Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Department of History

Department of History / Faculty and Staff / Faculty by research

Faculty and Staff

Research Areas:

Africa/Middle East/Asia

  • Brown, Jeremy PhD (University of California, San Diego)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: Modern China
  • Kuehn, Thomas PhD (NYU)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire
  • MacLean, Derryl PhD (McGill)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East
  • Matsumura, Janice PhD (York)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: Modern Japan
  • Ray, Bidisha PhD (Manchester)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: South Asia
  • Sedra, Paul PhD (NYU)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: Modern Arab Middle East
  • Walshaw, Sarah PhD (Washington University in St. Louis)
    Africa, Middle East, Africa and Asia
    Research Interests: Africa

Europe

  • Craig, John PhD (Cambridge)
    Europe
    Research Interests: Early modern England
  • Doxiadis, Evdoxios PhD (Berkeley)
    Europe
    Research Interests: Modern Greece, Modern Mediterranean, law, and gender.
  • Faulkner Rossi, Lauren PhD (Brown)
    Europe
    Research Interests: modern Germany, modern Europe, modern Christianity/Church history
  • Keough, Willeen PhD (Memorial)
    Europe, Americas
    Research Interests: Atlantic Canada, Ireland, gender, ethnicity, cultural memory, oral history
  • O'Brien, Emily PhD (Brown)
    Europe
    Research Interests: Italian Renaissance
  • Pabel, Hilmar M. PhD (Yale)
    Europe
    Research Interests: Early modern Europe, Reformation
  • Panchasi, Roxanne PhD (Rutgers)
    Europe
    Research Interests: Modern France
  • Vinkovetsky, Ilya PhD (Berkeley)
    Europe, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: Modern Russia and Soviet Union
  • Windel, Aaron PhD (Minnesota)
    Europe, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: The British empire; colonial development; media and technology.

The Americas

  • Adcock, Tina PhD (Cambridge)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Modern Canada, northern and circumpolar history, cultural and environmental history
  • Chenier, El PhD (Queens)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Modern Canada, sexuality, women and gender
  • Ferguson, Karen PhD (Duke)
    Americas
    Research Interests: 20th Century United States
  • Geiger, Andrea PhD (Washington)
    Global Comparative, Americas
    Research Interests: Western North America, Migration
  • Kenny, Nicolas PhD (Université de Montréal and Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Canada/Quebec, cultural and urban history, Europe
  • Keough, Willeen PhD (Memorial)
    Europe, Americas
    Research Interests: Atlantic Canada, Ireland, gender, ethnicity, cultural memory, oral history
  • Leier, Mark PhD (Memorial)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Labour and the left, anarchism, post-confederation Canada
  • May, Nicholas PhD (Toronto)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Americas; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Religion; Environment
  • Spear, Jennifer PhD (Minnesota)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Early North America; race, gender & sexuality
  • Taylor, Joseph PhD (Washington)
    Americas
    Research Interests: Western North America, environmental history

Global/Comparative

  • Clossey, Luke PhD (Berkeley)
    Global Comparative
    Research Interests: Early modern world
  • Geiger, Andrea PhD (Washington)
    Global Comparative, Americas
    Research Interests: Western North America, Migration
  • Sedra, Paul PhD (NYU)
    Middle East, Africa and Asia, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: Modern Arab Middle East
  • Vinkovetsky, Ilya PhD (Berkeley)
    Europe, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: Modern Russia and Soviet Union
  • Windel, Aaron PhD (Minnesota)
    Europe, Global Comparative
    Research Interests: The British empire; colonial development; media and technology.
Adcock, Tina
Brown, Jeremy
Chenier, Elise
Clossey, Luke<
Craig, John
Ferguson, Karen
Garfinkel, Paul
Geiger, Andrea
Guo, Weiting
Kelm, Mary-Ellen
Kenny, Nicolas
Keough, Willeen
Kuehn, Thomas
Leier, Mark
MacLean, Derryl
Matsumura, Janice
McCullough, Katie
OBrien, Emily
Pabel, Hilmar
Panchaasi, Roxanne
Ray, Bidisha
Sedra, Paul
Spear, Jennifer
Taylor, Joseph
Vinkovetsky, Ilya
Walshaw, Sarah
Windel, Aaron
Ghazal, Amal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Are you excited by a historical theme and want to take courses that follow a thematic through-line?

We have organized our courses into the following thematic clusters to make it easier for you to study what you are passionate about!

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
EMPIRE, COLONIALISM, AND MIGRATION
POLITICS, ECONOMY, AND LAW
WAR, RESISTANCE, AND REVOLUTION
CITIES AND NATURE
RELIGION
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
RACE AND ETHNICITY

How to use the interactive map:

Hover over one of the themes listed at the bottom of the map to see which faculty members teach courses within this theme.

Click on the theme to see a list of associated courses.

Click on a faculty member's name to be directed to their faculty page. Here you'll see a list of the upcoming courses they are teaching.

If you have questions, please email the professor whose course you are interested in. For general inquiries, please email our undergraduate advisor at tessaw@sfu.ca

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