
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 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
Research Interests
Military/Diplomatic History; Political History; and United States

Beau Cleland
Research Interests
U.S. military and diplomatic history; Canadian history; political history

George Colpitts
Research Interests
Conservation and preservation policies, fur farming; Environmental History; First Nations History; the Canadian North; and Western Canadian 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


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


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



Frank Towers
Research Interests
History of race, labour, 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