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Our Researchers
Department of History researchers conduct research on a variety of areas
![David Bercuson Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Bercuson.jpg?itok=vyOueAl_)
David Bercuson
Research Interests
Modern Canadian political, military and diplomatic history; strategic studies
![Lyndsay Campbell Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Campbell.jpg?itok=rkIEsDfa)
Lyndsay Campbell
Research Interests
Canadian and American legal, constitutional and social history, especially as related to expression, race and religion; transmission of legal ideas through texts and publishing.
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![Paul Chastko Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Chastko.jpg?itok=fY3pCuL1)
Paul Chastko
Research Interests
Military/Diplomatic History; Political History; and United States
![Cleland](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/Cleland1.jpg?itok=K7zbnnLD)
Beau Cleland
Research Interests
U.S. military and diplomatic history; Canadian history; political history
![George Colpitts Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Colpitts.jpg?itok=GpB0zxY0)
George Colpitts
Research Interests
Conservation and preservation policies, fur farming; Environmental History; First Nations History; the Canadian North; and Western Canadian History
![Petra Dolata Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Dolata.jpg?itok=5QJ_QJl7)
Petra Dolata
Research Interests
European and North American energy history (after 1945); history and politics of the Canadian and circumpolar arctic.
![Warren Elofson](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Elofson.jpg?itok=6N7dk2Is)
Warren Elofson
Research Interests
18th-century British history; Canadian agriculture; Edmund Burke; and the Rockingham Whigs
![Alexander Hill Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Hill.jpg?itok=pmLow3my)
![Nancy Janovicek Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Janovicek.jpg?itok=WnfMBB-r)
Nancy Janovicek
Research Interests
Canadian Women's Movement; History and Ethics Policy; and The Back-to-the-land Movement in the West Kootenays, British Columbia
![Amelia Kiddle Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Kiddle.jpg?itok=Wax-YpFs)
![Courtnay Konshuh Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Konshuh.jpg?itok=eRwSvFan)
Courtnay Konshuh
Research Interests
Medieval History; Early Medieval England; and Early Medieval Scandinavia
![Hendrick Kraay Headhshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Kraay.jpg?itok=cmnnoPuA)
Hendrik Kraay
Research Interests
Civic rituals; Slavery and race; and Social, cultural, political, and military history of Brazil
![Ken MacMillan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/MacMillan.jpg?itok=73ijN4tX)
Ken MacMillan
Research Interests
Early modern Europe; Early modern England (legal and imperial); and English Atlantic World, 1500-1800
![David Marshall Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Marshall.jpg?itok=RrXG1Me1)
David Marshall
Research Interests
Canadian social and intellectual history, particularly relating to religion; the history of popular culture in Canada; and the issue of secularization
![Anne Moore Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-06/Moore.jpg?itok=XCGvWDnL)
Anne Moore
Research Interests
History of war, death and women; Religious studies; and mythology.
![Jewel Spangler Head Shot Image](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2021-09/Jewel%20Spangler%20Head%20Shot.jpg?itok=dW2k9bhz)
Jewel Spangler
Research Interests
American social and cultural history 1607-1820; American South; and Early American religion
![Frank Stahnisch Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Stahnisch.jpg?itok=8Od_JHW1)
Frank Stahnisch
Research Interests
History and Philosophy of the Neurosciences; History of Physiology; Medical Visualizations throughout History; and Modern Public Mental Health
![Timothy Stapleton Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Stapleton.jpg?itok=pW3Ka5L3)
![Annette Timm Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Timm.jpg?itok=9lxlNgXC)
![Frank Towers Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Towers.jpg?itok=VRiHnROh)
Frank Towers
Research Interests
History of race, labour, and the U.S. South; Nineteenth century United States; and Political history
![Glenn Wilkinson](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Wilkinson.jpg?itok=7OvHrU5F)
Glenn Wilkinson
Research Interests
Post war Britain; Military History; and Guerrilla Warfare
![David Wright Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-11/David%20Wright%20FGS%20photo.jpg?itok=4F6wSFvN)
David Wright
Research Interests
Chinese military history; Mongols, the Mongol conquest of China, and the Mongol world empire; North American journalists and missionaries in China, ca. 1858-1949; possible connections between Asian Xiongnu and the European Huns; Premodern Chinese foreign relations and frontier administration; Qing Taiwan; and World history