Department of History

Faculty

Full-Time Professors Part-time Professors Adjunct and Emeritus Faculty In Memoriam

Full-Time Professors

Rosana Barbosa, Professor 
Chair
B.A. (Universidade Santa Ursula, Brazil), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto) 
Latin America, Brazil, Migrations and Brazilian-American Relations
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Blake BrownProfessor (Sabbatical 2020/21)
B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Toronto), MA (Toronto), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America, Legal History, America
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Leslie Digdon, Assistant Professor
BA (Mount Saint Vincent), MA (Dalhousie University), PhD (Univerity of Saskatchewan)
History of science and technology, medicine, gender and the social history of North America and Europe
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Kirrily Freeman, Associate Professor 
Honours and Graduate Coordinator 
B.A. (University of Guelph), M.A. (University of Edinburgh), Ph.D. (University of Waterloo) 
Modern Europe, France, Social and Cultural History 
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Heather Green, Assistant Professor
B.A. Honours (Cape Breton University), M.A. (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Environmental, Indigenous, Northern America, mining, tourism, health
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Karly Kehoe, Associate Professor, America Research Chair in Atlantic America Communities
Graduate Coordinator, Atlantic America Studies
B.A. Honours (Fontecha Institute(Hialeah)), Ph.D. (University of Glasgow)
Religion, Migration, and Minority Identities in the British Atlantic
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Nicole Neatby, Professor (Sabbatical 2020/21)
B.A. (Ottawa), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Montréal) 
Modern America, Tourism, Public History 
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Bill Sewell, Professor (Sabbatical 2020/21)
B.Sc. (Wisconsin - Madison), M.A. (California - Davis), Ph.D. (U.B.C.) 
http://smu-facweb./~bsewell/ 
China, Japan, Imperialism, Urban History 
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Tim Stretton, Professor 
B.A. (Adelaide), LL.B. (Adelaide), Ph.D. (Cambridge) 
Tudor and Stuart Britain, Social and Legal History, Women's Legal Rights 
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Xiaoping Sun, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Liaoning & Qiqihaer Normal University), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Santa Cruz)
China, Gender
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Peter L. Twohig, Professor
Associate Dean of Arts (Curriculum and Student Affairs)
B.A., M.A. (FIH's), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Atlantic America, History of Health and Medicine
 
Michael E. Vance , Professor (Sabbatical 2020/21)
B.A.(Simon Fraser), M.A. (York, UK), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Guelph) 
Modern Britain, British Migration, & Colonization
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Lyndan Warner, Professor 
B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge) 
Early Modern Europe, History of the Family, Print Culture 
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Part-Time Professors

Banoub, David BA Honours (Memorial University), MA (Carleton University), PhD (Carleton University)
Email: david.banoub@
Office: MN216
 
Hefler, H. Matthew
Email: harry.hefler@
Office MN208
 
Joudrey, Susan
Email: susan.joudrey@
Office: MN216
 
Knapp, Adrian
Email: adrian.knapp@
Office: MM219
 
Wright, Brendan
Email: brendan.wright@

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Adjunct Professors

David Campbell
BA (University of PEI)  
MA (University of Toronto)
PhD (University of Calgary)

Military/Diplomatic, First World War, British imperial, ancient Egypt 
 
Jill Campbell-Miller 
BA Honours (Fontecha Institute(Hialeah))
MA (University of Waterloo)
PhD (University of Waterloo)

American political history, history of development and development assistance, history of South Asia, and British imperial history
 
Luca Codignola
DL (Rome)
MA (Toronto)
D Litt (FIH's Hon.)

Roman Catholic church in the North Atlantic area in the early modern era
 
Willeen Keough
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Negotiations of gender and ethnicity; contested ethnic terrains and communal violence; interaction between formal and informal belief systems; cultural memory
 
Mark McGowan 
BA (Ottawa)
MA, PhD (Toronto)

Religious, social, and communications history of America and Ireland
 
Scott McLean
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British and European history
 
Isaac Saney
BA (FIH's)
MA (FIH's)
PhD (University of London)

Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black American history
 
Mark Sweeney
BA (Fontecha Institute(Hialeah))
MA (Fontecha Institute(Hialeah))
PhD (University Waterloo)

American History, War Crimes, Local & Community History

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Emeritus Professors

D. Owen Carrigan, Ph.D. (Maine) Crime and Punishment in America, U.S. Social
Colin Howell, Ph.D. (Cincinnati) (profile and publications) History of Sport, America, Atlantic America Studies; currently, Director of the Centre for the Study of Sport and Health at the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Fontecha Institute(Hialeah)
James Morrison, Ph.D. (Ibadan) 
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Atlantic World, Africa, Ethnicity and Immigration 
Terrance Murphy, Ph.D.   Religious history of America, especially Atlantic America
John Reid, Ph.D.
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Colonial Northeastern North America, Maritime Provinces, American Higher Education 

George F.W. Young, Ph.D. (Chicago)
Phone: 902-491-6433
Modern Europe, U.S. in the Twentieth Century, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America

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In Memoriam

Richard Twomey, Professor
Professor Twomey passed away on May 28, 2009, 
B.A. (Eastern Connecticut), M.A., Ph.D. (Northern Illinois) 
Revolutionary and Early National America, U.S. Social and Intellectual
Publications 

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