Melvin Baker (President’s Office) is Archivist-Historian for Memorial University of Newfoundland. A graduate of Memorial University, he holds a PhD in history from the University of Western Ontario. Currently he is writing a biography of Sir William Coaker and a history of the Newfoundland salt codfish trade between 1908 and 1938.

Paul Chafe is the Teaching Team Coordinator for the introductory writing course at Ryerson University. His current project, Write Here, Right Now, an e-textbook designed to maximize the flipped classroom method, is funded by a grant from eCampusOntario. He continues to write on the literature of Newfoundland and Labrador and has written articles and reviews for Newfoundland Quarterly, Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Canadian Literature.

Steven High is Professor of History at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is the author of Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere (2009) and editor of Occupied St. John’s: A Social History of a City at War (2010).

Alan G. Macpherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he taught from 1966-1993. His academic work in historical geography and historical demography concentrated on North Atlantic migration and settlement, and he is the editor of three volumes published by Memorial’s Department of Geography. He has devoted much of his retirement to researching the life of William Eppes Cormack and, as Seanachaidh (historian) of the Clan Macpherson, to consulting and publishing extensively on Clan history and genealogy. His monograph, A Day’s March to Ruin: a documentary narrative of the Badenoch Men in the ‘Forty-Five and biography of Col. Ewan Macpherson of Cluny, 1706-1765 was published in 1996.

Ingeborg Marshall is an Honorary Research Associate with iser and the author of “A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk” (1996). She was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2005) and an honorary doctor of letters degree by Memorial University (2006). When she had found the long lost Cormack papers, Alan G. Macpherson joined her in a research project on the life of William Eppes Cormack.

Morgon Mills is a Program Coordinator at the Labrador Institute, where he oversees the library and archive. He has studied and taught literature in Labrador since 2010 and recently entered the PhD program in Memorial’s Department of English. His critical work focuses on Labrador nationalism, storytelling, and aspects of Labrador’s social and demographic history.

Peter Neary is co-author (with Melvin Baker) of the Newfoundland and Labrador entry (1999-) in the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs.