The Tri-University Graduate History Program is a partnership among three programs at three universities in south-western Ontario: the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Gavin Brockett
Associate Professor, History and Religion and Culture; Co-Coordinator, Muslim Studies Option; Global Engagement Liaison, Laurier International
Research areas:
- History of modern Turkey.
- International Islam in the twentieth century.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Active learning in the humanities.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Tarah Brookfield
Associate Professor, History and Youth and Children's Studies
Research areas:
- Canadian history
- Cold War history
- History of children and youth
- Women's history
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Blaine Chiasson
Associate Professor, History; Graduate Officer, Laurier
519-884-1970 ext. 3954
Location:
Dr. Alvin Woods Building DAWB 4-138
Research areas:
- Modern Chinese history
- Russian émigré history
- History of Beijing military occupation
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier Administrators; Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Cynthia Comacchio
Professor, History - Retired
Research areas:
- History of children and youth in Canada.
- History of gender and families in Canada.
- The sociocultural impact of war in Canada.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Adam Crerar
Associate Professor, History
519.884.0710 x3292
Location:
DAWB 4-149
Research areas:
- Modern Canadian history.
- Rural history.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Darryl Dee
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- French history
- Military history
- Social history
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Peter Farrugia
Associate Professor, Society Culture & Environment, and History
Research areas:
- History and memory (esp. regarding the Great War)
- Late 19th and 20th century Britain and France
- History of Brantford
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Karljürgen Feuerherm
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- Semitic language and literature
- Ancient history
- Computer science
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Judith Fletcher
Professor, History and Ancient Studies
Research areas:
- Crime and justice in ancient Greece.
- Ancient Greek language and literature.
- Gender and sexuality in the ancient world.
- Underworlds in Contemporary Culture
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Leonard G. Friesen
Professor, History;
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
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Jeff Grischow
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- African history.
- History of disability.
- Idea and practice of development.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Christina Han
Associate Professor, History
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
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Mark Humphries
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- First World War
- Medical history
- History of mental illness
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Rob Kristofferson
Graduate Coordinator, Social Justice and Community Engagement; Program Coordinator, Labour Studies and Career Development; Professor, Social and Environmental Justice/History
Research areas:
- Canadian history
- labour and working class history
- business history
- class formation
- social movements
- labour studies
- globalization
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Sofie Lachapelle
Professor, History; Dean of Arts, Laurier
Research areas:
- history of science, culture, and entertainment
- history of religion and science
- history of modern France
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Lianne C. Leddy
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- Indigenous history in Canada
- Indigenous peoples and the environment
- Gender and Indigenous peoples
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Amy Milne-Smith
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- Nineteenth-century British and Imperial history
- Cultural history
- History of masculinity
- History of mental health
- Crime and deviancy
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
David Monod
Professor, American Social and Cultural History
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
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Darren Mulloy
Professor, History
Research areas:
- Post-1945 U.S. history.
- Political radicalism in the United States.
- American film and popular music.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Susan Neylan
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- History of Indigenous peoples in Canada
- Indigenous-Church relations in British Columbia in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Canadian history
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Chris L. Nighman
Professor, History; Coordinator, Medieval and Medievalism Studies Program
Research areas:
- Medieval Latin florilegia
- Preaching at the Council of Constance (1414-18)
- Digital humanities
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Eva Plach
Associate Professor, History
Research areas:
- Polish history.
- History of Polish Jews.
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Roger Sarty
Professor, History - Retired 2022
Research areas:
- Canadian military history.
- History of the First and Second World Wars.
- Canadian foreign and defence policy.
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
David Smith
Associate Professor, History; Chair, Department of History
Research areas:
- British history
- business history
- legal history
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Kevin Spooner
Associate Professor, North American Studies, History; Director, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC)
Research areas:
- Canadian foreign policy
- International peacekeeping
- identity and Canadian studies
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Group(s):
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Geoff Spurr
Associate Professor, History
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Barrington Walker
Professor, History; Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Laurier
Research Areas:
- Black Canadian history
- Immigration and migration
- Race and settler colonialism
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Gary Warrick
Professor Emeritus, Archeology and Heritage Studies; Retired 2020
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
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Dana Elizabeth Weiner
Associate Professor, History
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
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty
Suzanne Zeller
Professor, History
Research areas:
- Canadian history:
- History of science.
- Environmental history.
- History of culture and ideas.
- History of the Arctic.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty