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Dr. Tina Adcock, Assistant Professor, History

Dr. Tina Adcock: I am a cultural and environmental historian who draws inspiration from the cognate fields of historical geography and the history of science and technology. My research examines the relationship between colonialism, modernity, and the production of knowledge about Canada, with a special focus on the North. I am finishing a book-length cultural history of northern Canadian exploration between 1920 and 1965. Related research interests include the history of northern field science, travel, and tourism; American military attempts to understand northern environments in the 1940s and 1950s; and fur trapping by sojourners in northwestern Canada during the twentieth century. I have co-edited a volume on science and technology in Canadian history and have done a substantial amount of digital historical work as an editor and executive member of the  (NiCHE). Some day soon I hope to begin a new project on the environmental history of the wine industry in British Columbia鈥檚 Okanagan Valley. 

Dr. June Scudeler, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies

Dr. June Scudeler is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, cross-appointed with the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies. Her research examines the intersections between queer Indigenous studies, Indigenous literature, film, and art. She has published articles in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal,Canadian Literature, and Studies in Canadian Literature. Her chapters are included in Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature (University of Arizona Press) and Performing Indigeneity (Playwrights Canada Press). She is the co-editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures. 

She is currently researching Indigenous representation in Fear the Walking Dead and Indigenous horror and science fiction literature and film, and writing a proposal for a book about Swampy Cree artist Kent Monkman.

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Dr. Antone Minard received his PhD in Folklore and Mythology at UCLA with a focus on Celtic languages and literatures. Dr. Minard is the editor of , a two-volume encyclopedia. Many of his mythology and folk religion courses involve Scottish content (Celtic Mythology, Great Religious Texts, Religion in Context). He has also taught medieval Scottish history courses for 丁香园AV Continuing Studies, as well as courses in 丁香园AV English and Global Humanities.

(William) Rex Davidson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to a Scottish father and an English mother. He was educated in Canada, Scotland, and England.  Davidson had an eclectic working life. He was:

• a history and archeology writer for a prominent English newspaper
• a researcher for a Scottish journalist in Vancouver
• a public affairs director for a Canadian energy company
• an owner and operator of two restaurants and an inn in B.C.鈥檚 lower mainland
• a farmer with 4000 hogs in Ireland

Davidson has now retired to his home, gardens, dogs, and wood/metal-working shop on the Sunshine Coast, and to his second home in Tomatin, Scotland. He is a director and secretary of the St. Andrews Society of the City of Vancouver and a 40-year elected member of the Council of the Clan Chattan Association in Scotland, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland.

Dr. Kevin James is Scottish Studies Foundation Chair & Professor of History at the University of Guelph. Kevin studied for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, working with Professor R. J. Morris in the Department of Economic and Social History.

He is the author of Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel. Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2018; Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture. New York & London: Routledge, 2014; and Handloom Weavers in Ulster鈥檚 Linen Industry, 1815-1914. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.

His teaching and research focuses on Ireland and Britain during the long 19th century, and also encompasses trans-national themes, such as travel, tourism, and the history of the modern hospitality sector. He focuses on the experiences of Scotland and Ireland, and interactions and comparisons between them.

His current research, drawing on old hotel books, explores the social and cultural history of the inn and hotel in Victorian Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man. It extends his previous research programme, which examined "tourist development" projects in 19th-century Ireland and the intersections of gendered, racial, and class identities in Irish travel writing. He has longstanding interests in comparative modern Scottish and Irish social history and connections between them through tourism.

Ronald Sutherland is an associate member of the Research Centre and was one of the community founders of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies. He spent his working career in the international shipping industry and retired as President of the Empire Shipping Company. He has been active for many years with the Scots community in British Columbia and, especially, with the .