Dr. Benjamin Isitt is an assistant professor and postdoctoral fellow of history at the University of Victoria. He specializes in Canadian and world history, with particularly emphasis on labour and social movements.
Dr. Isitt’s research has been published in leading journals including the Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Labor and Working-Class History, and Labour/Le Travail. Two books are forthcoming in 2010: From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19 (Vancouver: UBC Press) and Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
Dr. Isitt can be reached by email at isitt@uvic.ca.
