ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

Kellen Kurschinski Editor

Kellen Kurschinski received his Ph.D. in history from McMaster University in 2014. His research examines disability in the aftermath of the Great War.

Steve Marti is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Delaware. His dissertation examines the relationship between identity and voluntary contributions to the war effort in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Alicia Robinet is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Western University.

Matt Symes has worked and taught extensively on the history of war and memory and is co-author of five battlefield guidebooks, including Canadian Battlefields 1915-1918: A Visitor's Guide. Symes was co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp.

Jonathan F. Vance is a native of Waterdown, Ontario, and the author of many books, including award-winners Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation (2008), and A History of Canadian Culture (2009).