Administration

Nancy Rhoden
Chair, Department of History                                                                                                                                       

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Position: Associate Professor
Email: nrhoden@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 2201B
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84964

Research Interests

Professor Rhoden is a specialist in colonial British America and the American Revolution, with particular interests in religious and social history.

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Robert MacDougall
Undergraduate Chair

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Position: Associate Professor
Email: rmacdou@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 2228
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85305

 

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.

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Francine McKenzie
Graduate Chair

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Position: Professor
Email: fmckenzi@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 2236
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 87637

  

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.

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Michael Dove
Director and Internship Coordinator, MA Public History Field

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: mdove2@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 1207
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84996



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.

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Frank Schumacher
Director, Program in International Relations
                                                                                                                                       

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Position: Associate Professor
Email: fschuma@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 2235
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84987

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.

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Maya Shatzmiller
Director, Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG)

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Position: Professor
Email: maya@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84994

       

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.

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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)
 

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Position: Associate Professor
Email: lshire@uwo.ca
Office: LWH 2226
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 83645

 

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.

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Aldona Sendzikas
Co- 
Director, Program in American Studies at Western

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Position: Associate Professor
Email: asendzi2@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84377

 

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

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