Graduate Faculty
David M. K. Sheinin
Director, MA History
Professor, History
MA, PhD (Connecticut)
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)
Research interests: modern Canadian political, cultural and diplomatic history
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
Professor and Chair, History
PhD (Granada)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
Marion Boulby
Associate Professor
BA (Queens), MA (London), PhD (Toronto)
Research interests: history of the Modern Middle East from the 19th Ottoman era to the present day
Janet Miron
Associate Professor, History
BA (McGill); MA, PhD (York)
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)
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
Adjunct Faculty
Michael Eamon
Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
BA Hon. (Ottawa); MPhil (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Queen’s)
Research Interests: Print Culture, Enlightenment, Cultural and Intellectual History
Katrina Keefer
Adjunct Professor
BA (Trent), MA (Trent), PhD (York University)
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
Jaques Vest
Research Associate, University of Michigan
Historical Consultant
PhD (Michigan)
Alex Souchen
AMS Postdoctoral Fellow
Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
BA MA (Ottawa), PhD (Western)
Research Interests: Warfare, Canadian society, and the Environment
Devon Stillwell
Course Instructor
Trent University
BA, MA (Lakehead), PhD (McMaster)
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
Ryan Vieira
Research Facilitator
Trent University Office of Research and Innovation
BA MA (Carleton), PhD (McMaster)
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Britain and the British World, cultural and transnational histories