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Tara Abraham

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • History of Medicine
  • History of Psychiatry
  • History of Science and Technology
  • History of the Human Sciences

Profile:

Link to profile: Tara Abraham

Kim Anderson

Associate Professor, Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition

Research areas:

  • Indigenous gender, families and well-being
  • Urban Indigenous peoples
Link to profile: Kim Anderson

Ben Bradley

Assistant Professor, History

Research Areas:

  • modern Canada
  • public pasts, commemoration, heritage sites and museums
  • tourism, travel, mobilities
  • cultural landscapes
  • environmental history
Link to profile: Ben Bradley

Catherine Carstairs, F. R. S. C.

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Gender History
  • Food History
  • History of Health and Medicine
  • Alcohol and Drug History
Link to profile: Catherine Carstairs

William S. Cormack

Professor, History; Undergraduate Program Co-Advisor

Research areas:

  

  • The French Revolution
  • Eighteenth-century France
  • Modern Europe
  • Revolutions and revolutionaries in the modern world
Link to profile: William S. Cormack

Susannah Ferreira

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain
  • Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions
Link to profile: Susannah Ferreira

Eric Fillion

Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Literatures; Director, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation

Research Areas

  • Cultural history
  • Festival studies
  • Public diplomacy
  • Quebec and the Francophonie
  • Social movements
Link to profile: Eric Fillion

James E. Fraser

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Textual sources and early medieval northern Britain
  • Links between Ireland and northern Britain
  • Early medieval society
  • The historiography of early medieval northern Britain
Link to profile: James E. Fraser

Peter A. Goddard

Director, Tri-U Grad History Program; Associate Professor, History
(519) 824-4120 ex. 54460
Location: 1014 Mackinnon Extension, University of Guelph

Research areas:

  • early modern French religious, cultural and intellectual
  • early modern theories of origins
  • early modern missionary activity
Link to profile: Peter A. Goddard

Matthew Hayday

Professor, History; Chair of the Department at Guelph

Research areas:

  • Canadian political history
  • Quebec and French Canada
  • Public policy
  • Social movements
  • Commemorations and celebrations
Link to profile: Matthew Hayday

Kris Inwood

Professor, History; Economics and Finance

Research areas:

  • Canadian history
  • Comparative colonial histories
  • Industrialization;
  • Inequality
  • Health and well-being
  • Gender
  • Aboriginal peoples
  • Social and economic history
  • Population history
Link to profile: Kris Inwood
Link to personal webpage: Kris Inwood website

Kevin James

Professor, History; Scottish Studies Foundation chair

Research areas:

  • Tourism and travel history in Ireland and Britain

Scottish Studies Foundation

Link to profile: Kevin James

Femi J. Kolapo

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • War and society in precolonial sub-Sahara Africa
  • Christian missionary and west African communities before colonization
  • Slavery, the slave trades and post-abolition in Africa
Link to profile: Femi J. Kolapo

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
Link to profile: Sofie Lachapelle

Brittany Luby

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Indigenous history in North America
  • Canadian history
  • Anishinaabe studies
  • environmental history
  • industrialization of the Canadian boreal forests and subarctic
  • industrial water pollution
  • Indigenous economies and labour
  • Indigenous health and wellness
  • Indigenous education
  • oral history
  • ethnohistory
  • Anishinabek pedagogy
Link to profile: Brittany Luby

Linda Mahood

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Canadian and British social history
     
Link to profile: Linda Mahood

Kimberley Martin

Assistant Professor, History

Research areas:

  • serendipity in the historical research process
  • digital history
  • digital humanities
  • gender and technology
  • role of Makerspace in academia 
Link to profile: Kimberley Martin

Stuart McCook

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • history of tropical agriculture, especially export commodities.
  • botany, agriculture, and nation-building in the Greater Caribbean
  • environmental history of tropical crops — especially to a series of catastrophic plant diseases that afflicted almost every major tropical crop, starting in the mid-nineteenth century
  • the coffee leaf rust
  • global history
  • commodity history
  • the history of science
  • technology
  • medicine
  • disease and history
  • the history of natural disasters
  • Latin American history
Link to profile: Stuart McCook

Alan McDougall

Professor, History; Graduate coordinator
(519) 824 4120 ex. 53165

Research areas:

  • modern Germany
  • modern Europe
  • history of sport
  • film and history
Link to profile: Alan McDougall

Jacqueline Murray

University Professor Emerita, History

Research areas:

  • medieval social and ecclesiastical history
  • history of sexuality
  • women in the Middle Ages
Link to profile: Jacqueline Murray

Susan Nance

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • animal history
  • environmental history
  • live performance and communication
  • entertainment and information industries
  • American in the world
  • North American West
Link to profile: Susan Nance

Jesse Palsetia

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • south Asia
     
Link to profile: Jesse Palsetia

Karen Racine

Professor, History; Undergraduate Program Co-Advisor

Research areas:

  • Latin America
  • British Cultural Influence in the Independence era
  • Atlantic World 1750-1850
  • travel, exile, national identity, patriotism, liberation
  • Robert Southey and the Luso-Hispanic World
  • Joel R. Poinsett in South America
  • Francisco Xavier Mina (biography)
Link to profile: Karen Racine

Norman Smith

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • modern China
Link to profile: Norman Smith

Alex Souchen

Assistant Professor, History/History of Science

Research Areas:

  • History of Science and Technology
  • War and Society
  • Environmental History
  • Consumption, Waste, and Pollution
  • History of the Oceans
  • First and Second World Wars
  • 20th Century Canadian History
Link to profile: Alex Souchen

Cathryn Spence

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • economic and social history of women and gender in late medieval and early modern Scotland
    • urban and economic history
    • impact of gender and socioeconomic status when navigating economic relationships in early modern Western Europe
Link to profile: Cathryn Spence

Catharine Wilson, F.R.S.C.

University Professor Emerita, History; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Agricultural History Society. Retired 2024.

Research areas:

  • Canadian rural history
  • Irish immigration to Canada
  • early settlement
  • local history

Renée Worringer

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Islamic history
  • Middle East history
Link to profile: Renée Worringer
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Talena Atfield

Canada Research Chair in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together); Assistant Professor, History

Research, Teaching, and Supervision Interests:

  • Hodinohso:ni history and culture
  • Indigenous tangible and intangible cultures in collections
  • The history of collecting Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island
  • Beadwork, tufting, quillwork, leatherwork, regalia-making
  • Languages of material cultures
  • Teioháte kaswenta (Two Row Wampum) – Covenant Chain methodology
Link to profile: Talena Atfield

Steven Bednarski

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Social history of crime and gender, 14th and 15th centuries
  • Geographic focus: Provence, south of England
    • Provence: Reads criminal trials and notarial registers. Extracts lessons on wife assault, child abuse, adultery and illicit sexuality, gender norms, pedagogy, and women’s healthcare.
    • England: Contemplates changes to natural environment and their impact on lived human experiences, particularly in and around Herstmonceux manor, East Sussex
Link to profile: Steven Bednarski

Gary Bruce

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Modern German history
  • Surveillance and opposition in 20th century Germany
  • Animal-human relations in 19th and 20th century Germany
  • East Germany
  • Holocaust
  • Nazi Germany
Link to profile: Gary Bruce

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Associate Professor, History; Associate Chair, Undergraduate

Research areas:

  • Global history
  • History of prisons and punishment
  • African history
  • Gender history
  • Social history
  • Critical archive studies
  • Oral history

Dan Gorman

Professor, History; Chair of the Department at Waterloo

Research areas:

  • British Empire
  • Modern Britain
  • International relations
  • History of global governance
Link to profile: Dan Gorman

Kimie Hara

Professor, East Asian Studies

Research areas:

  • Modern and contemporary international relations of the Asia-Pacific region
  • Diplomatic history of Japan
Link to profile: Kimie Hara

Geoffrey Hayes

Professor, History; On Sabbatical

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.

Link to profile: Geoffrey Hayes

Andrew Hunt

Professor, History;

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
Link to profile: Andrew Hunt

Greta Kroeker

Associate Professor, History

Kristina R. Llewellyn

Adjunct professor, History

Professor of History and Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement, McMaster University

Alternative email: kristina.llewellyn@mcmaster.ca

Ian Milligan

Professor, History; Associate Vice-President, Research Oversight and Analysis

Research areas:

  • Canada
  • Digital
  • Social movements
Link to profile: Ian Milligan

Bruce Muirhead

Professor; Associate Vice-President, External Research

David Neufeld

Assistant Professor, History

Research Areas:

  • Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe
  • Anabaptists and Anabaptism
  • The History of Archives
Link to profile: David Neufeld
Link to personal webpage: davidyneufeld.com

Jane Nicholas

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Canadian women’s and gender history
  • The history of the body
  • Canadian cultural history
Link to profile: Jane Nicholas

Troy Osborne

Dean, Conrad Grebel University College; Associate Professor of History

Research areas:

  • Early Modern European religious and cultural history
  • The Dutch Republic
  • Mennonite history
     
Link to profile: Troy Osborne

Douglas Peers, FRHS

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • British Empire
  • India since 1700
  • Britain since 1750
  • Transnational/global history
  • Historiography 
Link to profile: Douglas Peers

David Porreca

Cross-Appointed to History; Co-Director Medieval Studies

Research Area:

  • Medieval intellectual history, especially the reception of the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages.
Link to profile: David Porreca

Julia Roberts

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Early Canadian colonial society, especially the concepts and actualities of public space and public life
Link to profile: Julia Roberts

Susan Roy

Associate Professor, History; Associate Chair (Graduate) Waterloo
519-888-4567 x32765
Location: Hagey Hall 133

Research areas:

  • Canadian social and cultural history
  • Indigenous rights and settler colonial histories
  • Community-engaged research
  • Public history
Link to profile: Susan Roy

Christopher Taylor

Assitant Professor, History; Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

Research Interests

  • Race and Racism
  • Black Canadian history
  • Caribbean history
  • Slavery in the Americas
  • The African and Black Diasporas
  • Black identity
  • Migration
  • Anti-racism
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Multiculturalism
Link to profile: Christopher Taylor

Ryan Touhey

Associate Professor, History; Chair, Department of History, St. Jerome's University
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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.
Link to profile: Gavin Brockett

Tarah Brookfield

Professor, History/Youth and Children's Studies

Research areas:

  • Canadian history
  • Cold War history
  • History of children and youth
  • Women's history
Link to profile: Tarah Brookfield

Blaine Chiasson

Associate Professor, History

Research areas: 

  • Modern Chinese history
  • Russian émigré history
  • History of Beijing military occupation
Link to profile: Blaine Chiasson

Cynthia Comacchio

Professor Emerita, History (Ret. 2022)

Research areas:

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

Alternate email: ccomacchio@gmail.com

Adam Crerar

Associate Professor, History

Research areas: 

  • Modern Canadian history.
  • Rural history.
Link to profile: Adam Crerar

Darryl Dee

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • French history
  • Military history
  • Social history
Link to profile: Darryl Dee

Karljürgen Feuerherm

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Semitic language and literature
  • Ancient history
  • Computer science
Link to profile: Karljürgen Feuerherm

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
Link to profile: Judith Fletcher

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
Link to profile: Leonard G. Friesen

Jeff Grischow

Professor, History; Associate Director, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa

Research areas:

  • African history.
  • History of disability.
  • Idea and practice of development.
Link to profile: Jeff Grischow

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
Link to profile: Christina Han

Mark Humphries

Professor, History; Graduate coordinator
548-889-5049

Research areas:

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

If you are interested in contacting Dr. Humphries for research reasons, please use this email address: mhumphries@wlu.ca

Link to profile: Mark Humphries

Rob Kristofferson

Professor, Social and Environmental Justice/History

Research areas:

  • Canadian history
  • labour and working class history
  • business history
  • class formation
  • social movements
  • labour studies
  • globalization
Link to profile: Rob Kristofferson

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
Link to profile: Sofie Lachapelle

Lianne C. Leddy

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada; Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Indigenous history in Canada
  • Indigenous peoples and the environment
  • Gender and Indigenous peoples
Link to profile: Lianne C. Leddy

Amy Milne-Smith

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Nineteenth-century British and Imperial history
  • Cultural history
  • History of masculinity
  • History of mental health
  • Crime and deviancy
Link to profile: Amy Milne-Smith

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
Link to profile: David Monod

Darren Mulloy

Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Post-1945 U.S. history.
  • Political radicalism in the United States.
  • American film and popular music.
Link to profile: Darren Mulloy

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
Link to profile: Susan Neylan

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
Link to profile: Chris L. Nighman

Eva Plach

Associate Professor, History

Research areas:

  • Polish history.
  • History of Polish Jews.
Link to profile: Eva Plach

Roger Sarty

Professor Emeritus, History (Ret. 2022)

Research areas:

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

David Smith

Associate Professor, History; Chair of the Department at Laurier

Research areas:

  • British history
  • business history
  • legal history
Link to profile: David Smith

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
Link to profile: Kevin Spooner

Geoff Spurr

Associate Professor, History; Program Coordinator, History, Brantford
Link to profile: Geoff Spurr

Gary Warrick

Professor Emeritus, History and Indigenous 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
Link to profile: Gary Warrick

Dana Elizabeth Weiner

Associate Professor, History; Undergraduate Officer, History, Ancient Studies, and Applied Digital Programs

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
Link to profile: Dana Elizabeth Weiner