Assistant Professor Tina Adcock says it’s a great honour to be counted among such a talented, dynamic group of Canadian historians. She’s especially delighted to take part in an initiative that aims to place Canadian historians and their research into conversation with more-than-Canadian histories. Having studied and worked in England and the United States, where knowledge about our country is fairly scarce, she believes that the world needs to hear less celebratory, more complicated stories about Canada’s past and present—ones that historians are well-equipped to tell, and to link to non-Canadian themes and trends, in turn.

Laura Ishiguro (MA, 2006) says that given the Institute's focus on transnational histories of Canada she feels it offers her an exciting and fitting intellectual home, since her own research investigates nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia as part of a wider British imperial world. A connection with the Wilson Institute and its network of associates presents an opportunity to share her work and learn from others in the field, and more broadly to participate in this rich academic community even over the distances that separate us.