Jonathan Vance

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Investigating Historian and specialist in our Canadian records

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Jonathan F. Vance is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario, and was recently named a Premier's Research Excellence Award winner. A native of Waterdown, Ontario, he holds degrees from McMaster University, Queen's University, and York University, and taught at a variety of institutions before coming to Western in 1997. He is the author of Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century (1994), Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination (2002), A Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape" (2003), The Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment (2006), and Building Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation (2006). His most recent books are Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation (2008), A History of Canadian Culture (2009), and Bamboo Cage: The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 (2009).