THE TEAM
WHO WE ARE
Benjamin Bryce
Benjamin Bryce is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is a historian of migration in the Americas, with a focus on race, religion, and environment. He is the author of To Belong in Buenos Aires (2018) and its Spanish-language translation Ser de Buenos Aires (2019). He also co-edited Entangling Migration History (2015), Making Citizens in Argentina (2017) and Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (2021). He is a co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
Marcel Martel
Marcel Martel is a professor in the Department of History at York University, where he holds the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History. His research interests include language and minority rights, moral regulation, national celebrations, and public policies. He is the author of Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice since 1500 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014), Not This Time: Canadians, Public History, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 (University of Toronto Press, 2006), Le Deuil d’un pays imagine. Rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français (Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1997), and co-author of Entre solitudes et réjouissances: les francophones et les fêtes nationales, 1834-1982 (Boréal, 2021) and Speaking Up : A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (Between the Lines, 2012). He co-edited with Jacqueline D. and Adrian Shubert Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867 (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
Adrian Shubert
Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the social, cultural, and political history of 19th and 20th century Spain and his books range from research monographs, through broad syntheses, to textbooks. He is currently completing two projects: a virtual museum of the Spanish Civil War and, with Boyd Cothran, a microhistory opf late 19th century globalization told through the career of the British merchant vessel the Edwin Fox. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Killam Research Fellowship, and his work has been recognized by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and his decoration by King Juan Carlos I of Spain with the Order of Civil Merit.