Profiles

Steven Bednarski

Catherine Briggs

I am currently developing two research projects. The first project seeks to return historical focus to the early years of the Nazi regime through an examination of  violence meted out by the state, and the manner by which the German populace responded to state-sanctioned murder prior to the Holocaust. The second project deals with memory and memorialization of the Nazi era as exhibited in historic sites in and around Berlin, with a focus on the Ravensbrück memorial site.

Dylan Cyr

Marlene Epp

I am interested in the history of the British Empire (19th and 20th centuries), modern Britain, and the history of global governance. I'm currently working on a project which assesses the role of the UN as a venue for debates over decolonization from the end of WWII to the early 1960s. I also teach at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Kimie Hara

I am a native of Waterloo, Ontario where I went to Lexington Public School and Lincoln Heights Public School. I then went to Waterloo Collegiate and became interested in history under teachers like Jack Sinkins and Paul Voisin. A trip to Europe with my brother and parents in 1972 was a real rush. I couldn't get enough of those Church crypts. For no reason that I can remember I took Geography or Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.

I am a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, where I specialize in Modern U.S. Cultural and Social History. My research interests include the history of American popular culture (including film, television, music and print culture), Cold War culture, advertising and consumerism, social protest movements, the Sixties, modern American conservatism, and the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Greta Kroeker

Heather MacDougall

Bruce Muirhead

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Troy Osborne

Douglas Peers

Julia Roberts

Research and teaching interests

Canadian social and cultural history

John Sbardellati

Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach

Alexander Statiev

Ryan Touhey

Jim Walker

Christopher Stuart Taylor is the University of Waterloo's Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism.

Rebecca MacAlpine is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Waterloo. She received her Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Teaching from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her current research explores the relationship between illegitimacy and gender-based violence in seventeenth century Somerset, England. These connections help to illuminate how institutional structures perpetuated and created systems of gender-based violence, which marginalized unwed mothers in early modern Somerset.

In addition to her research interests, Rebecca is also a graduate educational developer with the Center for Teaching Excellence. In this role she works with graduate educators across the six faculties at the University of Waterloo to mentor and develop their teaching practices. While engaged in educational development, Rebecca has become interested in incorporating a variety of innovative pedagogies into the classroom to develop democratic spaces to talk about hard subjects.

Education

• M.T. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
• M.A. University of Waterloo
• B.A. University of Waterlo0

Jodi Burkett is a visiting scholar in the Department of History.

A historian of Soviet Russia, my work is situated at the intersection of cultural and political history, and centres on interdisciplinary topics related to collective memory and temporal culture. I am currently working on Soviet views of the future.

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Waterloo and is also a faculty member at the Bals

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David Neufeld is a historian of religion, culture, and social life in the early modern world. His current research examines coexistence between religious majority and minority groups, using the interactions of seventeenth-century Swiss Reformed and Anabaptists as a case study.

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Preston Arens completed his PhD in History at the University of Waterloo. Preston has broad research interests that focus on forging connections between local and global histories. His most recent work on the history of the Commonwealth demonstrated how the management of meetings and other secretarial services affected the long-term evolution of the organisation.

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Dr. Maricic is a historian interested in German and Yugoslav Cold War history. His current research project focuses on the cultural relations between East Germany and the Global South.

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Talena Atfield is an Assistant Professorin History at the University of Waterloo. She is a member of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. Previously, she was Curator of eastern ethnology at the Canadian Museum of History.

My research focuses on the history of science, technology, and medical research ethics in twentieth-century North America. With an eye to understanding the social dynamics of science, my published work examines the complex political and moral dimensions of state-sponsored research conducted at government, private, and academic institutions.

Daria Dahpon Ho (she/her) is a Lecturer of History specializing in transnational China & East Asia at the University of Waterloo.

Samantha Fritz is the project manager for the Archives Unleashed Team.

I completed my History doctorate at UW in 2020 and have been teaching for the History and Arts First departments ever since. My dissertation examined the classified British nuclear civil defence programme Protect and Survive.