Renowned urbanist and geographer David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, and one of the most cited social theorists working today. He is a prolific writer, whose wide-ranging work has been pivotal to the theorization of global and urban change.
Roberta Hawkins is an associate professor of Geography at the University of Guelph and the director of the Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD program. In these roles, Roberta teaches courses on human-environment relations, research methods, and feminist theories. Her research expertise includes ethical consumption, digital media, and environmental politics. She explores how everyday practices can lead to wider societal and environmental change. Roberta’s research is published in academic journals including Gender, Place and Culture and Geoforum. Roberta loves swimming, reading novels, and good coffee. She lives in Guelph, Ontario with her partner and two children.
Jeet Heer writes for The National Post, The Walrus, the Guardian, the Globe, and is finishing his doctoral thesis at York University.
Lisa Helps is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, University of Toronto.
Craig Heron is a professor of history at York University. One of Canada’s leading labour historians, he is the author of numerous works on Canadian history, including The Workers Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada, Booze: A Distilled History , and Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City .
Gaétan Héroux is a long time anti-poverty activist with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Steven High is a professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal where he co-founded the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He has authored a number of books and articles on structural and mass violence as well as deindustrialization as a political, socio-economic, and cultural process. He is currently the head of the transnational “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time” (DEPOT) research project which brings together researchers, museum professionals, archivists, and trade unionists across Europe and North America.
Symon Hill is a tutor in Practical Theology, a writer, a trainer, and an activist. He has written comment pieces for newspapers ranging from the Sunday Herald to the Daily Mail and contributes regularly to the Guardian website, The Friend, and Ekklesia.
John Hill was formerly the China Watch editor for Jane’s Intelligence Review, and has reported widely on security matters for a range of Jane’s publications. He is Writing Centre Coordinator at Vancouver Island University.
Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation on the Northwest Coast. Writer, artist, and militant, Gord has been involved in Indigenous resistance and anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movements for many years, often using the pseudonym Zig Zag.
Henk Hobbelink is an agronomist and member of the GRAIN collective.
John Holloway is a social theorist and professor of sociology at the Autonomous University of Puebla in Mexico. His work straddles Autonomous Marxism, Frankfurt School–inspired cultural critique, and the political thought of the Zapatistas. His ideas about revolution and social change in our era of recurrent and deepening crisis are propelled by his passionate critique of capitalist rationality.
Minnow Holtz-Carriere is a student and artist from Toronto, interested in exploring politics and social justice through media analysis and art.
Edward Hon-Sing Wong (he/him) is based in Tkaronto/Toronto. With a background in mental health practice, labour organizing, and community organizing, his work and research centers on social work abolitionism in Canada and Hong Kong, mutual aid, social work and colonialism, institutional violence in the mental health field, and organizing in Chinese communities. He is currently a lecturer at York University’s School of Social Work and a former chair of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter.
bell hooks (1952-2021) is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Celebrated as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker who divided her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world.
Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to Scandinavian parents, Irene Howard (1922-2023) devoted her writing career to combining her interest in labour and immigrant history with her love of literature. She was an English instructor and had broadcast talks for the CBC and written articles and essays for Canadian magazines and journals. She authored several books, including The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer, which in 1993 won the University of British Columbia Silver Medal for Canadian Biography and was shortlisted for a City of Vancouver Book Award and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Geoffrey C. Howes has translated books by Peter Rosei, Robert Musil, Jürg Laederach, and Gabriele Petricek, as well as stories, essays, and poems by more than thirty authors.