Our People - Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty

Research areas:

• History of modern Turkey.
• International Islam in the twentieth century.
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• Active learning in the humanities.

Research areas:

• Canadian history
• Cold War history
• History of children and youth
• Women's history

Research areas: 

• Modern Chinese history
• Russian émigré history
• History of Beijing military occupation

Research areas:

• History of children and youth in Canada.
• History of gender and families in Canada.
• The sociocultural impact of war in Canada.

Research areas: 

• Modern Canadian history.
• Rural history.

Research areas:

• French history
• Military history
• Social history

Research areas:

• History and memory (esp. regarding the Great War)
• Late 19th and 20th century Britain and France
• History of Brantford

Research areas:

• Semitic language and literature
• Ancient history
• Computer science

Research areas:

• Crime and justice in ancient Greece.
• Ancient Greek language and literature.
• Gender and sexuality in the ancient world.
• Underworlds in Contemporary Culture

Research areas:

• Russian and Soviet history, most especially in the Social History of Southern Ukraine (New Russia)
• Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky
• History of Russian Mennonites

Research areas:

• African history.
• History of disability.
• Idea and practice of development.

Research areas:

• cultural and intellectual history of East Asia
• art history of East Asia
• literary history of China and Korea
• philosophy and religions of East Asia

Research areas:

• First World War
• Medical history
• History of mental illness

Research areas:

• Canadian history
• labour and working class history
• business history
• class formation
• social movements
• labour studies
• globalization

Research areas:

• history of science, culture, and entertainment
• history of religion and science
• history of modern France

Research areas:

• Indigenous history in Canada
• Indigenous peoples and the environment
• Gender and Indigenous peoples

Research areas:

• Nineteenth-century British and Imperial history
• Cultural history
• History of masculinity
• History of mental health
• Crime and deviancy

Research areas:

• American cultural history
• Development of popular entertainment in the nineteenth century
• Vaudeville
• U.S. cultural diplomacy in the early Cold War
• History of the Blues
• Music in WWI
• Modernism and the evolution of retailing

Research areas:

• Post-1945 U.S. history.
• Political radicalism in the United States.
• American film and popular music.

Research areas:

• History of Indigenous peoples in Canada
• Indigenous-Church relations in British Columbia in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Canadian history

Research areas:

• Medieval Latin florilegia
• Preaching at the Council of Constance (1414-18)
• Digital humanities

Research areas:

• Polish history.
• History of Polish Jews.

Research areas:

• Canadian military history.
• History of the First and Second World Wars.
• Canadian foreign and defence policy.

Research areas:

• British history
• business history
• legal history

Research areas:

• Canadian foreign policy
• International peacekeeping
• identity and Canadian studies

Research Areas:

• Black Canadian history
• Immigration and migration
• Race and settler colonialism

Research areas:

• archaeology and history of Iroquoian-speaking peoples in Ontario, particularly the Wendat and Haudenosaunee
• historical archaeology of Six Nations and Mississauga in the Grand River Valley
• archaeology of the Huron-Wendat in Simcoe County
• history of the Bushmen in the Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Research areas:

• Colonial and United States history to 1880
• African American history
• Activism, rights, and citizenship in United States history
• Race in the early U.S. Midwest/Old Northwest, California, and the West

Research areas:

• Canadian history:
  • History of science.
  • Environmental history.
  • History of culture and ideas.
  • History of the Arctic.