Faculty Member, History
Associate Professor and Chair
About
P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D., is associate professor and chair of the department of history at St. Jerome’s University (University of Waterloo). As a Canadian International Council Research Fellow in 2008-09, he completed a report entitled From Polar Race to Polar Saga: An Integrated Strategy for Canada and the Circumpolar World. His recent books include Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (with Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, 2008) (winner of the 2009 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy), The Canadian Forces and Arctic Sovereignty: Debating Roles, Interests, and Requirements, 1968-1974 (2009), Battle Grounds: The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands (2007), and Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Military: Historical Perspectives (2007). His recent commentaries have appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, Waterloo Region Record, and Nunatsiaq News. Whitney’s current research includes studies of the Canadian Rangers, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, high modernism and social science in the Cold War Arctic, and Aboriginal-military relations in British settler societies.
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