Part-time Undergraduate Faculty
Please note that the offices and reading rooms of the School for the Study of Canada in Kerr House are currently closed to public access. If you would like to make a virtual appointment with one of our faculty or staff, please send them an email.
The School benefits enormously from the dedicated work of part-time staff who bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the classroom.
Derek Newman-Stille
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 4551H PTBO WI 2021
Mike Perry
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 2090H FA 2020
Barrister & Solicitor, R.S.W., B.A. (Queen's), LL.B. (Windsor), LL.M. (Duke), M.S.W. (York), Ph.D. (Trent, in progress)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: michaelperry@trentu.ca
Research interests: impacts of climate change on modern slavery (human trafficking); Canadian law and social policy especially critical legal studies, anti-oppressive practice, and legal activism; and public leadership for transformative, progressive change
Select Publications:
"'That Happens Up There?' Human Trafficking and Security in the North American Arctic," in Dwayne Menezes and Heather Nicol, eds, 2019. The North American Arctic: New Trends in Regional Security. (London: University College London Press, 2019).
The Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labour and Modern Slavery, by Prabha Kotisawarn, ed. Review. (2008) 82 Labour/Le Travail 304.
"'The Tip of the Iceberg': Human Trafficking, Borders, and the Canada-U.S. North (2018) 42 Canada-U.S. Law Journal 204.
"Lining Up at the Border: Renewing the Call for a Canada-U.S. Insolvency Convention in the 21st Century" (2000) 10:2 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 469.
"Beyond Dispute: A Comment on Human Rights Adjudication" (1998) 53:2 Arbitration Law Review 50.
Heather Shpuniarsky
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 2256H WI 2021
Brian Thorn
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies: CAST 3011H WI 2021 DUR & PTBO
B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Simon Fraser), PhD (Trent)
Research Interests: Women's History, North American Political History, Right and Left-Wing Women, Right and Left Movements of protest, Conservative thought and ideology.
Selected Publications:
Book:
From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“A Colourful Crowning Ceremony: Images of Class, Gender, and Beauty in World War II-era Canadian Communism.” Labour/Le Travail 80 (Fall 2017): 185-211.
“Clare Boothe Luce and American Feminism: World War II and Beyond.” ANAMNESIS Journal. 22 April 2017 (online edition).
“Clare Boothe Luce and the Evolution of American Conservatism.” ANAMNESIS Journal. 13 February 2017 (online edition).
“Women are Truly Wonderful in Their Ingenuity: Radical Housewives and Consumer Protest in the Cold War Era.” Left History 18:1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 9-36.
David Tough
Course Instructor, Canadian Studies, CAST 1100H Web FA 2020, CAST 3665H DUR FA 2020
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, (705) 748-1817
Email: davidgtough@trentu.ca
Research interests: Canadian political history; rhetoric and political parties; income taxation and the welfare state; poverty and inequality; higher education; historiography and historical writing.
Recent publications:
“‘At Last! The Government’s War on Poverty Explained:’ The Special Planning Secretariat, the Welfare State, and the Rhetoric of Poverty in the 1960s” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Volume 25 #1 2015.
“A Better Truth: The Democratic Legacy of Resistance to Conscription in the First World War” in Worth Fighting For: Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror, ed. Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney (Between the Lines, 2015).
“‘The rich … should give to such an extent that it will hurt’: ‘Conscription of Wealth’ and Political Modernism in the Parliamentary Debate on the 1917 Income War Tax” Canadian Historical Review Volume 93 #3 September 2012.