Part Time Faculty

William Acres

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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

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: tcompeau@uwo.ca
Office Hours: By appointment


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

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: odrachew@uwo.ca
Telephone:  519-661-2111 ext. 88552
Office: 2233

Research Interests

Professor Drachewych’s research interests focus on the history of Russian foreign policy, the history of international
communism, and transnational anti-imperialism. Professor Drachewych has also authored several book reviews in
Canadian Slavonic Papers, Europe-Asia Studies, Revolutionary Russia, and elsewhere. He serves as a reviews editor
for H-Russia.


Michael S. Fulton

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email:mfulton8@uwo.ca 
Telephone: 519-661-3645

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.


Andrew Iarocci

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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.


Sara Khorshid

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Position: Lecturer
Email: skhorshi@uwo.ca 
Office: StvH 2160

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.


Amber Lloydlangston

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: alloydla@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-3645
Office: LWH 2245

Don Spanner

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: dspanner@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext.83645


Research Interests

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


Cary Takagaki

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Position: Assistant Professor
Email: ctakagak@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 80155

Research Interests

Professor Takagaki's research interests include East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies.


Jeffery Vacante

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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