David Duke

David (david.duke@acadiau.ca) is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics, Acadia University. His Beaubassin Project research focusses on community sustainability and resiliency both in the face of long-term environmental fluctuations and short-term severe weather events.

Stephen Henderson

Stephen (stephen.henderson@acadiau.ca) is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics, Acadia University. His Beaubassin Project research centres on the contemporary political history of the Chignecto Isthmus, encompassing transportation policy, the Maritime Union, and agricultural policy.

Barry Moody

Barry (barry.moody@acadiau.ca) is Professor in the Department of History and Classics, Acadia University. His Beaubassin Project research focusses on the peopling of the region and the way in which peoples utilized the land and in turn were affected by it. He is particularly interested in agricultural patterns, especially in marshland agriculture, and social and cultural development in the Chignecto Isthmus.

Past Student Participants in the Project include:

Katherine Akerman (Acadia B.A. Hons. History, ’08)

Guylaine Doucet (Université de Moncton)

Travis Frederiksen (Acadia B.A. History, ’11)

Alexandra Peters (Acadia B.A. History, ’11)

Sarah Story

Sarah (’11) is an honours student in the Department of History and Classics. Her honours research focusses on oral history and small community resiliency, and her work in the Beaubassin Project has centred on the oral history of the Field Station property, together with the broader cultural history of the Tantramar.

Ben Palmer

Ben (’11) recently completed his B.A. in History in Acadia’s Department of History and Classics and is returning to the program to complete his honours degree in History. He has been responsible for assimilating and organizing sources and preparing them for digitization in searchable databases. He is also particularly interested in the true nature of the “Aulac Drydock”.