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

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: N/A
Mobile: 647-236-0667
Email: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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

Dimitry Anastakis

Professor, History and The Rotman School of Management

LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History

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

Areas of Expertise

• Automotive
• Canadian business history
• Commodities
• Technology

Office: 416-910-8654
Mobile: 416-910-8654
Website
Email: dimitry.anastakis@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Elspeth Brown

Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Vice-Principal, Research, University of Toronto Mississauga

• 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 consumerism
• History of fashion and print models
• History of photography
• History of race and sexuality in modeling
• History of trans people
• LGBTQ oral history
• U.S. cultural history (20th century)
• U.S. social and cultural history
• Visual Culture of United States

Office: N/A
Website
Email: elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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 Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800)
• 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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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 & Literatures
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: N/A
Home: 416-767-2064
Mobile: 416-522-2371
Languages: German
Email: jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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

Director designate, German Orient Institute in Beirut (from July 1st, 2023)

• Campus
  • St. George
• 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 (al-Nahda) 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

Li Chen

Associate Professor of History/Law

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Law
• Department
  • Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC)
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• Chinese law and comparative law
• Late imperial and modern Chinese history
• Sino-Western relations

Office: 416-208-7254
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)
Email: lc.chen@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
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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Everett

Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science

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

Fellow, Trinity College

• 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: r.birla@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sean Hawkins

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• 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
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Office: 416-978-7418
Home: 416-925-6006
Email: sean.hawkins@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli

Professor, Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science

Cross-appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; History Department

Affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research; Visiting Faculty, Economics, Yale University

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Economics
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• 20th century labor history in the U.S.
• Canadian economic history
• Cash transfer programs
• Intergenerational mobility and inequality
• Pension systems
• Research using family trees (genealogy)
• U.S. social welfare history
• Universal basic income
• Welfare

Office: 416-946-7630
Mobile: 437-239-1159
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Stephen Rockel

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC)
  • History
  • 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

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online