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TRENTU.CA / History / Faculty & Research / Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty

David M. K. Sheinin

Director, MA History
Professor, History
MA, PhD (Connecticut)

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
MA, PhD (Queen’s)

rawright@trentu

Research interests: modern Canadian political, cultural and diplomatic history

Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez

Professor and Chair, History
PhD (Granada)

acazorla@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Modern Spanish History; Fascism and Dictatorships; Modern European History, Transnational History

Fiona Harris-Stoertz

Associate Professor, History
BA (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)

fharris@trentu.ca

Research interests: Research interests: Medieval history, particularly England and France, 1000-1330; pregnancy, birth, childhood, and youth

Jennine Hurl-Eamon

Professor, History
Director, History Graduate Program
BA (Western), MA (Queen's), PhD (York)

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

Christopher P. Dummitt

Associate Professor, History 
BA (Trent), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Simon Fraser)

cdummitt@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Canada's political, cultural and intellectual history and have a growing a side interest in research methods and issues of academic freedom

Ivana Elbl

Professor, History
MA (Charles, Toronto); PhD (Toronto)

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

Carolyn Kay

Professor, History
MPhil (Oxford); MA, PhD (Yale)

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

Caroline Durand

Assistant Professor, History
BA, MA (Montréal); PhD (McGill)

carolinedurand@trentu.ca

Research interests: Food history; cultural, social and political history of Québec; women’s history

Finis Dunaway

Professor, History
BA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), PhD (Rutgers University)

finisdunaway@trentu.ca

Research interests:  Modern United States cultural and environmental history; American Studies; visual culture; mass media and the environment; arctic landscapes

Kevin Siena

Professor, History
MA (Rochester); PhD (Toronto)

ksiena@trentu.ca

Research interests:  Early modern Britain; history of medicine; disease and the poor in the 18th century; workhouses, history of sexuality, esp. sexually transmitted disease

Stephen Bocking

Professor, Environmental & Resource Studies
BSc, MA, PhD (Toronto)

​sbocking@trentu.ca

Research Interests: The roles of science in environmental policy and politics, Regional environmental history and biodiversity conservation, The science and politics of salmon aquaculture, The history of environmental science in northern Canada

Janet Miron

Associate Professor, History
BA (McGill); MA, PhD (York)

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, History
MA (British Columbia); PhD (British Columbia)

vannguyenmarshall@trentu.ca

Research interests: Modern Vietnamese History, focusing on associational life, civil society, and the public sphere; South Vietnamese society during the Vietnam War; youth organizations and activism

Whitney Lackenbauer

Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Study of the Canadian North
MA, PhD (Calgary)

pwhitneylackenbauer@trentu.ca

Modern Canadian and circumpolar history; political studies; military history / war and society; and Indigenous-state relations in Canada

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Eamon

Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
BA Hon. (Ottawa); MPhil (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Queen’s)

michaeleamon@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Print Culture, Enlightenment, Cultural and Intellectual History

Nathan Hatton

Assistant Professor, Lakehead University
MA (Lakehead), PhD (Waterloo)

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 
BA (Trent), MA (Trent), PhD (York University)​

katrinakeefer@trentu.ca 

Research interests: Cultural history; the history of identity; African history; Classical history; the history of slavery globally; body marking and origins; missionary education and development

Alex Souchen

AMS Postdoctoral Fellow
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
BA MA (Ottawa), PhD (Western)

rsouchen@uwo.ca

Research Interests: Warfare, Canadian society, and the Environment

Devon Stillwell

Course Instructor
Trent University
BA, MA (Lakehead), PhD (McMaster)

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
Historical Consultant
PhD (Michigan)

jacquesb@umich.edu

Ryan Vieira

Research Facilitator
Trent University Office of Research and Innovation
BA MA (Carleton), PhD (McMaster)

ryanvieira@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Britain and the British World, cultural and transnational histories

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