Editorial Team

General Editor (Articles, Research Notes, and Commentaries): Dr. Peter Kikkert

Dr. Kikkert is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Arctic Policy in the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government and Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Governance program at St. Francis Xavier University. His research focuses on safety, security, sovereignty, and governance issues in the polar regions.

Book Reviews Editor: Dr. Jean-Michel Turcotte

Dr. Turcotte is a historian at the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH) of Canada's Department of National Defence. Before moving to Ottawa, he completed a PhD in history at Université Laval in 2018, and then held postdoctoral fellowships in Berlin, Potsdam and Mainz in Germany. As a specialist of the Second World War and the Korean War, his research interests encompass the history of wartime captivity, humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, peacekeeping and Canadian international and military history. His first monograph, Comment traiter les “Soldats d’Hitler”?, published in 2022 by Ottawa University Press, explores the detention of German prisoners of war in Canada, Britain and the United States during the Second World War. His research has been published in the Journal of Military History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Canadian Historical Review, International History Review, Intelligence and National Security, Humanity, Bulletin d’histoire politique and Relations Internationales. At the DHH, he is currently working on the official history of the Canadian military observers in Indochina from 1954 to 1973, as well as on an Official History of Canadian Peace Support Operations, 1945-1971.

Production Editor: Walter Lewis

Walter Lewis served in the 1980s and 1990s as a member of the editorial board of FreshWater, the historical journal published by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston. He has been a member of CNRS since 1984, a member of the executive since 2012, and the production editor of The Northern Mariner / le marin du nord since 2015.

Past Editors:

Dr. William Glover was the editor of The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord from volume 11, issue 3 (in succession to Skip Fischer to volume XVI issue 2, when he was succeeded by Roger Sarty). He returned to the editor's chair (articles) with volume 25, issue 3, and passed on his duties after completing volume 30, issue 4. 

Editorial Board

Roger Sarty, Waterloo, Ontario (Chair)

Richard Gimblett, Port Hope, Ontario (Vice Chair)

Alicia Caporaso, New Orleans, Louisiana

Andrew Cook, Fife, UK

Serge Durflinger, Gatineau, Quebec

Roy Fenton, London, UK

Cheryl Fury, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Matthew Heaslip, Portsmouth, UK

Ingo Heidbrink, Norfolk, Virginia

Anna Gibson Holloway, Washington, DC

Olaf Janzen, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Lincoln Paine, Portland, Maine

James C. Rentfrow, Annapolis, Maryland

Margaret Schotte, Toronto, Ontario

Evan Wilson, Newport, Rhode Island

Tom Malcomson, Toronto, Ontario (ex officio)

Errolyn Humphreys, Ottawa, Ontario (ex officio)