Dr. Nicholas Tracy is an adjunct professor in the UNB History Department, an Associate of the Gregg Centre, a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK, and Associate of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King’s College, University of London. His life-long study of the role of navies in international relations include Navies, Deterrence, and American Independence (University of British Columbia Press, 1988), Attack on Maritime Trade (London: Macmillan Press, UK, and Toronto University Press,1991), The Collective Naval Defence of the Empire: 1900 to 1940 (Navy Records Society Vol. 136, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1997), Sea Power and the Control of Trade, Belligerent Rights from the Russian War to the Beira Patrol (Navy Records Society, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005), and A Two-Edged Sword: The Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Policy (Montreal:  McGill-Queen’s UP, 2012).

Other books by Tracy have included Britannia's Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory (Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, February 2007), Nelson's Battles, the Triumph of British Seapower (Seaforth Publishing, July 2008), Miracle of the Kent, a tale of Courage, Fire and Faith (Westholm Press, 2008), and The Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759, Hawke and the Defeat of the French Invasion (Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010).

Courses offered:

Hist3845:  The Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy; 1900-2012.

HIST3805:  Master and Commander: Royal Navy History through its Ships, Museums and Archives