Steven Bednarski (born 1973) is a Canadian historian of the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment, crime, sex, gender, and microhistory. He is notable for being awarded an exceptionally high level of public research funding and for piloting a trans-disciplinary international research partnership network. As a child, Bednarski also worked in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario as an actor. Personal life Steven Bednarski was born in 1973 to Anglophone parents in Montreal. His mother was a homemaker and his father a secondary school mathematics teacher. He has two younger brothers. During his childhood, changes to the language laws of Québec meant he was part of the first generation of English-speaking Montreal school children afforded the opportunity to attend public school equally in both English and French within the then-English language Catholic School Board, the now-defunct Montreal Baldwin-Cartier English Catholic School Board. In 1989, Bednarski's family moved from the Canadian francophone province of Québec to the predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario. Bednarski currently lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with his wife and children. Child actor At the age of eight, Bednarski's mother registered him and his siblings with a local modelling agency and this opportunity soon led the siblings to active careers as child actors. His most notable roles were the English voices of Astro Boy (produced by Montreal's Cinelume Studios in 1985), Roobear in Adventures of the Little Koala, Nobi (AKA Sidney) in the Cinar English dub of Doraemon, and Chad in Sailor Moon. At the time Astro Boy was dubbed from Japanese into English, Canadian voice-over regulations did not require producers to list voice actors' credits at the end of their productions. As a result, although his voice aired for over a decade and a half on TV, VHS, and DVD, he received no official recognition for his contribution and did not receive royalties. By the time Sailor Moon aired, however, ACTRA (the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists) had negotiated credits for dubbing. As a result, his name does appear in the list of credits for Sailor Moon. His brothers Robert and Andrew are also actors. He also voiced Rosey's scientific archenemies Jeffrey and Matthew in the ABC animated series Little Rosey. Bednarski also appeared on camera in a number of film and television productions. His first lead role on camera was for a National Film Board of Canada short film, The Cap, where he co-starred