Dr. Sara Spike

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Email: sara.spike@smu.ca

Dr. Sara Spike (settler, she/her) is a cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. She received her PhD from Carleton University with a dissertation about the history of vision in late nineteenth-century rural Nova Scotia, and followed this with a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of New Brunswick on the cultural history of fog in Atlantic Canada. The latter is still the focus of her current research and book project. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, but she lives in Mi'kma'ki/ Nova Scotia, where she is a university instructor and historical consultant.