Administration
Nancy Rhoden
Chair, Department of History
| Position: Associate Professor Email: nrhoden@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84964 |
Office: LWH 2201B |
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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 |
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Jonathan F. Vance
Undergraduate Chair
| Position: Professor Email: jvance@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84974 |
Office: LWH 2247 |
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Research Interests Professor Vance teaches military history, Canadian history, and social memory. His current research focuses on the First World War, Canadian culture, and prisoners of war. He also curates the Wartime Canada collection. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Eli Nathans
Graduate Chair
| Position: Associate Professor Email: enathans@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84977 |
Office: LWH 2217 |
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Research Interests Professor Nathans has published a history of German citizenship policies and an examination of the conduct of a leading official of the Nazi administration of justice. In 2017 Palgrave Macmillan published his analysis of the life and work of a prominent West German radio and television journalist, Peter von Zahn's Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany. Assessing America. The study focuses on postwar West German debates about the weaknesses and strengths, possibilities and deficiencies, of republican forms of state and society and, in particular, of the United States. Although Peter von Zahn's American broadcasts date to the 1950s, the subjects on which he focused, the questions he posed, and the insights his work contains, remain relevant to the challenges that continue to face the United States and parliamentary regimes around the world. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Michael Dove
Director and Internship Coordinator, M.A. Public History Program
| Position: Assistant Professor Email: mdove2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84996 |
Office: LWH 1207 |
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Research Interests Professor Dove specializes in public history, early Canadian 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. He is currently researching the history of London’s historic Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world. Master's level supervisory privileges |
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Maya Shatzmiller
Director, Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG)
| Position: Professor Email: maya@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84994 |
Office: LWH 2229 |
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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 |
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Aldona Sendzikas
Director, Program in American Studies at Western
| Position: Associate Professor Email: asendzi2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84377 |
Office: LWH 1222 |
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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 |
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