Dr. Neatby is a professor in the History Department at Saint Mary’s University where she teaches courses in public history, the history of popular culture, of women and tourism. Her publications have included studies on women’s higher education, student protest movements in Quebec in the 1950s, commemoration and Quebec tourism. Her most recent research interest focuses on the history of popular stage entertainment in Nova Scotia at the turn of the century. She has been actively involved as a public historian having sat on Canada Post’s Stamp Advisory Committee, worked as a consultant for the Canadian Museum of History and served as the Nova Scotia representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.