Graduate Faculty
David M. K. Sheinin
Professor, Director of History Graduate Program
M.A., Ph.D. (Connecticut)
Office: Lady Eaton College S101.9
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7843
Email: dsheinin@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Latin American History and the International History of the United States with special interest in Twentieth-century Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia. David’s current research focuses on Human Rights and Dictatorship; Boxing and Society; and Nuclear Politics.
Robert Wright
Professor
M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Office: Trent Durham Campus, Office 167
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 5046
Email: rawright@trentu
Research Interests: Modern Canadian Political, Cultural and Diplomatic History.
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
Professor
Ph.D. (Granada)
Office: Lady Eaton College S101.8
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7095
Email: acazorla@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern Spanish History; Fascism and Dictatorships; Modern European History, Transnational History.
Caroline Durand
Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Montréal); Ph.D. (McGill)
Office: Lady Eaton College S103
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7109
Email: carolinedurand@trentu.ca
Research Interests: History of Food; Cultural, Social and Political History of Québec; Women’s History.
Christopher P. Dummitt
Associate Professor
B.A. (Trent); M.A. (Dalhousie); Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)
Email: cdummitt@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Canada's Political, Cultural, and Intellectual History and has a growing side interest in Research Methods and Issues of Academic Freedom.
Finis Dunaway
Professor
B.A. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Office: Lady Eaton College N115
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7026
Email: finisdunaway@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern United States Cultural and Environmental History; American Studies; Visual Culture; Mass Media and the Environment; Arctic Landscapes.
Ivana Elbl
Professor
M.A. (Charles, Toronto); Ph.D. (Toronto)
Office: Lady Eaton College S114
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7833
Email: ielbl@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Late Medieval History, particularly Portugal and its Nobility; Early European Overseas Expansion. with emphasis on Africa; Emotions, Values, and Attitudes in the Late Medieval Period.
Fiona Harris-Stoertz
Associate Professor
B.A. (University of Calgary); M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Office: Champlain College K4
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7097
Email: fharris@trentu.ca
Research Interests: High Middle Ages, 1050-1330, especially England and Northern France (Anglo-Norman and Angevin Realms); Life Cycle; Fertility, Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding; Childhood, Adolescence, and Education; and Saints' Cults and Miracle Stories.
Jennine Hurl-Eamon
Professor, Chair of History Department
B.A. (Western); M.A. (Queen's); Ph.D. (York)
Office: Traill College WH 108
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7197
Email: jenninehurleamon@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe, especially England, with a focus upon Gender, Childhood and the Military; Crime and Criminal Justice; Plebeian Marriage and Family Life.
Carolyn Kay
Professor
M.Phil. (Oxford); M.A., Ph.D. (Yale)
Email: ckay@trentu.ca
Research Interests: The History of German Childhood, 1871-1945; World War One and German Society; Art in Modern German History; the Holocaust.
Whitney Lackenbauer
Professor in Canadian Studies, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Study of the Canadian North
M.A., Ph.D. (Calgary)
Email: pwhitneylackenbauer@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern Canadian and Circumpolar History; Political Studies; Military History/War and Society; and Indigenous-state Relations in Canada
Janet Miron
Associate Professor
B.A. (McGill); M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Office: Lady Eaton College S104
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7834
Email: janetmiron@trentu.ca
Research Interests: The History of Suicide in English-speaking Canada; Medical and Criminal History; Asylums and Prisons.
Van Nguyen-Marshall
Associate Professor
M.A., Ph.D. (British Columbia)
Office: Lady Eaton College S101.4
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7169
Email: vannguyenmarshall@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Modern Vietnamese History, focusing on Associational Life, Civil Society, and the Vietnam War.
Kevin Siena
Professor
M.A. (Rochester); Ph.D. (Toronto)
Office: Champlain College I3
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7139
Email: ksiena@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Early Modern Britain; History of Medicine; Disease and the Poor in the 18th Century; Workhouses, History of Sexuality, especially Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Adjunct Faculty
Michael Eamon
Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
B.A. (Ottawa); M.Phil. (Cambridge); M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Email: michaeleamon@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Print Culture, Enlightenment, Cultural and Intellectual History.
Nathan Hatton
Assistant Professor, Lakehead University
M.A. (Lakehead); Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Email: cnhatton@lakeheadu.ca
Dr. Hatton is an award-winning historian, whose published work interrogates the deeper personal, social, and cultural meanings attached to sport for both participants and spectators in Canadian society.
Katrina Keefer
Adjunct Professor
B.A., M.A. (Trent); Ph.D. (York)
Email: katrinakeefer@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Cultural history; the History of Identity; African History; Classical History; the History of Slavery; Body Marking and Origins; Missionary Education and Development.
Alex Souchen
AMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
B.A. M.A. (Ottawa); Ph.D. (Western)
Email: rsouchen@uwo.ca
Research Interests: Warfare, Canadian Society, and the Environment.
Devon Stillwell
Course Instructor
B.A., M.A. (Lakehead); Ph.D. (McMaster)
Email: devonstillwell@trentu.ca
Ongoing and Future Research Projects:
Monograph-length project on American eugenics and genetics in global perspective exploring the role of international scientists, organizations, and subject populations in genetic knowledge-making.
Monograph-length project on women in medical genetics in North America, focused on the lives and work of Maud Slye, Madge Thurlow Macklin, and Margery W. Shaw
Jaques Vest
Research Associate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. (Michigan)
Email: jacquesb@umich.edu
Ryan Vieira
Research Facilitator, Trent University Office of Research and Innovation
B.A., M.A. (Carleton); Ph.D. (McMaster)
Email: ryanvieira@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Britain and the British World, Cultural and Transnational Histories.