Areas of Research

Table of Contents

Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and The Caribbean
Canada
The Classical, Medieval and Early Modern World
Global, Transnational, and International
Modern Europe
United States
Women, Gender and Sexuality
Public History

Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and The Caribbean

Faculty	Expertise
Hussam Ahmed	Social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Ottoman empire, globalization.
Audra Diptée	Africa and the Caribbean, Slavery, Race Relations, Critical Applied History and Historical Consciousness; children and childhood.
Chinnaiah Jangram	Dalit Studies, Modern South Asian Social and Intellectual History, Caste, Gender and Race, Colonial Modernity and Anti-Caste Histories, Life Writings, Telugu Dalit Literature, Politics of Emancipation, Democracy and Citizenship.
Jacob Kovalio	Modern Japan, diplomatic and political; Japanese and Asian nationalism / racism / antisemitism; Japan, East Asia and Islam in modern times.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera	Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.

Canada

Faculty	Expertise
Joanna Dean	Environmental history; animal history; 19th-20th c. women’s and gender history.
Michel Hogue	Canada, U.S., 19th-20th Century, Metis & First Nations histories, North American borderlands, Great Plains.
Normal Hillmer	20th c. diplomatic and political history; military affairs and defence policy; Anglo-Canadian and Canadian-American relations; politics and leadership; peace operations and conflict resolution.
Alexandra Nahwegahbow	Historical Indigenous art, historical belongings in museums and galleries, creative and curatorial projects, visual and material culture from traditional territories in the Great Lakes region, material histories of Indigenous childcare and the roles of children and young people in Indigenous communities.
Jacob Kovalio	Canada in the Asia Pacific.
Laura Madokoro	History of migration, refugee history and the history of humanitarianism, settler colonialism, human rights, and race.
Dominique Marshall	19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in international perspective.
James Opp	19th-20th c. social, cultural, and religious history; history of the body & gender; photography and visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive; western Canada.
John C. Walsh	18th-20th c. social history; governmentality; state formation; family and community; spatial histories.

The Classical, Medieval and Early Modern World

Faculty	Expertise
David Dean	early modern theatre, witchcraft, and political culture.
Shawn Graham	Roman economics and social networks, Digital media for researching Archaeology and History, Computational Creativity.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera	18th-19th c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.
Paul Nelles	16-18th c. France and Italy; intellectual and cultural history; religious cultures; history of the book and libraries; historical writing; history of food.
Rod Phillips	18th-19th c. social history; the family in Europe; food, drink, and diet in early modern and modern Europe; sexuality; France during the Old Regime and the Revolution.
Marc Saurette	Medieval cultural and religious history, especially monasticism, chronicle traditions, discourses of emotion and literacy.
Johannes C. Wolfart	Early Modern Germany; Reformation/Confessionalization; Vernacular History Writing in Early Modern Germany (“Chronicles”); Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.

Global, Transnational, and International

Faculty	Expertise
Hussam Ahmed	Social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Ottoman empire, globalization.
Audra Diptée	Africa and the Caribbean, Slavery, Race Relations, Critical Applied History and Historical Consciousness; children and childhood.
Normal Hillmer	20th c. diplomatic and political history; military affairs and defence policy; Anglo-Canadian and Canadian-American relations; politics and leadership; peace operations and conflict resolution.
Chinnaiah Jangram	Dalit Studies, Modern South Asian Social and Intellectual History, Caste, Gender and Race, Colonial Modernity and Anti-Caste Histories, Life Writings, Telugu Dalit Literature, Politics of Emancipation, Democracy and Citizenship.
Andrew Johnston	Late 19th to 20th c. United States history; imperialism and foreign relations; liberalism and pluralism in American social thought; history of international thought; nuclear strategy; international feminist pacifism; Pragmatism; international history of the social sciences.
Danielle Kinsey	19c Britain and Empire, diamonds, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, sensory paradigms and material culture, the body, gender and sexuality.
Laura Madokoro	History of migration, refugee history and the history of humanitarianism, settler colonialism, human rights, and race.
Dominique Marshall	19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in transnational perspectives perspective.
Candace Sobers	History of International Relations; Empire and decolonization; Revolutions and movements of national liberation; Transnational networks; Foreign relations history, American and African political cultures.

Modern Europe

Faculty	Expertise
Jennifer Evans	20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.
Erica Fraser	Russian and Soviet history; gender history; Cold War culture; military cultures and postwar societies; daily life, popular culture, and sports and leisure in communist states.
Danielle Kinsey	19c Britain and Empire, diamonds, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, sensory paradigms and material culture, the body, gender and sexuality.
Rod Phillips	18th-19th c. social history; the family in Europe; food, drink, and diet in early modern and modern Europe; sexuality; France during the Old Regime and the Revolution.
Pamela Walker	Modern British and gender history; history of Christianity, racial identity and racism in comparative historical perspective.
Susan Whitney	20th c. social and political; modern France; youth and women’s history.

United States

Faculty	Expertise
Michel Hogue	Canada, U.S., 19th-20th Century, Metis & First Nations histories, North American borderlands, Great Plains.
Andrew Johnston	Late 19th to 20th c. United States history; imperialism; pluralism in U.S. social thought; history of international thought; cultural theory and nuclear strategy; international feminism and pacifism; Pragmatism; international history of the social sciences.
James Miller	19th c. the American South, slavery and abolitionism; the slave trade, plantation societies and abolition movements in the Atlantic world.
Candace Sobers	American and African political cultures, history of International Relations, empire and decolonization, revolutions and movements of national liberation, transnational networks, foreign relations history.

Women, Gender and Sexuality

Faculty	Expertise
Joanna Dean	19th-20th c. women’s and gender history; religion; environmental history.
Audra Diptée	Slavery in Africa and the Atlantic slave trade; comparative slavery and emancipation in the Americas; 18th and 19th c. Caribbean history; children and childhood; race relations.
Jennifer Evans	20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.
Patrizia Gentile	Canadian history of sexuality and gender; history of the body; history of beauty contests; queer history; national security and sexual regulation.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera	18th-19th c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.
Rod Phillips	History of the family in Early Modern and Modern Europe.
James Opp	19th-20th c. social, cultural, and religious history; history of the body & gender; photography and visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive; western Canada.
Dominique Marshall	19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in international perspective.
Pamela Walker	Modern British and gender history; history of Christianity, racial identity and racism in comparative historical perspective.
Susan Whitney	20th c. social and political; modern France; youth and women’s history.

Public History

Faculty	Expertise
Joanna Dean	19th-20th c. women’s and gender history; religion; environmental history.
Audra Diptée	Slavery in Africa and the Atlantic slave trade; comparative slavery and emancipation in the Americas; 18th and 19th c. Caribbean history; children and childhood; race relations.
Jennifer Evans	20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.
Shawn Graham	Roman economics and social networks, Digital media for researching Archaeology and History, Computational Creativity.
James Opp	19th-20th c. social, cultural, and religious history; history of the body & gender; photography and visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive; western Canada.
John C. Walsh	18th-20th c. social history; governmentality; state formation; family and community; spatial histories.