John Lutz is a teacher in the Department of History as well as the Director of the Office for Community Based Research at the University of Victoria. He has developed community-based research projects, particularly through the Coasts Under Stress project where he worked in the First Nations communities of Hartley Bay and Alert Bay and through the Ethnohistory Field School Course he co-teaches every other year with the Sto:lo First Nation. He has also developed an interest in history and the new media and serves as co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History and director or partner in several history-oriented website projects.His areas of interest include the history of the Pacific Northwest, history of Aboriginal--Non-Aboriginal relations, and European colonialism in the Pacific.