We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. Today we’re joined by the wonderful Carly Ciufo!
Carly Ciufo is a doctoral candidate of the LR Wilson Institute for Canadian History in the Department of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Prior to returning to academia, she held positions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Tentatively titled, “Can Museums do Human Rights Work? Human Rights Museums and the People who Build Them,” her dissertation investigates the degree that those who work in, with, and against human rights museums are, in fact, doing human rights work. She is also the elected graduate student representative on the Canadian Historical Association Council, with shared responsibility for the teaching and learning portfolio.
Blair Stein is a doctoral candidate in History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. She’s especially interested in technology, the environment, identity, and the uneven experiences of modernity. Her dissertation uses Trans Canada Air Lines’ (TCA, now Air Canada) public-facing material as a way to explore postwar concerns with nature, culture, nation, and technology in Canada. Her work has appeared in Technology and Culture, the Journal for the History of Astronomy, and an upcoming book onMade Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History from UBC Press. She also blogs occasionally for the nice people at 
Dr. Anne Dance is the Academic Director of the Parliamentary Internship Programme and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Ottawa.
My dear friend Peter Scales has kindly volunteered to be my first guinea pig in this new series. 😉 Peter is a family historian and lay chaplain with the Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation, who currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Originally hailing from Salmon Arm, BC, he has degrees in both history and philosophy, and spent most of his career in the Canadian Forces Air Command (now known as the Royal Canadian Air Force). In his spare time, he likes to repair and refurbish old vehicles, especially Volkswagens, and sing in a number of local choirs, including the Linden Singers of Victoria. Peter and I first met in 2006 in graduate school at the University of Victoria.