{"id":25869,"date":"2025-02-28T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/history\/?page_id=25869"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:48:39","slug":"areas-of-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/areas-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Areas of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Areas of Research\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Table of Contents\n <\/h2>\n
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\n \n 1.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and The Caribbean\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 2.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Canada\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 3.\n <\/span>\n\n \n The Classical, Medieval and Early Modern World\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 4.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Global, Transnational, and International\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 5.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Modern Europe\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 6.\n <\/span>\n\n \n United States\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 7.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Women, Gender and Sexuality\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 8.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Public History\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and The Caribbean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Hussam Ahmed<\/a><\/td>Social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Ottoman empire, globalization.<\/td><\/tr>
Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a><\/td>Africa and the Caribbean, Slavery, Race Relations, Critical Applied History and Historical Consciousness; children and childhood.<\/td><\/tr>
Chinnaiah Jangram<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Jacob Kovalio<\/a><\/td>Modern Japan, diplomatic and political; Japanese and Asian nationalism \/ racism \/ antisemitism; Japan, East Asia and Islam in modern times.<\/td><\/tr>
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera<\/a><\/td>Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Canada<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Joanna Dean<\/a><\/td>Environmental history; animal history; 19th-20th c. women\u2019s and gender history.<\/td><\/tr>
Michel Hogue<\/a><\/td>Canada, U.S., 19th-20th Century, Metis & First Nations histories, North American borderlands, Great Plains.<\/td><\/tr>
Normal Hillmer<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Alexandra Nahwegahbow<\/a><\/td>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. <\/td><\/tr>
Jacob Kovalio<\/a><\/td>Canada in the Asia Pacific.<\/td><\/tr>
Laura Madokoro<\/a><\/td>History of migration, refugee history and the history of humanitarianism, settler colonialism, human rights, and race. <\/td><\/tr>
Dominique Marshall<\/a><\/td>19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children\u2019s rights and humanitarian aid in international perspective.<\/td><\/tr>
James Opp<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
John C. Walsh<\/a><\/td>18th-20th c. social history; governmentality; state formation; family and community; spatial histories.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Classical, Medieval and Early Modern World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
David Dean<\/a><\/td>early modern theatre, witchcraft, and political culture.<\/td><\/tr>
Shawn Graham<\/a><\/td>Roman economics and social networks, Digital media for researching Archaeology and History, Computational Creativity.<\/td><\/tr>
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera<\/a><\/td>18th-19th c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.<\/td><\/tr>
Paul Nelles<\/a><\/td>16-18th c. France and Italy; intellectual and cultural history; religious cultures; history of the book and libraries; historical writing; history of food.<\/td><\/tr>
Rod Phillips<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Marc Saurette<\/a><\/td>Medieval cultural and religious history, especially monasticism, chronicle traditions, discourses of emotion and literacy.<\/td><\/tr>
Johannes C. Wolfart<\/a><\/td>Early Modern Germany; Reformation\/Confessionalization; Vernacular History Writing in Early Modern Germany (\u201cChronicles\u201d); Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Global, Transnational, and International
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Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Hussam Ahmed<\/a><\/td>Social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Ottoman empire, globalization.<\/td><\/tr>
Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a><\/td>Africa and the Caribbean, Slavery, Race Relations, Critical Applied History and Historical Consciousness; children and childhood.<\/td><\/tr>
Normal Hillmer<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Chinnaiah Jangram<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Andrew Johnston<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Danielle Kinsey<\/a><\/td>19c Britain and Empire, diamonds, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, sensory paradigms and material culture, the body, gender and sexuality.<\/td><\/tr>
Laura Madokoro<\/a><\/td>History of migration, refugee history and the history of humanitarianism, settler colonialism, human rights, and race. <\/td><\/tr>
Dominique Marshall<\/a><\/td>19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children\u2019s rights and humanitarian aid in transnational perspectives perspective.<\/td><\/tr>
Candace Sobers<\/a><\/td>History of International Relations; Empire and decolonization; Revolutions and movements of national liberation; Transnational networks; Foreign relations history, American and African political cultures.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Modern Europe
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Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Jennifer Evans<\/a><\/td>20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.<\/td><\/tr>
Erica Fraser<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Danielle Kinsey<\/a><\/td>19c Britain and Empire, diamonds, consumption, imperialism and colonialism, global and transnational histories, sensory paradigms and material culture, the body, gender and sexuality.<\/td><\/tr>
Rod Phillips<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Pamela Walker<\/a><\/td>Modern British and gender history; history of Christianity, racial identity and racism in comparative historical perspective.<\/td><\/tr>
Susan Whitney<\/a><\/td>20th c. social and political; modern France; youth and women\u2019s history.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Michel Hogue<\/a><\/td>Canada, U.S., 19th-20th Century, Metis & First Nations histories, North American borderlands, Great Plains.<\/td><\/tr>
Andrew Johnston<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
James Miller<\/a><\/td>19th c. the American South, slavery and abolitionism; the slave trade, plantation societies and abolition movements in the Atlantic world.<\/td><\/tr>
Candace Sobers<\/a><\/td>American and African political cultures, history of International Relations, empire and decolonization, revolutions and movements of national liberation, transnational networks, foreign relations history.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Women, Gender and Sexuality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Joanna Dean<\/a><\/td>19th-20th c. women\u2019s and gender history; religion; environmental history.<\/td><\/tr>
Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Jennifer Evans<\/a><\/td>20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.<\/td><\/tr>
Patrizia Gentile<\/a><\/td>Canadian history of sexuality and gender; history of the body; history of beauty contests; queer history; national security and sexual regulation.<\/td><\/tr>
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera<\/a><\/td>18th-19th c. Latin America, especially Mexico; environmental and social history; gender and family; popular culture and violence.<\/td><\/tr>
Rod Phillips<\/a><\/td>History of the family in Early Modern and Modern Europe.<\/td><\/tr>
James Opp<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Dominique <\/a>Marshall<\/a><\/td>19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children\u2019s rights and humanitarian aid in international perspective.<\/td><\/tr>
Pamela <\/a>Walker<\/a><\/td>Modern British and gender history; history of Christianity, racial identity and racism in comparative historical perspective.<\/td><\/tr>
Susan Whitney<\/a><\/td>20th c. social and political; modern France; youth and women\u2019s history.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Public History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Faculty<\/th>Expertise<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Joanna Dean<\/a><\/td>19th-20th c. women\u2019s and gender history; religion; environmental history.<\/td><\/tr>
Audra Dipt\u00e9e<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
Jennifer Evans<\/a><\/td>20th c. social, cultural; Germany and East Central Europe; history of sexuality; Cold War, memory, everyday life; social media and far rights.<\/td><\/tr>
Shawn Graham<\/a><\/td>Roman economics and social networks, Digital media for researching Archaeology and History, Computational Creativity.<\/td><\/tr>
James Opp<\/a><\/td>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.<\/td><\/tr>
John C. Walsh<\/a><\/td>18th-20th c. social history; governmentality; state formation; family and community; spatial histories.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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