Centre de recherche sur l’immigration , l’ethnicité et la citoyennete and of the Observatoire international sur le racisme et les discriminations at UQAM. She is also Director of the Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic Studies (UQAM section). She is a member of the board of directors of the Association internationale des études québécoises. Her areas of specialization are diversity, citizenship, racism, nation and transnationalism. |
Dr. John Lehr
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John Lehr is Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winnipeg. His areas of specialty include: Historical geography, Western Canada, Music and Geography, Symbolic Landscapes, and Israel. His research interests include Ukrainian settlement in western Canada, Ukrainian settlements in South America, communal settlements in Canada and Israel, and Provincial parks in Manitoba. |
Dr. Anneke Rummens
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Anneke Rummens is a Health Systems Research Scientist with Community Health Systems Resource Group, and Project Investigator with Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, affiliated with two programmes: “Culture, Community and Health Studies” and “Women’s Mental Health,” and supervises graduate students with the University of Toronto’s Institute for Medical Science. She is also Director of CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre. |
Dr. Lloyd Wong
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Lloyd Wong is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary and the Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration domain leader at the Prairie Metropolis Centre. His research interests include transnationalism; immigration; citizenship; racism & ethnic discrimination; and immigrants in the new economy. Recent articles in Canadian Ethnic Studies, Journal of Women & Minorities in Science and Engineering, International Migration, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Recent book chapters appear in Race and Racism in 21st-Century Canada: Continuity, Complexity, and Change (with R. Trumper), Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation (with V. Satzewich) and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture, and the State. He recently co-edited (with V. Satzewich) and contributed to a book entitled Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada, published by UBC Press. |
Assistant to the Editor
Claire Hutchinson
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Claire Hutchinson has worked in an administrative capacity at the University of Manitoba for nine years. She taught English Composition at the University for three years. She has also worked in internet development and graphic design. Currently, Claire is the writer of 16 screenplays and three plays. She has written a WWII documentary script, "For the Love of Freedom", for Producer/Director Jeffrey Worthington from New Mexico, USA. |
Founded in 1969, our fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to the study of ethnicity, immigration, inter-group relations, and the history and cultural life of ethnic groups in Canada. Issues also include book and film reviews, opinions, immigrant memoirs, translations of primary sources, books received, an index, and an annual bibliography. The journal is published three times a year and is the official publication of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.