Contributors

Michael Feagan

Michael Feagan is a PhD student studying History at the University of Western Ontario. He holds an MA in History also from Western, and both a BA in History and a BEd from Brock University. His research interests encompass the History of Technology, Canadian History, and American History. His research has focused on Canadian telegraph operators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research primarily explores the connections between technology and labour in telecommunications industries and the connections between past and present communications workers.
 

David Orenstein

David retired from teaching high school mathematics in the Toronto public system in 2012. Since then, in addition to enjoying life in east end Toronto’s eminently walkable Riverdale neighbourhood, he has been focusing on researching the History of Canadian Science, especially through his involvement with CSTHA, CSHPM, CSHPS, and BSHM. His current big project is to elucidate the “Ramifications of the Early International Scientific Congresses held in Canada”. Examples include the 1924 Toronto International Mathematical Congress and the 1884 Montreal Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the Treasurer of the local historical society (RHS) and is pursuing his Torah sturdies.

À la retraite depuis 2012, David a enseigné les mathématiques au niveau secondaire dans le réseau scolaire public de Toronto. Depuis, il vit agréablement dans le quartier de Riverdale, à l’est de Toronto, et étudie l’histoire des sciences au Canada. Il s’intéresse particulièrement à l’histoire des sociétés savantes, en l’occurrence l’Association pour l’histoire de la science et de la technologie au Canada (AHSTC), la Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (SCHPS), la Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques (SCHPM) et la British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM). Il travaille actuellement sur les ramifications des premiers congrès scientifiques internationaux ayant eu lieu au Canada, que l’on pense au Congrès international de mathématiques tenu à Toronto en 1924 ou encore à la réunion de la British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) organisée à Montréal en 1884. David est également le trésorier de la Société historique locale (RHS) et étudie le Torah sur une base quotidienne.

Raphaël Pelletier

Raphaël Pelletier is a PhD student in the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and is also affiliated with the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). He holds a BA and an MA in Geography from the University of Ottawa. After working on the history of geographical education in post-1957 Quebec, his research now focuses on the history of the geographical sciences in Canada. His current projects address the socio-historical trajectory of the discipline in Canadian universities and governmental agencies since 1945. More specifically, he is interested in the sociological and epistemological implications of interdisciplinary relations between geography and other disciplines, such as geology, hydrology, planning and/or history.

Raphaël Pelletier est doctorant au programme de science, technologie et société (STS) de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) et est affilié au Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). Il est titulaire d’un baccalauréat et d’une maîtrise en géographie de l’Université d’Ottawa. Après avoir travaillé sur l’histoire de l’enseignement de la géographie au Québec depuis 1957, il se concentre maintenant sur l’histoire des sciences géographiques au Canada. Ces projets l’amènent à problématiser la trajectoire sociohistorique de la discipline dans les universités canadiennes et au sein d’agences gouvernementales depuis 1945. Il s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux implications sociologiques et épistémologiques des liens entre la géographie et d’autres disciplines connexes, comme la géologie, l’hydrologie, l’aménagement ou encore l’histoire.

Denisa Popa

Denisa Popa is a PhD student at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at the University of Toronto. She holds an MA from the IHPST and a Hon. BSc in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, also from the University of Toronto. Her research interests focus primarily on the history of women’s health in Canada, as well as past (and current) issues of health equity and access to care. Looking specifically at the history of medical institutions in Toronto, her research tracks shifts in institutional conceptualizations of women’s health, gender and health equity in Canadian medicine throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.

Denisa Popa is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada