Andrew Burtch
Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Andrew Burtch is the Canadian War Museum’s post-1945 Historian. As curator of Gallery 4: A Violent Peace, he is responsible for all questions relating to conflicts from the beginning of the Cold War to the present day. He has worked to develop temporary and permanent exhibitions about the Afghanistan war, the Cyprus peacekeeping mission, the Korean War, military medicine, and war and media. He served as the Acting Director, Research at the Canadian War Museum from 1 April 2014-30 April 2015. His book Give Me Shelter: The Failure of Canada’s Cold War Civil Defence received the 2012 CP Stacey Award for military history.
Research Interest
Canadian military history Memory and commemoration Oral history Cold War culture Advertising and publicity history
Publications
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“Heralds of Doom: Canada’s Air Raid Siren Network,†Material Culture Review, 74/75 (Spring 2012).
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“At the Limit of Acceptable Risk: The Canadian Operational Mentor and Liaison Team, 2006-2011,†International Journal, 68 (2) (2013), 314-330.
