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Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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Bio/Research
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Northern Environment Studies. I am a 20th-century medical historian with expertise in infectious diseases, disability, colonialism and war. I have published widely on the legacies of the Great War in Canada, including in the ...
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Bio/Research
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Northern Environment Studies. I am a 20th-century medical historian with expertise in infectious diseases, disability, colonialism and war. I have published widely on the legacies of the Great War in Canada, including in the Canadian Historical Review, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and Canadian Military History. My article, “The Indigenous Casualties of War” was awarded the Canadian Historical Review’s Best Article Prize for 2021.
I completed my PhD (2024) at Wilfrid Laurier University. I also have an MA (2016) from Wilfrid Laurier University and a BA (2015) from the University of Saskatchewan. I am currently serving as the Book Reviews Editor for the Canadian Journal of Health History.
My research interests have mostly involved understanding and untangling the complicated legacies the Great War left on Canada. I have written several articles on Indigenous veterans after the war, focusing on their political activism and the racist pension politics they faced. Currently, I am writing a book on how soldiers diagnosed with tuberculosis navigated a chronic illness from the battlefields of the Great War to post-war Canada.
In addition, I am beginning a major project on the experience of tuberculosis illness in 20th-century Canada through the eyes of the country’s first anti-tuberculosis association, the National Sanitarium Association. Funded by an NSA Scholars Award, this project will involve digitizing the records of Canada’s first two tuberculosis sanatoria, the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium (1897) and the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives (1902), and investigating how people diagnosed with tuberculosis lived with a debilitating chronic disease, as well as how Canadians employed preventive medical techniques to combat the spread of the bacteria.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
- National Sanitarium Association Scholars Award, 2025
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025
- Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024
- Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 2022
- Laurier Teaching Award of Excellence, 2022
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I completed my PhD (2024) at Wilfrid Laurier University. I also have an MA (2016) from Wilfrid Laurier University and a BA (2015) from the University of Saskatchewan. I am currently serving as the Book Reviews Editor for the Canadian Journal of Health History.
My research interests have mostly involved understanding and untangling the complicated legacies the Great War left on Canada. I have written several articles on Indigenous veterans after the war, focusing on their political activism and the racist pension politics they faced. Currently, I am writing a book on how soldiers diagnosed with tuberculosis navigated a chronic illness from the battlefields of the Great War to post-war Canada.
In addition, I am beginning a major project on the experience of tuberculosis illness in 20th-century Canada through the eyes of the country’s first anti-tuberculosis association, the National Sanitarium Association. Funded by an NSA Scholars Award, this project will involve digitizing the records of Canada’s first two tuberculosis sanatoria, the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium (1897) and the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives (1902), and investigating how people diagnosed with tuberculosis lived with a debilitating chronic disease, as well as how Canadians employed preventive medical techniques to combat the spread of the bacteria.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
- National Sanitarium Association Scholars Award, 2025
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025
- Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024
- Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 2022
- Laurier Teaching Award of Excellence, 2022
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