Department of History

Welcome to History at SFU. Our award-winning department offers students a rigorous program that covers a broad range of geographic and thematic areas.

Our program is global geographically, with a strength in Canadian history and US, Latin American, British, European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian history. It makes thematic connections with strengths in early modern history, oral history, gender and sexuality, muslim studies, Hellenic studies, religion, aboriginal studies, and labour studies. (More...)

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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Colloquium: “The Burmese Exception: Colonial Opium Policy
and the Royal Commission on Opium of 1895.”

Dr. Ashley Wright
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
11:30-12:30
AQ 6229

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Congratulations to Professor Jeremy Brown for winning the 2013 Cormack Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
SFU History Professor Paul Sedra was on Al Jazeera's "The Stream" yesterday, discussing Egypt's Religious status post-revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0sVPHiClE


Monday, April 22, 2013
The Michael Fellman Award
, in the amount of $1000, has been co-established by the SFU History Department and The Tyee in the memory of former SFU professor Michael Fellman. For more information, check The Tyee website, or the department's scholarships page.

Monday, April 22, 2013
Congratulations to
Andrea Geiger, whose book, Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928, has won a second award; The Association for Asian American Studies, History Book Award.

Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions

The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings Series, January 2012).

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An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity
By Peter Gossage and Jack Little (Oxford University Press, 2012)

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Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh Century Byzantium. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012).