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This series offers Public History students to chance to meet and network with practicing public historians, listen to guest lectures, and participate in hands-on workshops. As part of History 9800/9081, this series is mandatory for Public History students and usually occurs during class time, in the third hour.

Other students and alumni are welcome to join us, by emailing mhamilt3@uwo.ca.

This series is funded by the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation.

2011-12 Speakers

• Dr. Laurajane Smith, ARC Future Fellow, Australian National University
• Dana Thorne, Historian, Lambton Room
• Jennifer Nelson, National Museum of Scotland and National Library of Scotland
• Prof. Michael Brescia, Associate Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum and Fulbright Visiting Scholar
• Museum Education Workshop, Steve Mavers, Eldon House
• Sean Stoyles, Senior Researcher, CDCI
• Dr. Chris Andreae, Senior Built Heritage Specialist, Golder Associates
• Dr. Forrest Pass, Saguenay Herald, Canadian Heraldic Authority  
• Prof. Gregory Klages, former Project Manager, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
• Dr. Mark Tovey, Garrison Theatricals
• Hayley Andrew, Buckingham Palace Collections
• Prof. Julie Ellison, Imagining America

2010-11 Speakers

• Dr Alexandra Mosquin, Historical Services Branch, Parks Canada
• Dr Shanna Dunlop, Curator and Director of Operations, Fanshawe Pioneer Village
• Sean Stoyles, Senior Researcher, Canadian Development Consultants International
• Dana Johnson, Lambton Fellow, Oil Museum of Canada
• Hayley Andrew, Buckingham Palace Collections
• Fraser Dunford, Executive Director, and Ruthann Lablance, Digitization Project Manager, Ontario Genealogical Society
• Prof Steve High, Canada Research Chair in Public History, Concordia University
• Judy Chelnick, Associate Curator, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
• Dr Chris Andreae Senior Built Heritage Specialist, and Meaghan Rivard, Cultural Heritage Specialist, Golder Associates
• Jean-Pierre Morin, Treaty Historian, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• David Neufeld, Yukon and Western Arctic Historian, Parks Canada
• Dr Alexis Dolphin, Anthropology, UWO

2009-10 Speakers

• Fraser Dunford, Executive Director, Ontario Genealogical Society
• Mike Baker, Curator, Elgin County Museum
• Chris Andreae, Historica Research/Golder Associates
• Heather Moran, The Military History Project, CoMAP
• Grant Writing Workshop with Nicole Drake, Secrets of Radar Museum, London
• GIS Workshop with Don Lafreniere, Geography, UWO
• James Cullingham, Tamarack Film Productions
• Neal Ferris, Lawson Chair in Archaeology
• Meaghan Nelligan, Lambton County Fellow/Oil Museum of Canada
• Tim Compeau, PhD Candidate, UWO/Gananoque Museum Collections
• Alex Pitt, Case Coordinator, Conservation Review Board, Ontario Government
• Workshop on Oral History and Ethics with Heather George, Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology
• Don Menard, City of London Heritage Planner
• Sean Stoyles, Senior Researcher, Canadian Development Consultants International

2008-09 Guest Speakers

• Sean Stoyles, Researcher, Canadian Development Consultants International
• Don Menard, City of London Heritage Planner
• Chris Tait, Policy Group, Department of National Defence
• Krista Cooke, Assistant Curator, History, Canadian Museum of Civilization
• James Cullingham, Documentary Filmmaker, Tamarack Productions
• Chris Andreae, Historica Research Limited
• Greg Donaghy, Historical Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• Joel Ralph, Manager of Education and Outreach Programs, Canada's National History Society