Naomi Alisa Calnitsky completed a Master of Arts in History as a Commonwealth Scholar in 2008 at the University of Otago and a PhD in Canadian and Mexican History at Carleton University in 2017. She is currently working on a book-length project on seasonal labor migration stories from North America and the Pacific titled Seasonal Lives: Twenty-First Century Approaches and a second book dealing with histories of Mexican farm labour migration to Canada in the 20th and 21st centuries, titled The Fields Are Dressed in the Spring: The Mexican Farm Worker in the Canadian Imagination, forthcoming with UBC Press.