Faculty

Research areas:

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

Profile:

• Academia.edu profile

Research areas:

• Indigenous gender, families and well-being
• Urban Indigenous peoples

Research Areas:

• modern Canada
• public pasts, commemoration, heritage sites and museums
• tourism, travel, mobilities
• cultural landscapes
• environmental history

Research areas:

• Gender History
• Food History
• History of Health and Medicine
• Alcohol and Drug History

Research areas:

• The French Revolution
• Eighteenth-century France
• Modern Europe
• Revolutions and revolutionaries in the modern world

Research areas:

• medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain
• Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions

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

Research areas:

• early modern French religious, cultural and intellectual
• early modern theories of origins
• early modern missionary activity

Research areas:

• Canadian political history
• Quebec and French Canada
• Public policy
• Social movements
• Commemorations and celebrations

Research areas:

• Canadian history
• Comparative colonial histories
• Industrialization;
• Inequality
• Health and well-being
• Gender
• Aboriginal peoples
• Social and economic history
• Population history

Research areas:

• Tourism and travel history in Ireland and Britain

Scottish Studies Foundation

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

Research areas:

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

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

Research areas:

• Canadian and British social history
   

Research areas:

• serendipity in the historical research process
• digital history
• digital humanities
• gender and technology
• role of Makerspace in academia 

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

Research areas:

• modern Germany
• modern Europe
• history of sport
• film and history

Research areas:

• medieval social and ecclesiastical history
• history of sexuality
• women in the Middle Ages

Research areas:

• animal history
• environmental history
• live performance and communication
• entertainment and information industries
• American in the world
• North American West

Research areas:

• south Asia
   

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)

Research areas:

• modern China

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

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

Research areas:

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

Research areas:

• Islamic history
• Middle East 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

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

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

Research areas:

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

Research areas:

• British Empire
• Modern Britain
• International relations
• History of global governance

Research areas:

• Modern and contemporary international relations of the Asia-Pacific region
• Diplomatic history of Japan

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.

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

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

Research areas:

• Canada
• Digital
• Social movements

Research Areas:

• Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe
• Anabaptists and Anabaptism
• The History of Archives

Research areas:

• Canadian women’s and gender history
• The history of the body
• Canadian cultural history

Research areas:

• Early Modern European religious and cultural history
• The Dutch Republic
• Mennonite history
   

Research areas:

• British Empire
• India since 1700
• Britain since 1750
• Transnational/global history
• Historiography 

Research Area:

• Medieval intellectual history, especially the reception of the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages.

Research areas:

• Early Canadian colonial society, especially the concepts and actualities of public space and public life

Research areas:

• Canadian social and cultural history
• Indigenous rights and settler colonial histories
• Community-engaged research
• Public history

Research areas:

• Modern U.S. history, with special focus on the Cold War period

Research areas:

• Soviet Union
• Eastern Europe
• Totalitarianism
• Popular resistance
• Counterinsurgency
• Military history

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

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:

• 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:

• 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.