Administration
Nancy Rhoden
Chair, Department of History
Position: Associate Professor Email: nrhoden@uwo.ca Office: LWH 2201B Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84964 |
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Research Interests Professor Rhoden is a specialist in colonial British America and the American Revolution, with particular interests in religious and social history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Robert MacDougall
Undergraduate Chair
Position: Associate Professor Email: rmacdou@uwo.ca Office: LWH 2228 Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85305 |
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Research Interests Professor MacDougall studies the history of the late 19th and 20th century United States with a special focus on the cultural and political history of information, communication, science, and technology. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Francine McKenzie
Graduate Chair
Position: Professor Email: fmckenzi@uwo.ca Office: LWH 2236 Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 87637 |
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Research Interests Professor McKenzie is an international historian who works on the history of international organizations, global trade, and the British Commonwealth – especially on Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Michael Dove
Director and Internship Coordinator, MA Public History Field
Position: Assistant Professor Email: mdove2@uwo.ca Office: LWH 1207 Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84996 |
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Research Interests Professor Dove specializes in public history, Canadian sports history, and the business and social history of the global maritime world in the Early Modern Period (c.1500-1800). He is especially interested in the operation of commercial trading companies including the Hudson’s Bay Company, as well as the growth and decline of piracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His current research projects include London’s historic Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world, the history of hockey in the Forest City, and a business and cultural history of London’s O-Pee-Chee Company. Master's level supervisory privileges |
Frank Schumacher
Director, Program in International Relations
Position: Associate Professor Email: fschuma@uwo.ca Office: LWH 2235 Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84987 |
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Research Interests Professor Schumacher specializes in international and global history with a focus on the role of the United States in world affairs, the history of empires and colonialism, and the global history of genocide and mass violence. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges. |
Maya Shatzmiller
Director, Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG)
Position: Professor Email: maya@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84994 |
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Research Interests Professor Maya Shatzmiller is a specialist in the social and economic history of the medieval Islamic world and author of several books on the subject, among them 'Labour in the Medieval Islamic World' and 'Women's property Rights in 15th century Granada'. Her project of writing the economic history of medieval Islamic societies in several volumes is under way with the current volume devoted to the monetary history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Laurel Shire
Director, Program in American Studies at Western and DH Lab
GSWS Graduate Chair (Joint appointment with the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies)
Position: Associate Professor Email: lshire@uwo.ca Office: LWH 2226 Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 83645 |
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Research Interests Professor Shire is a social and cultural historian whose research focuses on the United States in the nineteenth century, especially the relationship between race, gender, and U.S. expansion. Her research connects scholarship on North American borderlands, Western and Southern U.S. history, the Atlantic world, Native and African American studies, and women’s history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Aldona Sendzikas
Co- Director, Program in American Studies at Western
Position: Associate Professor Email: asendzi2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84377 |
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Research Interests Professor Sendzikas specializes in 20th century U.S. and military history. Her research interests include the U.S. Submarine Service, particularly during WWII; prisoner of war issues;Canada-U.S. relations; and Cold War culture and society Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |