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A graduate of Trent University (’84) and former member of Peter Robinson College, Jim Daschuk has an Master of Arts and Doctoral degree in Canadian History from the University of Manitoba. His research experience includes the fields of medicine, climate change and population health. He is currently a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina. His book, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, published by the University of Regina Press (2013) won five Saskatchewan Book awards and three prizes from the Canadian Historical Association, including the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best scholarly book in Canadian history and was be awarded the Governor General Award for Scholarly Achievement at the Annual Governor General History Awards in November 2014. In 2009, "A Dry Oasis: The Northern Great Plains in Late Prehistory," in Prairie Forum 34 (Spring 2009) was published, and James has also co-authored "Treaties and Tuberculosis: First Nations People in Late 19th Century Western Canada, A Political and Economic Transformation." Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 23 (2006): 307-330.

"An Examination of Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains." In G.P Marchildon, ed., The Early Northwest: History of the Prairie West Series. Volume 1. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2008. 35-47.

Paul Gingrich was born on March 7, 1942 in Chatham, Ontario. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1964 and a Masters of Arts in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1966. From 1966 to 1971 he attended the University of Michigan, studying in the Department of Economics.

Paul’s first teaching experience was as a summer instructor at Frontier College in 1964. From 1966 to 1969 he was a research assistant in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and in 1967 was a summer research assistant at The Population Council in New York City. He taught Economics as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Michigan and as a sessional instructor at Henry Ford Community College from 1969 to 1971. In 1971-72 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Later in 1972 he joined the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, attaining the rank of Professor in 1992, and retiring in 2007.

Paul taught many sociology courses at the University of Regina. His papers and research focus on multiculturalism and the understanding of it, refugees, immigration and integration, and people and community in rural Saskatchewan. He has also explored population and labour force issues, such as incomes of young people and families.

Paul’s administrative work includes membership in the University of Regina Executive Council and the Research Ethics Board. He served as Chair of the University of Regina Faculty Association and Chair of the Association’s Grievance Committee as well as being a member of the Executive and Internal Management Committees of the Association. For the Department of Sociology and Social Studies Paul was a member of thirteen Honours committees and thirty Graduate committees, and was external examiner for five Master of Arts oral examinations. He was a member of the Department’s Student Research Fund and has been responsible for Library ordering. In the Regina community Paul was a member of the board of the Regina Open Door Society and has been a contributor to the media on social and economic issues.
He was a member of the Prairie Metropolis Centre. He authored or co-authored numerous papers and articles. His membership in Professional Organizations include the Canadian Population Society and the Canadian Sociological Association. He has given many public talks on population and economics. Paul is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Regina.

Paul’s website is: http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/

Born in Shantung province, China, October 16, 1930, Hsieh began his academic career at National Taiwan University. After obtaining his Bachelor of Art degree in history in 1954, he worked as a teaching assistant in the History Department, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. In 1959 he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Asian history, where he earned his Ph. D. degree. Under the guidance of Professor Hilary Conroy, he wrote a dissertation titled Sino-French War, 1883-1885, with emphasis on the war’s diplomatic front. He began to teach at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine before completing his dissertation in 1968. He taught Asian history at the University of Regina from 1965 until his death.

In addition to teaching Hsieh worked hard to stimulate Regina's interest in Chinese affairs. As a result, there were many exchange programs between the University of Regina and institutions in the People's Republic of China. From these academic relations came educational, cultural, and economic programs. His efforts greatly contributed to Canadian-Chinese relations. He won appreciation from many scholars and officials both in Canada and China. He served as a special advisor to the president of Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia.

Hsieh died unexpectedly of injuries sustained from an automobile accident in Taiwan on June 8, 1997.

Howard Leyton-Brown was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1918. He began violin lessons at the age of seven and at twelve, obtained a three year university scholarship, eventually graduating with a Diploma of Music form Melbourne University. In 1937, Leyton-Brown moved to England with his mother and sister, where he continued to study the violin. He also went on to study in Germany and Belgium.

With the advent of the Second World War, Leyton-Brown joined the Royal Air Force, spending time in Estevan, Saskatchewan as an instructor as well as flying with the bombing command, which led to his receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1948, Leyton-Brown joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as deputy concertmaster, eventually becoming concertmaster.

Doubts about the future of the London Philharmonic brought Leyton-Brown back to Estevan where he began to search for employment in Canada's music world. In 1952 he became head of the string department at the Conservatory of Music in Regina. In 1955, he became Director of the Conservatory, a position which he occupied until his retirement in June of 1986. His activities within the Department of Music at the University of Regina led to a Full Professorship in 1966.

Leyton-Brown has been an integral part of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Symphony from 1960 to 1971 and becoming concertmaster in the mid-seventies. In 1971, Leyton-Brown completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Musical Performance at Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the same time Leyton-Brown had been appointed to the Canada Council for a four year term (1971 to 1974) and was also actively involved with the Saskatchewan Arts Board as a member from 1966 to 1972, and as Director in 1967

Leyton-Brown also taught at the American Congress of Strings in Cincinnati in 1984 and Dallas in 1985 and in 1986 he conducted the South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra during its tour of China and Japan. During his career, Howard Leyton-Brown has been broadcast as a soloist with orchestra and in recital on CBC radio as well as in Australia, England, Iceland and Switzerland. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including two years of weekly chamber-music programs for CKCK TV in Regina.

Leyton-Brown was invested into the Order of Canada on April 29, 1987 and retired professor emeritus from the University of Regina in 1988, he received the Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1991, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 1996, and in 2002 was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.

Howard Leyton-Brown passed away in 2017.

Oscar Drumheller Seawell was born in 1923 in Yakima, Washington State, United States of America. He began studies at Whitman College in Washington in 1941 with a military draft deferment to study physics. In 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the Army Specialized Training Program to study advanced Civil Engineering for a school year at the University of Utah. After serving in the United States and on Guadalcanal, the Philippines and Japan, he was discharged in January 1946 and returned to studies at Whitman College and worked as part-time assistant physics laboratory instructor.

In 1947 he received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) with major subjects physics and mathematics from Whitman College and took post-graduate civil engineering classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge obtaining a Masters degree in Science in Civil Engineering in 1948.

While employed by General Electric Company analysing nuclear reactors Seawell also attended the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and from 1964 to 1970 he took additional nuclear and mechanical engineering classes part-time, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Through continuous part-time training which began in 1949 as an Officer in the Corps of Engineers in the United States Army Reserve Seawell rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and over time, was engaged in duties as a construction engineer, combat engineer company commander, public works and utilities officer, and sanitary engineer. Through correspondence courses Seawell earned a Diploma from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1974.

Seawell worked in the construction industry for a short time and was a nuclear engineer for eleven years. His work at that time mainly concerned nuclear reactor design and safety, and performing systems and operations analyses with an emphasis on creating computer simulations which were, between 1948 and 1989 quite diverse.

Seawell’s teaching career included work as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho from 1952 to 1956, where he met and married Bonnie Scott in 1953. In 1956 they moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked as a nuclear engineer for Atomics International and The Marquardt Corporation. In 1956/57 and again in 1961/62 Seawell taught a nuclear reactor design extension class for the University of California, Los Angeles and in 1964 he and Bonnie moved to Palo Alto, California, where he taught engineering classes at San Jose State College.

He was then employed as Principal Analyst with Computer Usage Development Corporation and as Senior Operations Analyst in the Systems Applications Group of Stanford Research Institute.

In 1971 Oscar moved his family to Regina having accepted an appointed as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (known as the University of Regina since 1974). After initiating a short-lived Mechanical Engineering program he then planned and initiated a new Industrial Systems Engineering program, and his title was changed to Professor of Systems Engineering. He taught a variety of subjects from introductory through upper level engineering for students in other fields as well as Industrial Systems Engineering.

In 1960 Seawell was the Task Force Chairman for the American Standards Association with a mandate to prepare of a general guide for analysing nuclear reactor accidents. He was Chairman of the Los Angeles Section of the American Nuclear Society for 1963/64 and Vice-Chairman for the University of Regina Faculty Association Executive Committee in 1975/76 and the Chairman in 1976/77. Seawell was the Engineering Curriculum and Program Committee Chairman from 1972 to 1980 and the Chairman of the President’s Budget Advisory Committee in 1979/80, and Committee Chairman for the Faculty Association in 1988/89.

Seawell retired as Professor Emeritus in 1989 but continued to teach Engineering part-time through 1993. He passed away in September 2018, followed by his wife Bonnie in January 2020.

Kathleen Wall was born in Michigan and took both her Bachelor’s and her Master’s degrees in English Literature at the University of Michigan. She moved to Winnipeg in 1973 with her first husband, Dan Geminder, who was a trumpet player with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Told that “there were no jobs for English PhDs,” in 1976, she nevertheless pursued this degree at the University of Manitoba, working with Evelyn Hinz on a study of the Callisto myth that ranged from Renaissance sources to Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, tracing the way in which changes in women’s circumstances were accompanied by changes in the ways authors used the myth and its variants. Her thesis, defended in 1984, was latter accepted by McGill-Queen’s University Press and published as The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature in 1988. During her Ph.D. studies she began writing poetry more deliberately and published her second book, Without Benefit of Words with Turnstone Press in 1991.

In the meantime, she had secured (despite the Graduate Chair’s advice) a full-time job at Winnipeg Education Centre in 1982, an off-campus program of the Faculties of Social Work and Education that was designed to educate and train inner city teachers and social workers. WEC’s students were both dedicated and underprepared; as well, the program was, like many marginalized endeavours, under-funded. She ended each day feeling that something had been left undone, some student left unhelped. As well, she was the only English professor for the program, which left her feeling isolated. When she and her first husband separated, she began looking for jobs elsewhere, coming to the University of Regina in 1990, where she found a supportive environment she could not have predicted. The English Department at the University of Regina values the creative as well as the academic work of its faculty. In 2001, Wall won the University’s Alumni Award for Teaching; she gives significant credit to those dedicated and underprepared students at WEC for teaching her how to teach.

The Theory Group organized by Ray Mise and attended by Ken Probert, Bernie Selinger, Aydon Charleton, and Jeanne Shami, among others, introduced her more formally to narratology, which she had been exploring rather directionlessly on her own. Thus her early essays after the Callisto book explored the dimensions of the unreliable narrator in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day as well as other works (from As for Me and My House to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) that helped provide a framework for the way the reader makes sense of the narrative in the face of the narrator’s unreliability. This was followed by an essay on two short stories by Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood and their use of the mise en abyme for exploring the challenges to women’s lives in the seventies. Still working in the vein of feminist criticism, Wall began teaching very popular classes in Jane Austen and less popular class in Virginia Woolf. She initially used her knowledge of narratology to puzzle out Woolf’s use of form in A Room of One’s Own (Journal of Narrative Theory 1999) and Jacob’s Room (Texas Studies in Literature and Language). The latter essay would soon appear in the Norton Edition of Jacob’s Room. Sought out for her skills as a teacher of composition by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, she significantly revised Barbara Fine Clouse’s Patterns for a Purpose and added Canadian readings in 2010. Her work on Woolf led her to explore aesthetics and theories of beauty. She published one of the first critical essays, “Ethics, Knowledge, and the Need for Beauty” on two popular novels, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in the University of Toronto Quarterly in 2008.

In the meantime, Wall continued to write poetry, winning a John V. Hicks Major Manuscript Award for the manuscript that would become Time’s Body (Hagios Press) in 2005. Her second novel Blue Duets, was published by Brindle & Glass in 2010; both the poems and the novel were shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award. (Her first novel, entitled Still Lives, remains appropriately in a box, now in the archives, to be resurrected when she discovers what its heroine wants). Wall has attended workshops and colloquia with Lisa Moore and Robert Kroetsch (2007), Don McKay (2013), and Ken Babstock (2015). After 24 years in the English Department, Wall retired in 2014 to write. At this time (August 2015), she is at work on a book of ekphrastic poems currently being edited by Don McKay; on a study of Virginia Woolf’s aesthetics that grew out of the earlier articles, entitled Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Engagement; and on a third novel, Soul Weather. Lengthy essays on minimalism and craftsmanship wait in the wings. She keeps a popular blog entitled “Blue Duets.”

Bernard Wilhelm was born in Switzerland in February 1927. In 1950 he obtained a degree in Secondary Education from the University of Neuchatel in Berne and a Doctor of Letters degree in 1966 from the University of Berne. Wilhelm married Rita Marie Wilhelm (Finnerty) in August 1953 and had three children. With 15 years of teaching experience in Switzerland, Bernard moved the family to Regina in 1967 when he became employed at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages. He became an Associate Professor in 1970 and was Acting Director of the Bilingual Center from 1970 to 1972, a pioneer of French distance education teaching at the University and attained the rank of full professor in 1978, also serving as Director of the Bilingual Center until 1981.

Wilhem has been broadcast on radio and has published several books in the French language, among them: Anthologie littéraire fransaskoise et de l'Ouest canadien in 2000; S.V.P.: Racontez-nous votre vie / récits recueillis et présentés par Bernard Wilhelm published in 2001; Saskontario: projet de communication a distance en vue du developpement communautaire de deux localities francophones en milieu isole in 1982; and Zenon Park: un village en Saskatchewan in 1976. Wilhelm has also published with writing partners Pierre-Yves Mocquais and André Lalonde on Colloque du Centre d'études Franco-Canadiennes de l'Ouest (3e : 1983 : Regina, Sask.) Langue, la culture et la société des francophones de l'Ouest, preparing text for the publication released in 1984.

Wilhelm passed away in November 2016.