Contributors

Ashley Barlow is a clinical psychologist with Alberta Health Services in Edmonton. She received her PhD in clinical psychology with a specialization in forensics from the University of Saskatchewan, where her dissertation investigated media representations of intimate partner homicide. Ashley has a variety of research interests relating to media and the representation of pertinent psychological issues, including bullying and public perceptions of criminality. She currently works primarily with adolescents who are experiencing a variety of substance abuse, mental health, and legal issues. Ashley is also an adjunct professor in the University of Alberta’s Educational Psychology Department. Her publications include (with Mary E. Oliver) “Public Attitudes toward Sex Offenders and their Relationship to Personality Traits and Demographic Characteristics” (Behavioural Sciences & the Law, 2010).

Mikkel Dack is an assistant professor in modern European history at Rowan University in New Jersey. He received his PhD in German history at the University of Calgary and his MA in history at the University of Waterloo, with study periods at the Free University of Berlin and the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. His major research interests are in transatlantic and German cultural and psychosocial history, with a particular emphasis on German–North American relations—including the history of the Nazi sport movement in the 1930s. Several of his publications in peer-reviewed history journals and books are concerned with the postwar Allied occupation of Germany and the German response to programs of denazification, including “Crimes Committed by Soviet Soldiers against German Civilians, 1944–1945: A Historiographical Analysis” (Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2008).

Erna Kurbegović received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Calgary. She has also worked as a research assistant in the multicentre research project Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada, which was funded through a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Community-University Research Alliance (SSHRC-CURA). She is interested in twentieth-century history of Canadian medicine, the history of eugenics, and the history of public health. She has published “Eugenics in Canada: A Historiographical Survey” (Acta Historiae Medicinae, Stomatologie, Pharmaciae, Medicinae Veterinariae, 2016); and “The Influence of the Manitoba Mental Hygiene Survey, 1918” (Western Humanities Review, 2015).

Diana Mansell is a retired nursing professor at the University of Calgary, where she had been teaching the history of nursing in the Faculty of Nursing for many decades. In the past, she has also been affiliated with the Hannah Institute for the History of Nursing in Ontario. She has published Forging the Future: A History of Nursing in Canada (2003) and “ ‘We picked the wrong one to sterilise’: The Role of Nursing in the Eugenics Movement in Alberta, 1920–1940” (International History of Nursing Journal, 1998). Her research interests include leadership in Canadian nursing, and she coordinated the work for an edited collection titled Bedside and Community: 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans from the University of Calgary (2020).

Guel A. Russell is a full professor of history of medicine in the Department of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University’s Health Science Center. A specialist in the history of neurophysiology, vision neuroscience, and pre-modern history of medicine, her teaching provides a historical perspective on the health sciences, clinical practice, and the rise of bioethics and integrates the history of cognitive neuroscience and the visual arts to help promote observational, critical, and perceptual skills of future physicians. She has been on the editorial board of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the executive board of the International Society for the History of Neuroscience, and vice-president of the International Union of the History of Science and Philosophy.

Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe is the interim director of academic technology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University for a digital dissertation project “They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945–1980,” and has published in the digital humanities, history, pedagogy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Previously, she worked at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media on a number of education and public history projects and was a Penn Pre-doctoral Fellow for Excellence through Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Frank W. Stahnisch is a full professor in the Department of History and the Department of Community Health Sciences, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Classics and Religion, at the University of Calgary, and he has been a visiting professor at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds the Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary and is the author of A New Field in Mind (2020), Medicine, Life and Function (2012), and Ideas in Action (2003). He co-edited Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht (with Florian Steger; 2005), Albert Neissers “Stereoscopischer Medicinischer Atlas” (with Ulrich Schoenherr and Antonio Bergua; 2006), Bild und Gestalt (with Heijko Bauer; 2007), Ludwik Fleck—Denkstile und Tatsachen (with Sylwia Werner and Claus Zittel; 2011), Kurt Goldstein—Der Aufbau des Organismus (with Thomas Hoffmann; 2014), and Trading Zones and Boundary Concepts in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities (with Dorothy Porter, 2015).

Henderikus J. Stam is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. He was the founding editor of the bimonthly journal Theory & Psychology, which he edited for its first twenty-six years. He has published widely on the foundational and historical problems of twentieth-century psychology, including papers on the history of melancholia, the history of hypnosis, the history of psychosurgery, and the history of animal research in psychology. He is the co-author (with Erin Moss and Diane Kattevilder) of “From Suffrage to Sterilization: Eugenics and the Women’s Movement in 20th Century Alberta” (Canadian Psychology, 2013). He is a fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations; a founding member and former president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology; and former president of Division 24 of the APA (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology), as well as Division 26 (Society for the History of Psychology). In 2015, he was honoured with the American Psychological Foundation’s Joseph Gittler Award for his contributions to the philosophy of psychology.

Douglas Wahlsten is an emeritus professor of psychology in the Faculty of Science and adjunct professor in the Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He has taught psychology and behavioural neuroscience at the University of Alberta for over three decades. He has studied individual differences in brain structure and behaviour, specializing in genetic experimentation and statistical analysis of data. His publications include Genes, Brain, Function, and Behaviour (2019), “The Hunt for Gene Effects Pertinent to Behavioural Traits and Psychiatric Disorders: From Mouse to Human” (Developmental Psychobiology, 2012), “The Eugenics of John M. MacEachran Warrant Revocation of Honours” (History of Psychology and Philosophy Bulletin, 1999), “Leilani Muir versus the Philosopher King: Eugenics on Trial in Alberta” (Genetica, 1997), and “Race, Evolution and Behaviour” (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1995).

Paul J. Weindling is the Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University in England. His research focuses on the history of eugenics, public health organization, and human experimentation. From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft’s President’s Committee for the History of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft under National Socialism. He further served on the advisory boards of the British Arts and Humanities Research Council projects on German-Jewish refugees and on the history of the Robert Koch-Institute. He is currently on the advisory board of the German Society for Psychiatry project on psychiatrists in Nazi Germany and a member of the project on the history of the German Foundation for Memory, Responsibility and the Future. He has advised the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Swiss Research Council, and other national funding agencies. He edited Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust (2014) and is the author of John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust (2010), Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent (2004), and Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890–1945 (2000).

Robert A. Wilson is a full professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, and has been a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta for twenty-five years. He has also been the project director and principal investigator of the SSHRC-CURA project “Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada.” His research interests include philosophy of mind and cognitive science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of science. He is the co-author (with Andy Clark) of “How to Situate Cognition: Letting Nature Take Its Course,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (ed. M. Aydede and P. Robbins; 2009). His work has been honoured with a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada. He recently published The Eugenics Mind Project (2018).

Gregor Wolbring is an associate professor in the Community Health Sciences Department at the University of Calgary. His research interests include ability and ableism, disability studies, social, ethical, legal, economic, and cultural issues surrounding science and technology, and human rights issues. He is the author of Ability Privilege: A Needed Addition to Privilege Studies (2014), has edited “What Sorts of People Should there Be?” (Journal of Disability, Community, and Rehabilitation, 2013), and has published widely in numerous journals, including Nature, Neuroethics, Nanoethics, Review of Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Social Robotics, Canadian Journal of Public Health, and Journal of Personalized Medicine. His work has been honoured with multiple teaching awards from the University of Calgary and, in 2013, a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2017, he was awarded the CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture from the Canadian Disabilities Studies Association.

Marc Workman participated in the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada project as a research assistant while working on a PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. A long-time disability rights activist, he has spent the last ten years volunteering for disability organizations including the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, and Barrier Free Canada. Professionally, Marc has held senior roles within the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and he currently works as an executive advisor for the Government of Alberta. Additionally, he regularly guest lectures on disability-related topics at MacEwan University and the University of Alberta. He has published the “Report on the Inaugural Conference for Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada” (2010) and reviewed Jonathan Glover’s Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design for Ethics — An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2007.