Gavin Brockett
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Muslim Studies Option

• Modern Middle East
• Social history of modern Turkey

Tarah Brookfield
Associate Professor

• Cold War Canada
• Childhood and family
• Women and gender
• War and society
• Peace education and activism

Blaine Chiasson
Associate Professor
Graduate Officer

• Modern China
• Sino-Soviet/Russian border
• Manchuria
• Culture, social and political history of Russian refugees in China
• Chinese urban history
• 19th- and 20th-century Chinese minority and ethnic policy

Cynthia Comacchio
Professor

• Canadian social and cultural history, post-Confederation
• The culture of childhood and youth
• Gender and family
• The Great War and modernity
• Health, medicine and social policy
• Society and culture of the interwar years

Adam Crerar
Associate Professor

• Social and cultural history
• Rural life
• Province of Ontario

Darryl Dee
Associate Professor

• Politics in Ancien Régime France
• State and society during the reign of Louis XIV
• Power and authority in early modern Europe
• Europe and the Islamic world in the 17th and 18th centuries

Peter Farrugia
Associate Professor

• 19th- and 20th-century Britain and France
• War and peace
• History of Brantford
• Memory in World War I
• Impact of museums on perceptions of the Great War in Britain and France

Leonard Friesen
Professor
Director of Internationalization, Faculty of Arts

• History of international relations
• Russian studies
• The West as modern problem

Jeff Grischow
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa

• Global history
• African history
• Comparative development studies
• Race, imperialism and slavery

Mark Humphries
Associate Professor
Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS)

• War and society
• First World War
• History of medicine including mental illness and epidemic disease
• Modern Canadian social history

Rob Kristofferson
Professor

• 19th-century Canada
• Labour and working class history
• Business history
• Social history

Amy Milne-Smith
Associate Professor

• Victorian Britain and the British Empire
• 19th-century cultural history
• Masculinity and gender history
• Representations of mental illness
• Cultural constructions of class

David Monod
Professor

• Modern U.S. history
• Art and entertainment in early 20th-century American culture
• Vaudeville

Darren Mulloy
Professor
Chair, Department of History

• American history post-1945
• American political extremism
• Intellectual history and political rhetoric

Susan Neylan
Associate Professor

• 19th- and 20th-century Native-missionary encounters
• Aboriginal Canadian history
• Aboriginal peoples and colonialism
• Native North America
• Comparative Indigenous ethnohistory

Chris Nighman
Associate Professor

• Late medieval and early renaissance intellectual history
• Latin florilegia
• Early Italian humanism
• Conciliar sermons
• Digital humanities

Eva Plach
Associate Professor

• Modern Polish history
• Polish-Jewish history
• History of animal welfare

Roger Sarty
Professor

• British, Canadian and American naval and air operations in the Battles of the Atlantic in World War I and World War II
• Canadian defence policy and civil military relations 1860-1945
• Canadian military historiography

David Smith
Assistant Professor

• Early modern Britain and the Atlantic world
• Anglo-Canadian political traditions
• The Atlantic economy
• Exploration during the Age of European Discovery

Kevin Spooner
Associate Professor

• Canadian foreign policy
• Canada’s contribution to international peacekeeping
• Canada’s relations with Africa

Dana Weiner
Associate Professor

• Grassroots politics
• Social reform
• Debates over rights in early U.S. history

Suzanne Zeller
Professor

• Physical sciences in Canada
• Science in the circumpolar Arctic