About Us

The History Department studies the past to prepare historically informed global citizens for the challenges of today and tomorrow. Our faculty and students produce historical knowledge and interpretations that reveal how and why the past matters.

We have several areas of research focus in history: Canadian, Digital, Environmental/ Science/Medicine, Gender/Women, Indigenous, International/Global, Public History, Social/Cultural, and War/Conflict. Several of our faculty have cross-appointments to other departments or programs.

In geographic terms, we teach undergraduate and graduate courses on Canada, the United States, Europe, East Asia, Middle East, and Africa. Our department supports an undergraduate program in International Relations, in conjunction with the Department of Political Science, and we run an undergraduate program in American Studies. Our graduate students earn a PhD in History or MA in History. The MA options include a 12-month program, and a Public History field.

           

News and Updates

The Vatican returns sacred artifacts held for a century to their Indigenous owners

Cody Groat, Assistant Professor of History and Indigenous Studies told CNN that, “it’s highly contestable that this was the meaningful ‘gifting’ of items”.

Assistant professor in history and Indigenous studies Cody Groat talks Vatican artifacts

Cody Groat is Mohawk and an assistant professor in the history and Indigenous studies program at Western University in London, Ontario. He talks with APTN’s Creeson Agecoutay about the Indigenous artifacts coming into Canada from the Vatican.

Is Russia interested in lasting peace between it and Ukraine? A historian weighs in

History professor Oleksa Drachewych analyzes the latest updates in Russia-Ukraine peace talks.

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