History
Andres Kasekamp
Professor

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- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
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

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- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-200-3426
Website
Email: carolyn.suzanne.harris@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Charlie Keil
Professor

- Campus
- Department
- Centres
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
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
- Department
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

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

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- Department
- Centres
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
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Jennifer Jenkins
Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science
Canada Research Chair in Modern German History

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- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
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Jennifer Mori
Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
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- Department
Areas of Expertise
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
- Department
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
- Türkiye/turkey
Office: 416-978-3143
Home: 416-530-5701
Languages: German, Arabic, French, Turkish
Website
Email: jens.hanssen@utoronto.ca
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Laurel MacDowell
Professor Emerita

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- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-828-5243
Home: 416-487-5681
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
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Li Chen
Associate Professor of History/Law
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
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,
Interim Principal of the University of St. Michael’s College for the 2020-2022 academic years.

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- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
Mobile: 647-771-1865
Email: mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
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Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Professor

- Campus
- Department
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

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- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
- Faculty
- Department
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
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- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-8476
Home: 416-946-8913
Languages: Hindi
Email: r.birla@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Robert Bothwell
Professor Emeritus of International Relations

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic history
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
Office: n/a
Languages: French, Formal Spanish in writing
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Sean Hawkins
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
- Faculty
- Department
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
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Timothy Andrews Sayle
Director, International Relations Program Trinity College;
Associate Professor of History, Faculty of Arts & Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian foreign and defence policy
- Intelligence and national security
- International relations
- NATO
- The Cold War
- The Iraq War
- U.S. foreign policy
Office: email preferred
Email: tim.sayle@utoronto.ca
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