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Historical Studies

Brian Gettler

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th and 20th-century Canada, history of colonialism, the state, and capitalism, Indigenous histories, Quebec
  • Canada
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • State, Politics, and Law

Office: (905) 828-3939
Languages: French
Website
Email: brian.gettler@utoronto.ca

Carrie Atkins

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient history
  • Material culture

Office: N/A
Languages: Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Italian,German
Website
Email: carrie.fulton@utoronto.ca

Christoph Emmrich

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
  • Nepal Burma and Tamil Nadu (India)
  • Newar; Nepali, Burmese, Mon, Tamil, Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
  • Religion; ritual, gender, children, girl children‎, time, travel and memory
  • South Asia and Southeast Asia
  • The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians

Office: 416-978-6463
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jens Hanssen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Imperialism, liberalism and cosmopolitanism in the modern Mediterranean
  • Post-national histories of modernity in the Middle East.
  • The connection between intellectual trends and urban culture in the modern Middle East, in particular 19th. and 20th century Baghdad
  • Therationalities of late Ottoman rule in the Arab provinces

Office: 416-978-314
Home: 416-530-5701
Mobile: 416-530-5701
Languages: German, Arabic, French, Turkish
Website
Email: jens.hanssen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Joan Simalchik

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender and global culture
  • Gender and social policy
  • Genocide
  • History
  • Immigration and refugee policy
  • International human rights and justice
  • Memory and social trauma/conflict
  • Migration
  • Practice and experiential learning
  • Refugees
  • Torture and psychosocial trauma
  • Women

Office: 416-988-7953
Website
Email: joan.simalchik@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Julie MacArthur

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African history
  • Politics in Kenya

Office: (905) 569-4492
Email: julie.macarthur@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ken Derry

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Religion
  • Indigenous Traditions
  • Method and Theory
  • Religion and Literature/Film
  • Religion and violence
  • Religion, Culture & Politics
  • Teaching Religion

Office: 905-569-4492
Website
Email: ken.derry@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Laurel MacDowell

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Laurel MacDowell

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian labour history and relations
  • North American environmental history

Office: 905-828-5243
Website
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lucas Wilson

Postdoctoral fellow

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th and 21st-century U.S. literatures
  • Affect theory
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Memory studies
  • The Holocaust
  • White Christian nationalism

Office: N/A
Website
Email: lucasfw.wilson@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Mairi Cowan

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • 17th-century Quebec
  • Medieval and early modern Europe
  • New France
  • Pedagogy
  • Scotland
  • Teaching and learning history

Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-3730
Languages: Latin, French
Website
Email: mairi.cowan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Professor

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Areas of Expertise

  • Historical & political context of U.S. multi-year presence in Afghanistan & firm removal deadline
  • Iran
  • Iranian Modernity, Nationalism and Islamism
  • Islam
  • Islamic Modernity
  • Memory, History and Historiography
  • Modern Middle East
  • Orientalism and Occidentalism
  • Persian diaspora
  • Scientific Imagination and Modern Persian Political Language

Office: 416-978-5039
Home: 416-767-2064
Languages: Persian
Email: m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sarianna Metso

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Editing of biblical manuscripts and physical manuscript reconstruction
  • Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially ancient Jewish legislation
  • Methods of textual and redaction criticism
  • Problems related to reconstructing history from ancient Jewish literature
  • Second Temple Jewish Literature

Office: 905-828-3771
Home: 416-275-9494
Email: s.metso@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online