Faculty

History Faculty and Staff 2008

Full-Time Faculty

Name School, Year Teaching Fields Research Interests
Dyczok, Marta DPhil, Oxford, 1995 Russian and East European politics and history; Comparative politics International politics and history; Eastern Europe; Media; Migration; Post-communism
Flath, James PhD, British Columbia, 2000 Modern China; Culture; Public Rural North China; Folk art; Modernity; Public history in China
Fleming, Keith PhD, Western Ontario, 1988 Canadian business, Canadian Politics Canada, North American Business History
Forster, J.J. Benjamin PhD, Toronto, 1982 Canada; Business Canada; Business and economics; Furniture
Hall, Roger D. PhD, Cambridge 1974 Canada; Culture Ontario; Photography
Halpern, Monda PhD, Queen's, Can. 1997 19th and 20th century Canadian and American Women's History and Jewish history 19th and 20th century Canadian and American Women's History and Jewish History
Hamilton, Michelle PhD, Western Ontario, 2004 Canada; Public History; Native History Public History; Native History; History of Museums; Material Culture
Hernández-Sáenz, Luz Maria PhD, Arizona, 1993 Latin America, Atlantic Studies, Medicine Mexico; Social history of medicine; Public health
Hill, Susan PhD, Trent, 2006    
Karakacili, Eona PhD, Toronto, 2001 Medieval, Economic Medieval economic history; pre-industrial long run growth; pre-industrial global divergence
Kellow, Margaret M.R. PhD, Yale, 1993 19th-Century U.S., Women Antislavery, Gender & Race in 19th Century America.
Krats, Peter V. PhD, Western Ontario, 1988 Canada, Northern Development "resource frontier" of provinces; Immigration, particularly Finns; and the Local/Regional history of the Sudbury/Nickel Belt area.
Lupovitch, Howard PhD, Columbia, 1996 Jewish Studies The Jews of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, Modern Jewish History
MacDougall, Robert PhD, Harvard, 2004 20th-century U.S., Business, Technology, Global American Technology and Business
MacEachern, Alan PhD, Queen's, Can. 1997 Canada, Environment, Public Canadian Environmental History
May, Allyson N. PhD, Toronto, 1997 18th and 19th century English History 18th and 19th century English legal profession, criminal trial, detection, Englishness and English identity; landscape and the countryside
McGlynn, Margaret PhD, Toronto, 1998 Europe, Medieval and Renaissance English law; Reformation and society
McKellar, Shelley PhD, Toronto, 1999 Canada, U.S., Medicine Technology and organ replacement. The technological imperative in twentieth century medicine.
McKenna, Katherine PhD, Queen's, 1987 Canada, U.S., Women and Gender Women and gender; North Atlantic
McKenzie, Francine PhD, Cambridge, 1995 Modern Europe, International Relations History of International Relations, 19th and 20th centuries; history of International Trade, Postwar Reconstruction, British Commonwealth
Millard, J. Rodney PhD, Toronto, 1982 Canada, Technology Canadian history and the social history of North American technology.
Millman, Brock PhD, McGill, 1992 Britain, International Relations, Warfare Canadian War Policy in the later war years, and , in particular, its domestic sources and its connections with post-war realities.
Murison, Barbara PhD, Western Ontario, 1981 British Empire, Early Modern Europe History of women in the Scottish Kirk from 1660-1800.  Presbyterianism on both sides of the Atlantic.
Priestman, Karen PhD, Wilfrid Laurier Modern Europe, with special focus on Germany, Jewish Studies History of The Walforf Schools in the Third Reich
Nathans, Eli PhD, Johns Hopkins, 2001 Modern Europe, with a special focus on Germany; Intellectual and Cultural History Laws and policies governing citizenship, especially in Germany; Courts, lawyers, and the administration of justice in Nazi Germany; Cultural change in West Germany after 1945
Reynard, Pierre Claude PhD, York, Can., 1994 Social, economic, and environmental history of Early-modern and Modern France and Europe Pre-industrial manufacturing, entrepreneurship, attitudes toward the environment, urban expansion, and the role of the state.
Rhoden, Nancy PhD, Princeton, 1994 Atlantic Studies, Colonial America History of the Virginia elite during the American Revolution.
Schumacher, Frank Dr. Phil., Cologne, 1997 U.S. Foreign Relations, Modern International History North American International,
Military, & Cultural History, Transatlantic Relations, History of Globalization, Imperialism and Colonialism, War and Society
Sendzikas, Aldona PhD, Hawaii, 2002 Military History, U.S. History, American Studies, Museum Studies The U.S. Submarine Service, especially WWII period; POW issues; Canada-US relations
Shatzmiller, Maya PhD, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1974 Medieval, Islamic, Women The economic history of the Islamic lands
Simpson, Craig PhD, Stanford, 1974 19th-Century U.S., Old U.S. South Nineteenth century American history, with a particular interest in the South.
Skoczylas, Anne PhD, Western Ontario, 1996 Europe British and European intellectual history
Stewart, Geoffrey PhD, Western Ontario, 2010 American Diplomatic History, Modern Vietnamese History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century International Relations, and United States Domestic History US-Vietnamese Relations, American Diplomatic History, and Southeast Asian History
Turkel, William J. PhD, MIT, 2004 Digital; Public; Science, Technology, and Environment; Global Digital history; Science, technology and environment; Measurement, materials science, machine tools
Vacante, Jeffery PhD, Western Ontario, 2005   History of sexuality and gender in Quebec, role of race in Quebec society, rise of left-wing separatism in the 1950s and 1960s
Vance, Jonathan F.W. PhD, York, Can., 1993 Canada, Culture and Conflict, Warfare Local history of the First World War.
Wardhaugh, Robert PhD, Manitoba, 1995 Modern Canada, Politics, Prairie West, Regionalism, Rural Federalism; Dominion-Provincial Relations; the Prairie West; the Small Town
Young, Carl F. PhD, London, 2004 Korea, Japan, International Relations religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centering especially on Korea and Japan