Faculty Directory
Ruramisai Charumbira
Position: Associate Professor Email: rcharumb@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 86521 |
Office: LWH 1220 |
Research Interests African feminist theory; history and memory; indigenous ways of knowing; nature, spirits, and culture, empire and resistance. |
Michael Dove
Director and Internship Coordinator, MA Public History Field
Position: Assistant Professor Email: mdove2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84996 |
Office: LWH 1207 |
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 |
Marta Dyczok
Position: Associate Professor Email: mdyczok@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84982 |
Office: LWH 2246 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Professor Email: jflath@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84989 |
Office: LWH 2234 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Professor |
Office: LWH 1208 |
Research Interests 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 |
Office: LWH 2224 |
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
Position: Professor Email: halpern@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84980 |
Office: LWH 2266 |
Research Interests Professor Halpern specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canadian and American Women's History and Jewish History. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Michelle A. Hamilton
Position: Professor Email: mhamilt3@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84973 |
Office: LWH 2216 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Assistant Professor Email: mhammo42@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88860 |
Office: LWH 2218 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Assistant Professor Email: pkrats@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84983 |
Office: STVH 2123 |
Research Interests 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
Undergraduate Chair
Position: Associate Professor Email: rmacdou@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85305 |
Office: LWH 2228 |
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 |
Alan MacEachern
Position: Professor Email: amaceach@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84993 |
Office: LWH 2268 |
Research Interests Professor MacEachern is an environmental historian of Canada. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Allyson May
Position: Associate Professor Email: amay6@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85272 |
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Research Interests Professor May is a specialist in 18th and 19th century Britain. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
Margaret McGlynn
Position: Professor and Vice Provost, Academic Planning, Policy and Faculty Email: mmcglyn@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-850-2900 |
Office: LWH 1206 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Professor Email: smckell@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84990 |
Office: LWH 2227 History of Medicine at Western |
Research Interests 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
Position: Associate Professor Email: kmckenna@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84979 |
Office: LWH 3246 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Professor Email: fmckenzi@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 87637 |
Office: LWH 2236 |
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 |
Eli Nathans
Graduate Chair
Position: Associate Professor Email: enathans@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84977 |
Office: LWH 2217 |
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 |
Nancy Rhoden
Chair, Department of History
Position: Associate Professor Email: nrhoden@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84964 |
Office: LWH 2201B |
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 |
Frank Schumacher
Director, Program in International Relations
Position: Associate Professor Email: fschuma@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84987 |
Office: LWH 2235 |
Research Interests 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
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 |
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 |
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
Co-Director, Program in American Studies at Western
Position: Associate Professor Email: lshire@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 83645 |
Office: LWH 2226 |
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 |
William J. Turkel
Research Chair
Position: Professor Email: wturkel@uwo.ca |
Office: LWH 2267 |
Research Interests 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. |
Jonathan F. Vance
Position: Professor Email: jvance@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84974 |
Office: LWH 2247 |
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 |
Robert Wardhaugh
Position: Professor Email: rwardhau@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84969 |
Office: LWH 2263 |
Research Interests 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 F. Young
Position: Associate Professor Email: cyoung73@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84910 |
Office: LWH 2225 |
Research Interests 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 |
Part Time Faculty
William Acres
Position: Assistant Professor, PhD, FRHistS Email: wacres@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-438-7224 ext. 608 |
Office: 2245 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Assistant Professor Email: tcompeau@uwo.ca Office Hours: By appointment |
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Research Interests 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. |
Oleksa Drachewych
Position: Assistant Professor Email: odrachew@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88552 |
Office: 2233 |
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Michael Feagan
Position: Assistant Professor Email: mfeagan@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-3645 |
Office: LWH 2237 |
Research Interests Professor Feagan's current research focus is on Canadian and American telegraph operators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research and work are primarily concerned with the connections between technology and labour and how that history can inform our current relationships with technology and work. He has also written and presented on topics involving the history of telephone poles, office equipment, and Morse code. |
Michael S. Fulton
Position: Assistant Professor |
Office: LWH 2265 |
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. |
Sara Khorshid
Position: Lecturer Email: skhorshi@uwo.ca |
Office: LWH 2245 |
Research Interests Decolonization and postcolonialism in the 20th century; the cultural history of the Cold War; modern Middle Eastern history; modern Egyptian history; popular culture and history; 20th-century American history; transnational history; Arab-Western encounters Sara Khorshid has also studied Canadian history and Canadian gender history extensively. |
Andrew Iarocci
Position: Assistant Professor Email: aiarocc@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-3645 |
Office: LWH 2237 |
Research Interests 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
Position: Assistant Professor Email: alloydla@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-3645 |
Office: LWH 2245 |
Kenneth Reilly
Position: Assistant Professor Email: kreill22@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-3645 |
Office: LWH 1201 |
Research Interests Professor Reilly researches on environmental history in the United States, with particular attention to marginalized people in nature. |
Don Spanner
Position: Assistant Professor Email: dspanner@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext.83645 |
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Research Interests Professor Spanner's research interests include Archival Studies, Reference Services and Outreach Development, Conservation and Preservation Management and Ontario History |
Cary Takagaki
Position: Assistant Professor Email: ctakagak@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 80155 |
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Research Interests Professor Takagaki's research interests include East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies. |
Jeffery Vacante
Position: Assistant Professor Email: jvacant2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 89269 |
Office: STvH 2124 |
Research Interests 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 |
Adjunct Faculty
Julia Berest
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor Email:jberest2@uwo.ca |
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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
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor Email: sdevine7@uwo.ca |
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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
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor Email: phenshaw@pco-bcp.gc.ca Telephone: 613-952-4898 |
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Research Interests 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
Position: Adjunct Professor Email:vmcalist@uwo.ca |
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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. His selected works are available here. |
Geoffrey C. Stewart
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor Email: gstewa4@uwo.ca |
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Research Interests I am international historian whose research focuses on the United States in the World, situating America’s global engagement at the intersection of decolonization and the Cold War. Master's level supervisory privileges |
Mark Tovey
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor Email: mark@uwo.ca PhD, Carleton, 2011 |
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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-winning Hear Here London. |
Cross Appointed Faculty
Rande Kostal
Position: Cross-Appointed Professor Email: rwk@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88415 |
Office: LB 18 |
Research Interests Professor Kostal's research interests are focused in the field of modern Anglo-American legal history. |