Gordon Nelson is distinguished professor emeritus and chair of the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo. With over forty years of academic and field experience in environmental studies around the world, he maintains a deep and enduring interest in the creation and management of parks and protected areas. Bill Freedman received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1964. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and at the University of Haifa in Israel from 1967 to 2003. Since his retirement in 2003, he has been teaching and serving as an advisor to the English Department at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He has published two books of literary criticism, Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel (1978) and The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe's Short Fiction (2002), and three books of poetry, Being Them All (2005), Some Can (2009), and Last Things and After (2011). He has also published about fifty articles on literary criticism and theory and more than one hundred poems in various journals and magazines in the United States. Chad Day is professor emeritus, School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in water and land management, environmental impact assessment, and sustainable development. J.C. Day earned his doctoral degree in integrated water and land management from the University of Chicago. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, a graduate program at Simon Fraser University. Lucy M. Sportza teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph. James Loucky is a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. He specializes in Latin American affairs, international migration, and intercultural education. James Loucky is a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University. He specializes in Latin American affairs, international migration, and intercultural education.
