Faculty Directory

Ruramisai Charumbira

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: African feminist theory; history and memory; indigenous ways of knowing; nature, spirits, and culture, empire and resistance.

Mike Dove

Assistant Professor and Director and Internship Coordinator, MA Public History Field

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Marta Dyczok

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Dyczok specializes in international politics and history, with a focus on East Central Europe and Eurasia, and specifically Ukraine. Her research interests are on the politics of history, mass media, migration, post-communism and World War II. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

James Flath

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Flath specializes in visual and material culture, as well as the history of monuments, museums, and commemoration. Please see his research and publication page for more information. Website: Nianhua Gallery:A Study of Chinese Folk Art https://history.uwo.ca/nianhua/ Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Keith Fleming

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Keith Fleming is currently working on several projects. The first is a "new" political history of Ontario spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries that he's writing for the University of Toronto Press. Unlike previous surveys of Ontario's history which overstate the province's regional divisions and diversity, a central objective of the book will be to describe how a distinctively Upper Canadian/Ontario identity evolved over time, and in particular since the mid-eighteenth century, by focusing on the political, social, cultural and economic events that contributed to the formation of provincial attitudes and perspectives reasonably deemed "Ontarian." The second project is a history of political protest and dissent throughout Canadian history from the nineteenth century to the present. The third project is an entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography of George Howard Ferguson (1870-1946), the former Ontario Conservative premier and Canadian high commissioner in London. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Cody Groat

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Assistant Professor Cody Groat's research interests can broadly be defined as 'public history.' More specifically, he is interested in the commemoration, preservation and stewardship of Indigenous cultural heritage and 'historic sites' by provincial, federal, and international bodies. He is also interested in diverse aspects of Indigenous cultural heritage including archaeological sites, documentary heritage, intangible cultural heritage, and cultural landscapes. His research is influenced by his work as a heritage practitioner, primarily as the President of the Indigenous Heritage Circle, but also through partnerships such as the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and other Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations.

Monda Halpern

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Halpern specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canadian and American Women's History and Jewish History. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Michelle Hamilton

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Hamilton is a Public Historian whose research focuses on historical and contemporary issues surrounding museums and heritage, social memory and commemoration, cultural identity and issues of representation, usually in regards to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Mitchell Hammond

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Assistant Professor Mitchell Hammond researches the social and medical history of early modern Europe with a focus on German cities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is also interested in the history of public health and the impact of epidemic diseases in the modern world.

Peter V. Krats

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Krats studies the "resource frontier" of provinces, especially Ontario; immigration, notably Finnish, is another interest. He is working on a comparison of "northern resource development" in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula and the Sudbury region of Northeastern Ontario. Master's level supervisory privileges

Robert MacDougall

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Alan MacEachern

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor MacEachern is an environmental historian of Canada. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Allyson May

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor May is a specialist in 18th and 19th century Britain. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Margaret McGlynn

Professor and Vice Provost, Academic Planning, Policy and Faculty

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor McGlynn's current research interests all deal with the relationship between the Church and the law in late medieval and early Tudor England. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Shelley McKellar

Professor and Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor McKellar studies the history of medicine and disease, with a special interest in the history of medical technology, instruments and devices, the history of surgery, and medical biography. She is also the curator of the Western Medical Artifact Collection. Master's & Doctoral Level Supervisor Privileges

Katherine McKenna

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor McKenna is a specialist in 18th and early 19th century history of women and gender in the North Atlantic. She also researches in the area of violence against women and children and is developing new work on East African colonial women's and gender history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Francine McKenzie

Professor and Graduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Sara Morrison

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Associate Professor Sara Morrison specializes in the early modern history of Europe, England, women, Queenship and Power. Her research focuses on the legal and environmental history of English royal forests and stewardship of pre-modern resources.

Eli Nathans

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Nancy Rhoden

Chair, Department of History

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Frank Schumacher

Associate Professor and Director, Program in International Relations

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Schumacher specializes in international and transnational 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.

Aldona Sendzikas

Associate Professor - On sabbatical July 2024 - June 2025

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Maya Shatzmiller

Professor and Director, Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG)

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Associate Professor, Director, Program in American Studies at Western & DH Lab and GSWS Graduate Chair (Joint appointment with the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies)

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

William J. Turkel

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Turkel's research interests include computational history, big history, STS, disability studies and disability history, physical computing and desktop fabrication, electronics, sound and esoterica. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Jonathan F. Vance

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: 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

Robert Wardhaugh

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Wardhaugh is a historian of twentieth-century Canada. His areas include political history and the history of the Prairie West. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Carl Young

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Young's research interests focus on religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centering especially on Korea and Japan. He also has a strong interest in comparative world history and cross-cultural interaction between different world regions, focusing on Asia as a case study. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

William Acres

Assistant Professor, PhD, FRHistS

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Acres current work 'Breaking Trust and the New England Company at the Grand River Mission, 1827-1934' and 'John Strype, New Histories and Old Religion, 1680-1737'

Timothy Compeau

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Compeau researches the British Empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a special interest in honour culture and loyalism. He also researches public history and social memory.

Michael S. Fulton

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Fulton studies the history and archaeology of conflict during the Middle Ages, focusing primarily on the crusades and interactions in the Levant during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Andrew Iarocci

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Assistant Professor Iarocci's research interests encompass twentieth-century warfare, military transportation and procurement, and more generally, the material culture of modern conflict.

Amber Lloydlangston

Assistant Professor

Charan Mandur

Lecturer

Research Interests / Specializations: Lecturer Mandur's primary interests are in environmental history and the history of science and technology.

Don Spanner

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Spanner's research interests include Archival Studies, Reference Services and Outreach Development, Conservation and Preservation Management and Ontario History

Cary Takagaki

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Takagaki's research interests include East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies.

Jeffery Vacante

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Vacante is a Canadian historian who specializes in the intellectual, political, and gender history of Quebec. His work examines Quebec nationalism in the twentieth century. Master's and Co-Doctoral Level supervisory privileges

Julia Berest

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Berest is a specialist in Russian and European Intellectual History, with a focus on liberal ideas and the reception of Western liberal thought in pre-revolutionary Russia. Her monograph, The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context 1783-1840, explores the development of Russian liberal tradition through the life and writings of one of its earliest exponents— Alexander Kunitsyn, who brought to Russia the ideas of the eighteenth century Enlightenment philosophers. Among her recent publications is a series of articles on the reception of J. S. Mill in Russia, and an article that examines the theme of happiness in Russian pre-revolutionary thought.

Shauna Devine

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Devine's research and teaching interests focus on the social, cultural and military history of the United States, particularly the Civil War era, with a special interest in medicine and science during and after the war. Her first book, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science. (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), examines the work of doctors who served in the Union Medical Department, and explores how their innovations in the midst of crisis transformed northern medical education and gave rise to the healing power of modern health science. Professor Devine's next research project tentatively entitled Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Civil War South and Reconstruction examines medical practice in the Civil War south, which will be published as a companion volume to her work on medical practice in the north. She is also working on two commissioned works from the United States Army Medical Department in conjunction with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which examine the larger impact of war on American medicine.

Peter J. Henshaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Dr. Henshaw studies British imperial and Commonwealth history, with a particular focus on 20th century southern Africa and Canada. His current interest is in John Buchan and identity formation in the “British world”, including the origins of multiculturalism. He has also worked on the military and bureaucratic politics of Anglo-Canadian decisions leading to the launch the Dieppe raid in 1942.

Vivian McAlister

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Dr. McAlister is a physician who researches the medical and military history of Canada. He was a transplant surgeon and a military surgeon before joining the department of history. He is the Canadian president of the James IV Association of Surgeons.

Mark Tovey

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Professor Tovey studies the history of astronomy and space travel, with a special interest in the material culture of astronomical instruments, models, and art. He is the curator of the Cronyn Observatory. He also works on the development of online projects involving digital platforms, partnering in the award-wining Hear Here London.