Historical Studies
Brian Gettler
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- 19th and 20th-century Canada; history of colonialism, the state, and capitalism; Indigenous histories; Quebec
- Canada
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- State, Politics, and Law
Office: (905) 828-3939
Languages: French
Website
Email: brian.gettler@utoronto.ca
Carrie Atkins
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Languages: Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Italian,German
Website
Email: carrie.fulton@utoronto.ca
Christoph Emmrich
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
- Nepal Burma and Tamil Nadu (India)
- Newar; Nepali, Burmese, Mon, Tamil, Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
- Religion; ritual, gender, children, girl children, time, travel and memory
- South Asia and Southeast Asia
- The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians
Office: 416-978-6463
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jens Hanssen
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Imperialism, liberalism and cosmopolitanism in the modern Mediterranean
- Post-national histories of modernity in the Middle East.
- The connection between intellectual trends and urban culture in the modern Middle East, in particular 19th. and 20th century Baghdad
- Therationalities of late Ottoman rule in the Arab provinces
Office: 416-978-314
Home: 416-530-5701
Mobile: 416-530-5701
Languages: German, Arabic, French, Turkish
Website
Email: jens.hanssen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Joan Simalchik
Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Gender and global culture
- Gender and social policy
- Genocide
- History
- Immigration and refugee policy
- International human rights and justice
- Memory and social trauma/conflict
- Migration
- Practice and experiential learning
- Refugees
- Torture and psychosocial trauma
- Women
Office: 416-988-7953
Website
Email: joan.simalchik@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Julie MacArthur
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (905) 569-4492
Email: julie.macarthur@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ken Derry
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Religion
- Indigenous Traditions
- Method and Theory
- Religion and Literature/Film
- Religion and violence
- Religion, Culture & Politics
- Teaching Religion
Office: 905-569-4492
Website
Email: ken.derry@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Laurel MacDowell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-828-5243
Website
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Lucas Wilson
Postdoctoral fellow
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- 20th and 21st-century U.S. literatures
- Affect theory
- Gender and sexuality
- Memory studies
- The Holocaust
- White Christian nationalism
Office: N/A
Website
Email: lucasfw.wilson@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Mairi Cowan
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- 17th-century Quebec
- Medieval and early modern Europe
- New France
- Pedagogy
- Scotland
- Teaching and learning history
Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-3730
Languages: Latin, French
Website
Email: mairi.cowan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Historical & political context of U.S. multi-year presence in Afghanistan & firm removal deadline
- Iran
- Iranian Modernity, Nationalism and Islamism
- Islam
- Islamic Modernity
- Memory, History and Historiography
- Modern Middle East
- Orientalism and Occidentalism
- Persian diaspora
- Scientific Imagination and Modern Persian Political Language
Office: 416-978-5039
Home: 416-767-2064
Languages: Persian
Email: m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Sarianna Metso
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Editing of biblical manuscripts and physical manuscript reconstruction
- Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially ancient Jewish legislation
- Methods of textual and redaction criticism
- Problems related to reconstructing history from ancient Jewish literature
- Second Temple Jewish Literature
Office: 905-828-3771
Home: 416-275-9494
Email: s.metso@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online