The COHDS affiliates below have expressed interest in being contacted by media for interviews related to their research areas. Click on their names to learn more about them
Stefan Berger
Email: stefan.berger@rub.de
Position: Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Languages: English, German
Geographic areas of expertise: Germany, Europe, World
Thematic areas of expertise: trade unions, working-class parties, industrial heritage, coal and steel industry, deindustrialization, reindustrialization, neoindustrialization, British-German relations, History of Historiography, Historical Theory
Brian Rosa
Email: brian.rosa@uab.cat
Position: Research Fellow, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Languages: English, Spanish
Geographic areas of expertise: Spain, United Kingdom
Thematic area of expertise: Industrial heritage
Gregory Wilson
Email: gwilson@uakron.edu
Position: Distinguished Professor, University of Akron
Languages: English
Geographic area of expertise: United States
Thematic area of expertise: US deindustrialization, Ohio and Midwest, post-1945 US political trends
Guillaume Tremblay-Boily
Email: tremblay-boily@iris-recherche.qc.ca
Position: Researcher at Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques
Languages: French, English
Geographic area of expertise: Québec
Thematic areas of expertise: Unions, industrial environmental transition, inequalities, impacts of deindustrialization
Chad Montrie
Email: chad_montrie@uml.edu
Position: Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: United States, Canada
Thematic areas of expertise: Labour, working class environmentalism in the United States and Canada, race and racism in the United States
María Esperanza Rock Núñez
Email: esperanzarock@gmail.com
Position: Humboldt Research Fellow, programme for Experienced Researchers, Institute for Social Movements Ruhr University of Bochum
Languages: Spanish, English
Geographic areas of expertise: Chile
Thematic areas of expertise: Interdisciplinary industrial heritage studies (coal industry), cultural studies and transformation, collaborative artistic and community-based methodologies with a critical and decolonial approach
Steven High
Email: steven.high@concordia.ca
Position: Professor of History, Concordia University
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: United States, Canada, UK
Thematic areas of expertise: economy, politics, trade unionism, populism, capital flight
Emiliano Aguilar
Email: eaguilar@nd.edu
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: U.S. Midwest/Rust Belt
Thematic areas of expertise: Steel industry, Industrial Heritage, Steelworkers, Industrial Commemoration
Iuditha Balint
Email: ibalint@stadtdo.de
Position: Director, Fritz Hueser Institute for Literary and Cultural Work Studies
Languages: German
Geographic areas of expertise: Germany, Austria, Swiss Confederation
Thematic areas of expertise: literature of the working world (since the 18th century until present), German working class literature (since the 19th century), class relations in literature
Sherry Linkon
Email: sherry.linkon@georgetown.edu
Position: Professor of American Studies, Georgetown University
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: United States
Thematic areas of expertise: working-class culture, social costs of deindustrialization, cultural responses to deindustrialization, how work is changing
Nora Küttel
Email: kuettel@uni-bremen.de
Position: Postdoctoral reseacher, University of Bremen
Languages: German, English
Geographic areas of expertise: Germany, United States
Thematic areas of expertise: shipbuilding, art (in deindustrial cities)
Petra Dolata
Email: pdolata@ucalgary.ca
Position: Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Languages: English, German
Geographic areas of expertise: Canada, Germany
Thematic areas of expertise: deindustrialization and energy (transition)
Francisco Rivera
Email: f.riveraamaro@utoronto.ca
Position: Research Associate, University of Toronto
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Geographic areas of expertise: Chile
Thematic areas of expertise: Industrial Heritage, Mining Industry
Lucie K. Morisset
Email: morisset.lucie@uqam.ca
Position: Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Université du Québec à Montréal
Languages: French, English
Geographic areas of expertise: Quebec, Canada, France, areas covered by the Conventions for the safeguarding of heritage
Thematic areas of expertise: Historic preservation, built environment, company towns, housing
David Beorlegui
Email: david.beorlegui@udima.es
Position: Adjunt Teacher, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Geographic areas of expertise: Spain
Thematic areas of expertise: toxics, gentrification, social movements
Amber Ward
Email: atward56@gmail.com
Position: Tutor, University of St Andrews
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: Britain, Scotland
Thematic areas of expertise: (ex-)industrial communities, working-class culture, working-class women and feminism, migration in C20 Britain, Scottish/British politics and populism
Lachlan MacKinnon
Email: Lachlan_MacKinnon@cbu.ca
Position: Associate Professor, Cape Breton University
Languages: English
Geographic areas of expertise: Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia
Thematic areas of expertise: coal industry, regional development, trade unions, industrial heritage
