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Professor Bednarski is a social historian of crime and gender specializing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His geographic foci are Provence and the south of England. In Provence, he reads criminal trials and notarial registers to see the plots and plans of ordinary townspeople. From them he extracts lessons on wife assault, child abuse, adultery and illicit sexuality, gender norms, pedagogy, and women’s healthcare. In England, he contemplate changes to natural environment and their impact on lived human experiences, particularly in and around Herstmonceux manor, East Sussex.

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Steven Bednarski
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Americas
  • conflict and security
  • critical security studies
  • disarmament
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James Blight | janet Lang
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • African History 
  • Critical Archive Studies 
  • Gender History 
  • Histories of law, crime, punishment, and prisons
  • The politics of public memory, reconciliation, and reparations
  • Social History
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Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Mennonite history
  • gender studies 
  • the history of immigrants and refugees in Canada
  • the history of food and culture
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Marlene Epp
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • British Empire
  • Modern Britain
  • International relations
  • History of global governance
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Dan Gorman
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Modern and Contemporary International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Region
  • Cold War
  • Japanese-Russian/Soviet Relations
  • East Asian Regional Conflicts and Multilateralism
  • Japanese Politics and Diplomacy
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Kimie Hara
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Canadian military history
  • Peacekeeping
  • Afghanistan
  • Canadian military leadership
  • Digital history and mapping
  • 120 Squadron, Royal Air Force (1941-1945)

Over the last decade, I have led veterans, their families, teachers and students to study the battlefields of Northwest.

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Geoffrey Hayes
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas: 

  • 1980s
  • American film
  • American identity/patriotism
  • The American West
  • Anticommunism
  • California history
  • Conservatism
  • Nonviolence
  • Popular culture
  • Ronald Reagan/the Reagan presidency
  • Social protest movements 
  • Veterans
  • The Vietnam War
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Andrew Hunt
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Late Medieval France
  • Medieval Law, Crime, and Society
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Jolanta Komornicka
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University of Waterloo Faculty
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Greta Kroeker
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas: 

  • History of Education
  • Oral History
  • Women’s History
  • History Education
  • Social Studies Curriculum
  • Citizenship Education
  • Global Citizenship Education
  • Teachers and Teaching
  • Restorative Approaches to Education
  • Sociology of Education
  • Child and Youth Studies
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Feminist Theory
  • Democratic Theory and Schooling
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Kristina R. Llewellyn
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Canadian history
  • History of medicine in Canada
  • Health and disease
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Heather MacDougall
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • the use of web archives by historians
  • postwar Canadian history
  • video games
  • childhood studies
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Ian Milligan
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University of Waterloo Faculty
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Bruce Muirhead
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University of Waterloo Faculty
jane.nicholas@uwaterloo.ca
519-884-8111 ext. 28273
Location: 
Sweeney Hall 2014, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

Research areas:

  • Canadian women’s and gender history
  • The history of the body
  • Canadian cultural history
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Jane Nicholas
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University of Waterloo Administrators; University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Early Modern European Religious and Cultural History
  • The Dutch Republic
  • Mennonite History
     
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Troy Osborne
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • British Empire
  • India since 1700
  • Britain since 1750
  • Transnational/global history
  • Historiography 
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Douglas Peers
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • early Canadian colonial society, especially the concepts and actualities of public space and public life
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Julia Roberts
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Faculty
susan.roy@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 32765
Location: 
Hagey Hall 133

Research areas:

  • Indigenous history of Canada
  • Global Indigenous issues
  • Canadian social and cultural history
  • Public history
  • Oral history
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Susan Roy
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Administrators; University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Twentieth century U.S. political, cultural, and diplomatic history
  • Modern U.S. history, with special focus on the Cold War period
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John Sbardellati
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University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Soviet Union
  • Eastern Europe
  • Totalitarianism
  • Popular resistance
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Military history
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Alexander Statiev
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • state/society relations in the context of war, using the history of Europe during WWI and WWII, and the immediate post-WWII years, as her vehicle for exploring this topic
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Lynne Taylor
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University of Waterloo Faculty
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Ryan Touhey
Group(s): 
University of Waterloo Faculty

Research areas:

  • Canadian and international human rights
  • Race relations in Canada
  • African-Canadian history
  • Immigration
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Jim Walker
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University of Waterloo Faculty