Team Member

Sam Hossack
Research Fellow
Sam Hossack is a Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Waterloo’s History Department. Her dissertation examines the consequences of the changing focuses and rationales surrounding the High Arctic Relocations during the 1950s.
She also holds a Master’s of Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary where she studied the role of intelligence analysis in both the Soviet and American Afghan wars. Sam’s multidisciplinary research contextualizes historical government decision making and the social and political consequences thereof. During her studies, she held several grants, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral award and received the University of Calgary’s President’s Award.
Sam is also a passionate educator, with teaching experience in the history of human rights, legal studies, air power, and improv theatre.