2004-05

Changes in Canadian Studies The Centre for Canadian Studies is both saddened and excited about recent changes. The Centre will miss the services of Drs. Bill Cross and Jane Ku, both of whom are leaving Mount A. For the last five years Bill Cross has served as Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. Along with the introduction of the Visiting Scholar and the Enrichment Program, his most notable accomplishment was the completion of the Canadian Democratic Audit, a ten volume exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of democracy in Canada. Bill will be taking up a position in Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. Jane Ku has just completed a two-year term as Canadian Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow. She is noted as a dynamic and popular teacher who is an expert on Canadian immigration and diversity issues. Jane will be teaching in the Sociology department at Trent University. Both Bill and Jane have made strong contributions to Canadian Studies at Mount A. Their presence on campus will be missed. At the same time, the Centre is excited to welcome some new people to the Canadian Studies "team." Dr. Matthew Hayday will become the first Winthrop Pickard Bell Fellow in Canadian Studies. Matthew comes to Mount A from Concordia where he has just completed an SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship. He is an expert on Canadian official languages and federalism and will begin teaching in Canadian Studies in Fall 2005. The Centre is also happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Ausra Burns as Adjunct Professor of Canadian Studies. In addition to her work with Canadian Studies, Ausra currently serves as Director of the Aboriginal Community Development Centre. She holds a Ph. D. from the University of Alberta and is an expert in urban design and community development. Finally, Dr. Andrew Nurse and Mrs. Joanne Goodrich will continue on in Canadian Studies in both new and old roles. Joanne will remain Administrative Assistant to the Centre for Canadian Studies, a job she has held for the last five years. Joanne's continued presence in Canadian Studies will be important as new staff become involved in the activities of the Centre. Dr. Andrew Nurse has been appointed Director of the Centre. For the last five years, Andrew has been Co-ordinator of the Academic Programme in Canadian Studies. Andrew holds a Ph. D. from Queen's University. His most recent scholarly work is an edited collection, with Dr. Raymond Blake, called Beyond National Dreams: Nationalism and Citizenship in Canada, due out this fall. Back to top

Dr. Jane Ku

Jane Ku graduated from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) where she completed her doctoral dissertation on immigrant activist women from Third World countries and how they engage with multicultural politics. She worked for several years in immigrant services and taught Women's Studies at the University of Toronto before joining Canadian Studies at Mount Allison as a postdoctoral fellow (2003-2005). During her two years here, she taught courses on Multiculturalism, Immigration and Diversity; Contemporary Canadian Issues; First Nations in Canada; Canadian Women; Canadian Women’s Cultural Expressions; and Regional Protest in Atlantic Canada. Teaching at Mount Allison has given Jane an opportunity to work with east coast scholars, community workers and activists around immigration and settlement issues. She also served as a steering committee member for the Gender Domain of the Atlantic Metropolis Centre and conducted research to explore issues faced by newcomer women in New Brunswick. It is with regret that Jane leaves Canadian Studies but she is looking forward to new challenges in the department of Sociology at Trent University in Ontario.

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Report on the Academic Programme

The last two years have seen several new developments in the teaching of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. First, the Canadian Studies Academic Programme is happy to welcome Dr. Craig Brett, Canada Research Chair in Canadian Public Policy, to the Canadian Studies teaching faculty. Craig is an authority on public policy and taxation. His presence adds depth to consideration of Canadian political and economic life.

Second, the programme has designed and introduced new courses. These include new courses on Multiculturalism and Sport in Canada. This year, Canadian Studies hopes to add new courses on federalism and public policy and the Canadian urban experience. In addition, the Academic Programme has worked closely with Mount A's Department of Continuous Learning to expand the range of its Continuing Education offerings. Over the last two years, we have developed a new correspondence course on Canadian multiculturalism and have begun to offer courses in the fall and winter semesters in Moncton. We're happy, as well, to acknowledge the important contribution made by Canadian Studies Continuous Learning faculty: Profs. Mark Davis, Geoff Martin, Manju Varma, Shelley Nelson and Elin Elgaard, all of whom have helped develop and maintain a wide series of course offerings.

Another important development is the increased use of Internet technologies with the aim of creating a "paperless" classrooms. Using Internet technologies to deliver course syllabi, readings, and other important information, the Canadian Studies programme hopes in the near future to move all its courses to a paperless format. Piloted two years ago and more fully implemented this year, the programme appears successful and is now in use in a number of Canadian Studies courses.

The Academic Programme also continues to work with the Centre and other academic units at Mount Allison University to promote the study of Canada. Last year, a number of Mount Allison students participated in the national Canadian Studies Youth Forum. We hope to send an equally strong contingent to another forum planned for this coming December. The Academic Programme has also been working with other partners on campus and beyond to improve the visibility of Aboriginal Issues on campus. In conjunction with the Centre, it helped organize a speakers series this past winter focused on aboriginal issues.

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2004

Brett, Craig. “Demographic Trends and Implications for Public Policy,” In: Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada, Our Place in Canada: Research, Volume 4, St. John's, Office of the Queen's Printer (2003) 57--87.

Blagrave, Mark. "Notatas." The Fiddlehead_ 217 (Autumn 2003) 80-90.

Boehringer, Monika. "Le hasard fait bien les choses. Entretien avec France Daigle." Special issue on France Daigle. Jean Morency (ed). Voix et Images 29.3 (87) (2004): 13-23.

Briand, Glen G. (co-author). “Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Lithium and Magnesium Derivatives of Bis(tert-butylamido)cyclodiphosph(III/V)- and (V/V)azane
Mono- and Ditellurides,” Inorganic Chemistry, (2003) 42, 525-531.

Burns, Jeffrey.“Terrene” Publication of an exhibition travelling across the country throughout 2003-2004. Robert Mclaughlin Gallery (2003) 48 pp 29 col. ill. 10.5x8.5 in softcover 0921500785 See:http://www.abcartbookscanada.com/RMcLaughlinG.html#burnsje

Campbell D.A.. (co-author).“Developmental progression of photosystem II electron transport and CO2 uptake in Spartina alterniflora, a facultative halophyte, in a northern saltmarsh.”
Canadian Journal of Botany 82 (2004) 365-375.

Fleming, Berkeley. "Three Years in Vermont: The Writing of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation," on the web site of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy: (2003) 39 pp. http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/polanyi/conf/pdf/Feming/pdf

Godfrey, W.G. "A Fortified Town and a World War Profitably Re-examined," Acadiensis, XXXIII (Spring, 2004), pp. 134-143.

Gould, O. N.. “ Telling stories and getting acquainted: How age matters.” In M. W. Pratt & B. H. Fiese (Eds.), Family stories and the life course: Across time and generations. Erlbaum (2004) .

Grant, S. Andrew (co-author). "Synthesis of a "twisted" transition-state analogue of biotin"
Tetrahedron Letters, 45, (2004 1777-1780.

Hay, Eldon. "John Burgess Calkin (1829-1918): Educator and Churchman in Truro, Nova Scotia," Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History Papers (2002), Bruce L. Guenther, ed. (Toronto: Canadian Society of Church History,( 2002), 111-128.

Herteis, E. M..“ Experiential learning portfolios in professional programmes: A Canadian perspective.” In John Zubizarreta (ed.) The learning portfolio: Reflective practice for improving student learning. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing. (2004), 100-115.

Kelly, Gemey. "A Definite Image: The Representation of the Social in Canadian Art of the 1930s and 40s," Full Space: Modern Art from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art. Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery, (2004).

Kelly Spurles, Patricia L.."Women, Gender, and Stereotypes: Concepts and Practices: Canada,” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol.2, Suad Joseph (ed.), Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, ( 2004).

Law, Stephen M. (co-author). "Unintended and Persistent Consequences of Regulation: The Case of Cable Television in Canada" Journal of Network Industries, Competition and Regulation, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2003, 389-408.

MacKay, A. Wayne (co-author). “Commissions of Inquiry Praise or Reappraise?" , Part Four: Who Did What To Whom Inquiries, Chapter 9 Public Inquiries and the Legality of Blaming: Truth, Justice and the Canadian Way, Irwin Law, Toronto (2003).

Mossman, D.J.(co-author). “Testing for fullerenes in geologic materials: Oklo carbonaceous substances, Karelian shungites, Sudbury Black Tuff” Geology (2003) 31(3), 255-258.

Semple, Stuart (2004). "What Makes Places and Landscapes Different from One Another and Why Is This Important in a Shrinking and Globalised World?” Proceedings, International Geographical Union, Commission on Geographical Education, Glasgow, pp. 408-412..

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2005

Boehringer, Monika.“Sexual/Textual Politics in Chronicles of a Death and a Birth Foretold: 1953 by France Daigle.” In Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Narratives in North America. Irene Blayer and Mark Anderson (eds). New York: Peter Lang. 2005. 151-61.

Farooqi, M. Nauman."Teaching Methods and Assessment Techniques for the Undergraduate Finance Course - A Canadian Survey" Advances in Financial Education. Volume 2, Spring 2004.

Harris, Jennifer. "Ain't No Border Wide Enough: Writing Black Canada” in Lawrence
Hill's book Any Known Blood. Journal of American Culture 27.4, 2004. (367-374)

Stephen Law (co-author). "A National Formulary for Canada" Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 30, No.4, Dec. 2004, 445-452.

Briand, Glen G. (co-author).“Monomeric, One- and Two-dimensional Networks Incorporating (2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb Building Blocks’’. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 2004, 3515-3520.

Mossman, D.J. (co-author), “Tides and their seminal impact on the geology, geography, history, and socio-economics of the Bay of Fundy, eastern Canada.” Atlantic Geology, v.40, 2004 (no. 1), 130 pages.

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