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Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Audra Diptee 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.
Susanne Klausen Modern sub-Saharan Africa, especially Southern Africa; medical, social and gender history
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

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Marilyn Barber 19th-20 c. social, women’s and gender history; migration to Canada after 1870; religion and education in western Canada
Bruce Curtis State formation, moral regulation and knowledge forms; development of the “social and moral sciences”; theories of governance; identifying practices and powers of state; the administration of subjectivity; reflexive sociology; population; classification; sexuality; science and technology; comparative educational development. Area interest: the Canadas and the British Empire c. 1780-1900.
Joanna Dean Environmental history; animal history; 19th-20th c. women’s and gender history.
Bruce Elliott 18th-19th c. social history; immigration from 1760 to 1875; history of eastern Ontario and western Quebec
Michel Hogue Canada, U.S., 19th-20th Century, Metis & First Nations histories, North American borderlands, Great Plains
Norman 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
Jacob Kovalio Canada in the Asia Pacific
Paul Litt 20th c. cultural and intellectual history; cultural nationalism, cultural policy, public history and public memory
Brian McKillop 19th-20th c. intellectual and cultural history; historiography, theory and method in history; religion, education (public and higher), disciplinary cultures, books and publishing, the intersection of high culture and popular culture
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
J. Barry Wright
Political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history; Utilitarianism, 19th century criminal law reform and codification; Comparative study of rule of law issues and 19th century British colonial and post colonial governance

The Classical, Medieval and Early Modern World

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
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
Roy Laird 14th-16th c. Italy; Intellectual history; history of science and philosophy; Medieval natural philosophy and the science of motion
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
Mark Phillips 18th – 19th c. Britain; Renaissance Italy; intellectual history; Enlightenment Europe; Historiography and the philosophy of history
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

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Audra Diptee Africa and the Caribbean, slavery, race relations; critical applied history and historical consciousness; children and childhood; race, power, memory, and identity in Global South contexts
Norman 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 Jangam My research and writing seeks to illuminate the histories of marginalization and resistance through the lens of Dalits. It attempts to construct a historical narrative of anti-caste epistemology as a stepping-stone to an ethical and egalitarian world. Thus, research and writing have two elements, namely, Dalit experience (life writing) and engagement (both intellectual and political).
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
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
Daniel McNeil Africana Studies; Black Atlantic Studies; Critical Mixed Race Studies; Cultural Criticism & Theory; Decolonial Studies; Diaspora Studies; Immigration, Multiculturalism and “Race Relations”; Indigenous and Canadian Studies; Media and Cultural Studies
Candance 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

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Alek Bennett 20th c. international, especially 1890-1945; war and society in Britain, 1890-1956
Jennifer Evans 20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights
Peter Fitzgerald 19th-20th c. political and economic; the international oil industry; peace diplomacy in the First World War; peace-making and peace-building, 1919-1934
Danielle Kinsey 19c Britain and Empire, trade, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, visual and material culture, 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

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Fred Goodwin 20th c. national politics, foreign relations, and popular culture in the fifty years following the outbreak of World War II
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; liberalism and 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 & Sexuality

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
Marilyn Barber 19th-20 c. social, women’s and gender history; migration to Canada after 1870; religion and education in western Canada
Joanna Dean 19th-20th c. women’s and gender history; religion; environmental history
Audra Diptee 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
Patrizia Gentile Canadian history of sexuality and gender; history of the body; history of beauty contests; queer history; national security and sexual regulation
Susanne Klausen Modern sub-Saharan Africa, especially Southern Africa; medical, social and gender history
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera 18th-19th c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence
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
Rod Phillips History of the family in Early Modern and Modern Europe
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

Name Areas of Graduate Supervision
David Dean hi/storytelling through performance, historical representation (especially in theatre, film, reenactments, monuments, museums), historical controversies in the public sphere
Audra Diptee race, power, memory, and identity in Global South contexts
Bruce Elliott local history
Jennifer Evans public memory, national identity and everyday life
Shawn Graham digital history
Paul Litt cultural nationalism, cultural policy, public history and public memory
James Opp photography and visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive
Mark Phillips historical distance
John C. Walsh 18th-20th c. social history; governmentality; state formation; family and community; spatial histories

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