Faculty in this cluster explore the cultural beliefs, attitudes and assumptions from the early modern to the contemporary period.

Our interests include cultural production and reception; popular culture; beliefs about religion, magic and witchcraft; visual and material culture; cross cultural encounter and interaction; and memory.

Faculty: Cindy Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Wendy Churchill, Margaret Conrad (ret), Catherine Gidney STU, Jane Jenkins STU, Stefanie Kennedy, Hannah Lane MtA, Janet Mullin, Richard Raiswell UPEI, Karen Robert STU, Robin Vose STU, Gary Waite, Carey Watt STU, Donald Wright (Political Science)

Historians in this cluster examine the changing notions and practices relating to gender, sexuality, the body, disease, disability, health and/or medicine from the early modern to the contemporary period.

Faculty: Jeffrey Brown, Wendy Churchill, Margaret Conrad (ret), Stefanie Kennedy, Debra Lindsay, Sasha Mullally, Lisa Todd, Gary Waite

Faculty in this cluster explore how wars are planned and fought, how conflict affects class, military culture, gender and ethnic relations and how wars are remembered and memorialized.

Faculty: Cindy Brown, Wendy Churchill, Sarah-Jane Corke, Bonnie Huskins, Sean Kennedy, Marc Milner, Lisa Todd, Julia Torrie STU, Brent Wilson, Lee Windsor

The history of humans in the physical environment is an essential component of history in general. Historians in this cluster are exploring how people in the past have conceived of and treated their environment.

Faculty: Bradley Cross STU

Historians in this cluster explore settler-indigenous history and indigeneity in local, national and transnational contexts, including Canadian First Nations, the indigenous people of the Caribbean and the indigenous histories of the Americas in a comparative perspective.

Faculty: Stephen Dutcher, Stefanie Kennedy

How religious, ethnic, racialized and national groups were defined, conceived and treated is an important aspect of our research and teaching, from the rise of anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages to the racialization of slavery in the seventeenth century to the genocides of the 20th century.

Faculty: Jeffrey Brown, Wendy Churchill, Bonnie Huskins, Sean Kennedy, Stefanie Kennedy, Lisa Todd, Gary Waite, Carey Watt STU

Historians are now pursuing exciting new research on the interaction between Africa, Europe and the Americas in the Atlantic World, including exploration, colonization, slavery, European conquest and indigenous responses and resistance to conquest, transportation, trade and commerce, the exchange and transformation of ideas, disease, technologies, peoples, animals and plants and the broader impact of such movements.

Faculty: Wendy Churchill, Margaret Conrad (ret), Bonnie Huskins, Gregory Kennedy UdM, Stefanie Kennedy, Sasha Mullally, John Reid SMU

Scholars in this cluster explore international interactions of various kinds, ranging in focus from nation states to various international organizations, considering culture and society as well as politics.

Faculty: Cindy Brown, Sarah-Jane Corke, Bradley Cross STU, Sean Kennedy, Marc Milner, Lisa Todd, Julia Torrie STU, Lee Windsor

While historians in this cluster remain specialists in a particular region, they also enter into denationalized conversations about the overlapping histories and movements of peoples across borders, whether voluntary or forced (refugees, exile).

Faculty: Cindy Brown, Wendy Churchill, Sarah-Jane Corke, Bonnie Huskins, Gregory Kennedy UdM, Sean Kennedy, Stefanie Kennedy, Sasha Mullally, John Reid SMU, Karen Robert STU, Lisa Todd, Gary Waite, Carey Watt STU

Michel Foucault wrote that, “Where there is power, there is resistance.”

The research of historians in this cluster involves struggles for power, the formation and evolution of institutions, the economic and cultural dimensions of political power and the various ways in which people have resisted power structures at different times in history.

Faculty: Michael Boudreau STU, Cindy Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Margaret Conrad (ret), Sarah-Jane Corke, Bradley Cross STU, Bonnie Huskins, Sean Kennedy, Marc Milner, Janet Mullin, Karen Robert STU, Lisa Todd, Julia Torrie STU, Donald Wright (Political Science)

H-GIS: Sasha Mullally

Digital databases: Stefanie Kennedy

Oral history/digital storytelling: Sasha Mullally

Scholars in this cluster cooperate with colleagues in the Faculty of Education to enhance pedagogical approaches to the subject of history at all levels.

Faculty: Cindy Brown, Catherine Gidney STU, Lee Windsor

STU = St Thomas University
UdM = Université de Moncton
UPEI = University of Prince Edward Island
MtA = Mount Allison University
SMU = Saint Mary’s University
ret = retired

Medieval/Early Modern: Wendy Churchill, Stephen Dutcher, Bonnie Huskins, Stefanie Kennedy, Janet Mullin, Gary Waite

Modern: Cindy Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Sarah-Jane Corke, Stephen Dutcher, Sean Kennedy, Stefanie Kennedy, Marc Milner, Sasha Mullally, Lisa Todd, Brent Wilson, Lee Windsor

Canada: Stephen Dutcher, Bonnie Huskins, Marc Milner, Sasha Mullally, Brent Wilson, Lee Windsor

America: Jeffrey Brown, Sarah-Jane Corke, Stephen Dutcher, Bonnie Huskins, Sasha Mullally

Europe: Cindy Brown, Sean Kennedy, Marc Milner, Lisa Todd, Gary Waite, Lee Windsor

Britain: Wendy Churchill, Stefanie Kennedy, Marc Milner, Janet Mullin, Gary Waite

The Atlantic: Wendy Churchill, Bonnie Huskins, Stefanie Kennedy, Marc Milner

Global South: Stefanie Kennedy (Caribbean & Sub-Saharan Africa), Lisa Todd (Southern Africa), Lee Windsor (South Asia)