Administration
Francine McKenzie
Chair, Department of History
| Position: Professor Email: fmckenzi@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84964 |
Office: LWH 2201B |
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Research Interests Professor McKenzie is an international historian who works on the history of international organizations, global trade, and the British Commonwealth – especially on Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Jonathan F. Vance
Undergraduate Chair
| Position: Professor Email: jvance@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84974 |
Office: LWH 2247 |
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Research Interests Professor Vance teaches military history, Canadian history, and social memory. His current research focuses on the First World War, Canadian culture, and prisoners of war. He also curates the Wartime Canada collection. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Michael Dove
Director and Internship Coordinator, M.A. Public History Program
| Position: Assistant Professor Email: mdove2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84996 |
Office: LWH 1207 |
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Research Interests Professor Dove specializes in public history, early Canadian history, and the business and social history of the global maritime world in the Early Modern Period (c.1500-1800). He is especially interested in the operation of commercial trading companies including the Hudson’s Bay Company, as well as the growth and decline of piracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Master's level supervisory privileges |
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Maya Shatzmiller
Director, Middle East & North Africa Research Group (MENARG)
| Position: Professor Email: maya@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84994 |
Office: LWH 2229 |
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Research Interests Professor Maya Shatzmiller is a specialist in the social and economic history of the medieval Islamic world and author of several books on the subject, among them 'Labour in the Medieval Islamic World' and 'Women's property Rights in 15th century Granada'. Her project of writing the economic history of medieval Islamic societies in several volumes is under way with the current volume devoted to the monetary history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Aldona Sendzikas
Co-Director, Program in American Studies at Western
| Position: Associate Professor Email: asendzi2@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84377 |
Office: LWH 1222 |
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Research Interests Professor Sendzikas specializes in 20th century U.S. and military history. Her research interests include the U.S. Submarine Service, particularly during WWII; prisoner of war issues;Canada-U.S. relations; and Cold War culture and society Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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Laurel Shire
Graduate Chair
Co-Director, Program in American Studies at Western
| Position: Associate Professor Email: lshire@uwo.ca Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 84991 |
Office: LWH 2226 |
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Research Interests Professor Shire is a social and cultural historian whose research focuses on the United States in the nineteenth century, especially the relationship between race, gender, and U.S. expansion. Her research connects scholarship on North American borderlands, Western and Southern U.S. history, the Atlantic world, Native and African American studies, and women’s history. Master's & Doctoral Level supervisory privileges |
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