Our Researchers
Department of History researchers conduct research on a variety of areas
David Bercuson
Research Interests
Modern Canadian political, military and diplomatic history; strategic studies
Lyndsay Campbell
Research Interests
Canadian and American colonial period; Canadian social and intellectual history, particularly relating to religion; Nineteenth century United States; and Slavery and race.
Paul Chastko
Research Interests
Military/Diplomatic History; Political History; and United States
George Colpitts
Research Interests
Conservation and preservation policies, fur farming; Environmental History; First Nations History; the Canadian North; and Western Canadian History
Heather Devine
Research Interests
Canadian Native history; American Indian policy; Western Canadian ethnic history; museum and archival studies; cultural resource management; Aboriginal ethnic community and family formation; heritage education and interpretation; and public history
Petra Dolata
Research Interests
European and North American energy history (after 1945); history and politics of the Canadian and circumpolar arctic.
Warren Elofson
Research Interests
18th-century British history; Canadian agriculture; Edmund Burke; and the Rockingham Whigs
John Ferris
Research Interests
19th- and 20th-century Imperial history; 20th-century British and European diplomatic history; Inter-war Europe; and Modern warfare
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
Mark Konnert
Research Interests
Early modern France and Europe; Religious toleration; the Reformation and Religious Wars; and Urban history
Courtnay Konshuh
Research Interests
Medieval History; Early Medieval England; and Early Medieval Scandinavia
Hendrik Kraay
Research Interests
Civic rituals; Slavery and race; and Social, cultural, political, and military history of Brazil
Ken MacMillan
Research Interests
Early modern Europe; Early modern England (legal and imperial); and English Atlantic World, 1500-1800
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
Research Interests
History of war, death and women; Religious studies; and mythology.
Jewel Spangler
Research Interests
American social and cultural history 1607-1820; American South; and Early American religion
Frank Stahnisch
Research Interests
History and Philosophy of the Neurosciences; History of Physiology; Medical Visualizations throughout History; and Modern Public Mental Health
Paul Stortz
Research Interests
Cultural, Social, Political, and Intellectual History of Education and Universities; History of Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in Higher Education; Visual Images in Historical Cultures; Canadian Immigration; and History of Editing and Publishing Cultures
Frank Towers
Research Interests
History of race, labor, and the U.S. South; Nineteenth century United States; and Political history
Glenn Wilkinson
Research Interests
Post war Britain; Military History; and Guerrilla Warfare
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