Journal of Defense Management
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Whitney Lackenbauer

Biography

Whitney Lackenbauer, is associate professor and chair of the department of history at St. Jerome’s University (University of Waterloo), Waterloo, Ontario.  He is also a fellow with the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, the Arctic Institute of North America, and the Wilfrid Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2010 and a Canadian International Council Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in 2008-09.  His recent books include Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security and Stewardship (2011), Canada and Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives (2011), A Commemorative History of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Military (2010), and Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (2009). 

 

Research Interest

civil-military relations, Military basing and decommissioning decisions, Securitization theory, Conflict and cooperation in the circumpolar world, Indigenous-military relations, Canadian foreign and defence policies
Twentieth century military history