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McInnes, J. Lynn
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Dr. Greg Kealey (Canadian Social History, Labour History, Security and Intelligence History) is a graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Rochester. He taught at Dalhousie University and Memorial University before accepting his current position as Vice President of Research at the university of New Brunswick. He is the founding editor of Labour/le Travail, which he edited from 1976-1997. He remains on its editorial board and is the Treasurer and Chair of the publications committee of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. He also edits the Canadian Social History Series for University of Toronto Press.He has written two prize-winning titles: Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism (1980, second ed. 1991); and Dreaming of What Might be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario (1982; winner of the Corey Prize of the AHA and CHA).Gregory Kealey had published and edited other works and publications throughout his career. Several of his articles have been published in Canadian and international historical journals. He has completed, with Reg Whitaker and Andy Parnaby, a history of the Canadian secret service entitled Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America, that is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. To date he has supervised 18 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie (2), Memorial (12), and UNB (4), and has supervised 8 post-doctoral fellows. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.