MA Supervisors

John Bonnett
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5552
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Research Interests: Canadian intellectual history; history and computing; diplomatic history; computer assisted pedagogy; Harold Innis

Jessica P. Clark 
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
905 688 5550, ext. 4303
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Research Interests: Modern Britain; history of the British world; women, gender, and sexuality; race and ethnicity; social and cultural history; history of the senses

Michael Driedger
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3972
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Research Interests: Early Modern Europe; Reformation; religious movements and minorities; Mennonites; liberal arts education

Tami J. Friedman
Associate Professor and Department Chair
905 688 5550 x3709
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Research Interests: 20th-century U.S. history; social history of economic change; gender, race, and ethnicity. Additional areas of supervision: U.S. and Canadian women’s history, U.S. foreign relations

Gregor Kranjc
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 6161
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Research Interests: modern Eastern Europe; WWII; war crimes

Maureen Lux
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5553
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Research Interests: Canadian history; Indigenous histories; history of medicine

Joshua Manitowabi
Assistant Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3507
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Research Interests: Indigenous histories; Indigenous education

Andrew McDonald
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3569
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Research Interests: Medieval British Isles, particularly Scotland and Isle of Man; Vikings and Viking Age

Jane McLeod
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3501
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Research Interests: Early Modern France; French Revolution; censorship

Behnaz Mirzai
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5283
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Research Interests: Modern Middle East; Indian Ocean; Islam; African Diaspora; slavery; minorities

Elizabeth Neswald
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5327
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century German and Irish science; thermodynamics and culture; history of science and technology

Olatunji Ojo
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5146
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Research Interests:  African social and economic history; slavery; African Diaspora

Colin Rose
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5554
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Research Interests: Early modern Europe, especially Italy and the Mediterranean; violence; justice and the law; rural history; digital history; historical GIS

Daniel Samson
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3503
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Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Canada, colonialism, rural societies

Mark Spencer
Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3506
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Research Interests: Early America; history of ideas; David Hume

Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 5145
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Research Interests: modern Latin America; gender; art

Elizabeth Vlossak
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies
905 688 5550, ext. 4020
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Research Interests: 20th century Europe; France and Germany; social and cultural history; nationalism; borderlands; women and gender

Ning Wang
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3505
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Research Interests: modern China

Murray Wickett
Associate Professor
905 688 5550, ext. 3504
[email protected]
Research Interests: U.S. race and ethnicity; Africa Americans; Native Americans; American West; comparative slavery and emancipation