Arctic justice :

"Shelagh Dawn Grant – historian, researcher, author, editor and adjunct professor – taught history and Canadian Studies at Trent University for seventeen years. After undergraduate studies in nursing science at the University of Western Ontario and time out to raise a young family, she returned to university earning a Hons. BA in History and Canadian Studies in 1981 and a Masters Degree in History in 1983. With further archival research in London and Washington, she expanded her master’s thesis into her first book, Sovereignty or Security? Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1939-1950 (UBC Press 1988). Academic research drew her further and further north—to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and eventually Baffin Island and Greenland. A study group with the former Canadian Institute for International Affairs took her to remote Arctic locations such as the Svalbard Islands and in Greenland: Station Nord, Meistervig and the USAF Thule Air Base. Her second book, the award-winning Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder — Pond Inlet, 1923 (MQUP 2002), required yearly trips to Baffin Island for oral history interviews and follow-up discussions. Later she returned to Pond Inlet to supervise an Inuktitut translation of her manuscript on the history of Mittimatalik, published in 2008 by the Nunavut Department of Education for use in schools and elders centres. Teaching part-time allowed her to continue researching and writing, which resulted in numerous academic papers published in scholarly journals. Shelagh was the first historian and first woman to receive the Northern Science Award (1996) and was active on various Inuit policy advisory committees, editorial boards and northern scholarship committees. She has also presented papers at a number of international conferences: in Australia, Central Siberia, England, Scotland, Iceland and the United States. In November 2011, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and in June 2012 awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Travel and teaching inter-disciplinary courses reinforced the importance of a comparative approach in understanding both historical and current issues, as did a trip ‘down under’ as co-editor of Federalism in Canada and Australia. Inevitably thirty years of research on Arctic sovereignty would be compiled into a unique comparative history of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland — Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010). Although now retired from regular teaching, Shelagh Grant is still a member of the adjunct faculty in the Canadian Studies Department and a research associate of the Frost Centre for Graduate Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario." - Provided by https://www.opencanada.org/contributors/shelagh-grant