Dr. Eric Story
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History
PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2024
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext 83645
Email: estory3@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall R2244
Research Interests
Eric Story is a historian of medicine, disability, colonialism and war in modern Canada. He has written several articles on the legacies of the First World War and is currently developing a manuscript on the history of tuberculosis illness in early twentieth century Canada with McGill-Queen’s University Press. His article, “The Indigenous Casualties of War” (2021), won the Canadian Historical Review’s Best Article Prize.
Before his appointment at Western, he was an AMS Postdoctoral Fellow at Brock University (2024). He completed his PhD in Medical History at Wilfrid Laurier University (2024).
Publications
Monograph
2027 Tuberculosis and the Long Legacies of the Great War. McGill-Queen’s University Press [Under contract].
Articles
2025 “The Interdisciplinary First World War Classroom: A Reflection and Response.” First World War Studies. [Submitted] [Third author].
2025 “Fragments from France: A Disability History of Canada’s Great War.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Special Issue: Disability History. [Submitted].
2023 “Editors’ Introduction.” Canadian Military History 32, no. 1 (2023): 1–7 [Third author].
2021 “The Indigenous Casualties of War: Disability, Death and the Racialized Politics of Pensions, 1914–1939.” The Canadian Historical Review 102, no. 2: 279–304. Awarded Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize and Tri-University PhD Prize.
2016 “Shifting Memories, Shifting Meanings: The Nutana Collegiate Memorial Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1919–1930.” Manitoba History 82: 13–22.
2015 “‘The Awakening Has Come’: Canadian First Nations in the Great War Era, 1914–1932.” Canadian Military History 24, no. 2: 11–35. Awarded Great War Centenary Prize
Chapters
2025 “Hometown Heroes of the British Empire: English Canada’s Homecomings of the Great War, 1915–1919.” In Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Niels Boender. Routledge.
Special Issues
2023 “Aftermath: Canada’s Great War Pension Files.” Canadian Military History 32, no. 1 (2023) [Third Editor].
Book Reviews
2024 “Review of Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War by Gregory M.W. Kennedy.” Journal of History 59, no. 3: 357–360.
2020 “Review of Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis and the Toronto Sanatorium by Stacie Burke.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 37, no. 2: 541–543.
2018 “Book Review of Sounding Thunder: Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes.” Canadian Military History 27, no. 1: 36–39.
Conference Papers (Most Recent)
2025 “Locating Disability in the Ashes of the Great War.” Critical Dialogues: Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, 2–4 June.
2025 “The Tuberculosis Crisis of 1916.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Toronto, ON, 31 May – 2 June.
2025 “Bridging the Gap: Battlefields, Homefronts and the Tuberculosis Crisis of 1916.” 35th Annual Canadian Military History Colloquium, Waterloo, ON, 9–10 May.
2024 “When Johnny Comes Marching Home: Western Canada’s Homecomings of the Great War, 1915–1919.” Migrations & Gatherings in the West: Western Canadian History Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 12–15 September.
2024 “A Very Tuberculous Life: Family and Max King’s Private Struggle with Tuberculosis, 1913–1917.” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, 19–21 June.
2024 “Unlocking Big Data: Artificial Intelligence and Canada’s Great War Pension Files.” The Climate of History: Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, 17–19 June [Panel withdrew].
2023 “The White Plague’s Long Shadow: A Disability History of Tuberculous Veterans in the Twentieth Century.” Borders: 13th Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, Windsor, ON, 26–28 September.
2023 “The Tuberculous Brotherhood: Patients, Veteranhood and Life in Canadian Sanatoria, 1915–23.” Difficult Histories in a Global Context: Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, 29–31 May.
span>2023 “The Disabled Lunger: A Case Study of First World War Veterans.” Reckoning and Reimagining Health Histories: The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, 27–29 May.
2022 “A Disability History of Tuberculous Veterans after the First World War.” Public Histories of Health and Medicine: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Conference, 4–5 June [virtual]. Awarded the H.N. Segall Prize for best student paper.
