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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...)
HIST 486 Queering India: Gender, Body and Sexuality in modern South Asia
Shrouded in silence, the ultimate taboo
The ‘sex question’ in British India will be the focus of this riveting course examining the sexual traditions of South Asia. Dr. Bidisha Ray will lead students through exciting narratives of sexual danger, homosexuality and homophobia, prostitution, popular erotica and pornography, examining songs, poetry, pulp fiction and oral traditions. You won’t want to miss this!
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- Recent Faculty Publications
Trudeau 2.0: Pierre's Legacy and Justin's Future
November 28, 2013 | 5:30 p.m.
Fletcher Challenge Theatre
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings St.
Gender History: Canadian Perspectives. (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2013). Co-authored with Lara Campbell.
Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908 (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
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).