She is the author of Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America (University of Manitoba Press, 2010) and has published several book chapters and articles on the history of migration, culture and transnationalism, and the history of childhood and youth. In the early summer 2010, Dr. Lorenzkowski acted as program chair of the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, welcoming 499 CHA members to Concordia University (and still wishing she had secretly enrolled her eldest child as a conference delegate to make it an even 500). – Barbara Lorenzkowski‟s current research project is a FQRSC-funded study of “The Children‟s War: Growing Up in the Port Cities of St. John‟s (Newfoundland), Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Saint John (New Brunswick)” that is based on around ninety life-course interviews.