Friday, May 15, 2026

Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna

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Steve Hewitt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the American and Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Birmingham. He is past president of the British Association for Canadian Studies, and has published a number of books and articles related to the history of Canada and to security and intelligence in the past and present. His research interests include American, British, and Canadian security and intelligence in the past and present, including counter-terrorism, policing, spying and surveillance in the form of human intelligence through informers and undercover agents. He also studies and teaches on Anti-Americanism and Canadian history and politics. Historian; full professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa; focus on histories of sex ed., contraception and abortion; co-author with Steve Hewitt of Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018)

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