History

Andres Kasekamp

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Baltic states
• European politics
• Fascism
• NATO
• Populism

Office: Not Available
Mobile: 416-949-4284
Email: andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Arne Kislenko

Adjunct Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• Foreign policy
• International relations
• Security
• Southeast Asia
• Terrorism

Office: 416-978-2655
Mobile: 647-378-8710
Website
Email: arne.kislenko@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Carolyn Harris

Lecturer, School of Continuing Studies

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • School of Continuing Studies
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• History of early modern Europe
• History of the Monarchy
• Royal family
• Royal protocol

Office: 416-200-3426
Website
Email: carolyn.suzanne.harris@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Charlie Keil

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Cinema Studies
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• Award cycle trends
• Censorship and controversy
• Classical hollywood cinema and the star system
• Contemporary hollywood
• Cultural trends
• Directors and authorship
• Documentary
• Early cinema
• Film and history

Office: 416-978-2510
Home: 416-322-7498
Mobile: 647-236-0667
Email: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca
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Connie Guberman

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • History
  • Women & Gender Studies

Areas of Expertise

• design for personal safety
• Diversity and inclusion in organizations
• Equity issues for women
• Feminism and young women
• Violence against women

Office: 416-978-2757
Home: 416-534-4919
Email: c.guberman@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Bender

Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• American cultural and labor history
• Animal studies
• Comparative literature
• Food history and diversity
• Food studies
• History of empire

Office: 416-208-5119
Email: debender@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Elspeth Brown

Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Historical Studies
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Community archives
• History of american popular culture
• History of consumerism
• History of fashion and print models
• History of International Women's Day
• History of photography
• History of race and sexuality in modeling
• History of trans women
• History of women
• LGBTQ oral history
• U.S. commercial culture
• U.S. cultural history (20th century)
• U.S. social and cultural history
• Visual Culture of United States

Office: 416-946-8011
Home: 416-535-1678
Website
Email: elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca
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Isabelle Cochelin

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • History
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• History of medieval childhood
• History of monasticism
• History of Poverty (1000-1500)
• History of servants and service (1000-1700)
• Medieval history
• Medieval social history
• Old age in the medieval period
• Youth in the medieval period

Office: 416-978-7414
Languages: French
Email: isabelle.cochelin@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Jenkins

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Canada Research Chair in Modern German History

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• German global politics
• German nationalism
• Germany and the Middle East
• Modern Germany
• National identity
• Politics and culture

Office: 416-946-8946
Home: 416-767-2064
Mobile: 416-522-2371
Languages: German
Email: jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Mori

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• 18th century British history
• 18th century European history

Office: 647-781-1057
Email: jennifer.mori@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jens Hanssen

Associate Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto Mississauga

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • History
  • Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

Areas of Expertise

• Culture and politics
• Egypt
• Germany
• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Middle East history
• Palestine
• Sheikh Jarrah district; Context of escalating tensions
• Syria
• The Arab Awakening in historical perspective
• Turkey

Office: 416-978-3143
Home: 416-530-5701
Languages: German, Arabic, French, Turkish
Email: jens.hanssen@utoronto.ca
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Laurel MacDowell

Professor Emerita

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Historical Studies (UTM)
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian labour history and relations
• North American environmental history

Office: 905-828-5243
Home: 416-487-5681
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Laurie Bertram

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• British North America Act
• Colonialisms and Indigeneity
• Empires

Office: 416-946-0968
Email: l.bertram@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark McGowan

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Department of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science

Interim Principal and Vice-President, St. Michael's College 2020-2022

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • USMC
• Department
  • Book & Media Studies
  • Celtic Studies
  • History
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Catholic Church (Canada and the world)
• Catholic education in Canada
• History of Christianity
• History of Ireland and its Diaspora
• Immigration and Canada
• Religion and Communications
• The Irish in Canada
• The Vatican

Office: 416-926-1300 ext. 3253
Home: 905-668-0959
Mobile: 647-771-1865
Email: mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
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Michael Marrus

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• Antisemitism
• Holocaust
• Jewish Catholic relations; Pope Pius XII; Vatican and the Jews
• Law and history

Office: 416-946-0648
Home: 416-537-8664
Languages: French
Email: michael.marrus@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • History
  • Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

Areas of Expertise

• Historical & political context of U.S. multi-year presence in Afghanistan & firm removal deadline
• Iran
• Islam
• Modern Middle East
• Persian diaspora

Office: 416-951-2495
Home: 416-767-2064
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca
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Nicholas Everett

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Medieval Studies
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Ancient and Medieval History
• History of Italy
• History of medicine
• History of pharmacy
• Italian churches
• Medieval manuscripts and Latin philology
• Ojibwe and Native North American Medicine

Office: 647-988-8370
Languages: Italian Latin Ancient Greek
Email: n.everett@utoronto.ca
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Paul Cohen

Associate Professor of History

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• France
• France national identity and language politics
• Higher education policy in France
• Linguistic nationalism
• Social history of languages

Office: N/A
Email: p.cohen@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Ritu Birla

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Colonial and postcolonial cultural studies
• India (modern history)
• South Asia (modern history)

Office: 416-978-8476
Home: 416-946-8913
Languages: Hindi
Email: ai.director@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bothwell

Professor of International Relations

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Canada-US relations
• Canadian foreign relations
• Canadian politics and political history
• COVID-19 – Canada’s history of border measures
• Impact of Ruth Bader Ginsburg death on election
• Trump & Trudeau on border control measures

Office: n/a
Languages: French, Formal Spanish
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Ronald Pruessen

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• American politics
• Barack Obama and U.S presidency
• Globalization
• U.S politics and elections
• U.S. and China relations
• U.S. foreign policy

Office: 416-946-0977
Home: 416-320-4352
Email: pruessen@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sean Hawkins

Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• African intellectual history
• Ethics of conservation and animal protection
• History of freedom
• History of rights
• Intersection of animal and human rights

Office: 416-978-7418
Home: 416-925-6006
Email: sean.hawkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Stephen Rockel

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Humanities (UTSC)
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• African social and economic history
• African urbanization
• Colonialism and imperialism in Africa
• History of labour and slavery in Africa
• History of modern Africa
• Tanzanian and East African history
• War and society in modern Africa

Office: 416-287-7145
Mobile: 647-262-4386
Email: stephen.rockel@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Thomas Lahusen

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• History of far east Russia
• Kyrgyzstan
• Northeast China
• Russian and Soviet cultural history

Office: 416-946-8995
Languages: French, German, Russian, Polish, Chinese
Email: thomas.lahusen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Thomas Socknat

Associate Professor-teaching stream, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Academic Director, Woodsworth College

Academic Bridging Program, Woodsworth College

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• Access to higher education
• Canadian peace movement
• Pacifism
• Popular culture
• Protest

Office: 416-978-0697
Home: 416-237-1438
Email: thomas.socknat@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Timothy Andrews Sayle

Director, International Relations Program;

Assistant Professor of History, Faculty of Arts & Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • International Relations

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian foreign and defence policy
• Intelligence and national security
• International relations
• NATO
• The Iraq War
• U.S. foreign policy

Office: email preferred
Email: tim.sayle@utoronto.ca
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