Dr. Sioban Nelson is a nurse historian and an internationally known ‘thought leader’ in Nursing. Professor and Dean of Nursing at the University of Toronto since 2005, she was recruited from the University of Melbourne where she was Head of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing Policy and Professional Issues. Known for her groundbreaking scholarship that demonstrated how nursing emerged as a prototype of a new 19th century phenomenon, a female profession, she has author many books, book chapters and articles, and edited the international journal, Nursing Inquiry since 1998. She co-founded the Nursing History Special Interest Group of the International Council of Nurses to counter the western and Anglophone bias in the understanding of the history of the professions.