Graduate Studies Faculty Members

(+ = no longer taking new graduate students).  SJ = Saint John Campus. For more information, visit the "People" page of the UNB History websites: Fredericton  Saint John

JEFFREY BROWN (U.S. History, Modern Thought and Culture, History of American Therapeutics) holds his doctorate from the University of Rochester. He is currently at work on two projects: a study of the provision of medical care to the sick poor in the twentieth century United States, and an exploration of philosophies of life and meaning politics in modern America. His research interests include American social thought, health and society, political and cultural radicalism, science and metaphysics, and transatlantic modernism. He has presented papers at such forums as the International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History, the Senator Rush D. Holt History Conference, the Rochester Academy of Medicine, Wilfred Laurier University's Lessons of History” Conference, and at annual meetings of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, the Canadian Association for American Studies, and the Great Lakes Historical Society. His essay, “Being Present, Owning the Past, and Growing into the Future: Temporality, Revelation, and the Therapeutic Culture” will appear in the book The History We Make , ed. Peter Farrugia (University of Calgary Press, forthcoming).

GAIL G. CAMPBELL (Canadian Social and Political History; Quantitative Methodology) holds her doctorate from Clark University. Her publications include articles in Social Science History, CHA Historical Papers, Acadiensis and the Canadian Historical Review. Her major research project, which focuses on three New Brunswick counties, involves a study of the dynamics and demography of 19th century political culture. A related project examines the experience of 19th century New Brunswick women as reflected in their diaries and correspondence.

DAVID CHARTERS is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Conflict Studies. He holds his doctorate from the University of London (King’s College). He teaches courses and supervises graduate students in the field of modern (post-1945) military history, with emphasis on low-intensity conflict and intelligence. He has recently published articles and chapters on intelligence in modern warfare, peacekeeping, and terrorism, and is the editor of several volumes, including The Deadly Sin of Terrorism (1996), and Intelligence Analysis and Assessment (1996). He is also the Executive Editor of The Journal of Conflict Studies, published by his Centre.

WENDY CHURCHILL (Early Modern Atlantic World; Early Modern Britain; Women's and Gender History, Social History of Medicine) received her Ph.D. in History at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) in 2005. She began teaching at UNB in 2006. For her dissertation, “Female Complaints: The Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of British Women, 1590-1740," she was awarded the Hannah Millennium History of Medicine Doctoral Thesis Award for 2006. She is currently revising this work, with the aim of publishing it as a monograph. Her research interests include early modern medical theory and practice, ethical issues within early modern medicine, the patient-practitioner relationship, the social history of health and medicine, and women's and gender history. Churchill has published articles in Vesalius (December 2001), Social History of Medicine (April 2005), and Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (October 2005). She has presented papers at numerous seminars and conferences, including: the British Society for t he History of Science (2006); the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford (2006); the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2006); the American Association for the History of Medicine (2005); the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (2004); the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (2004); and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (2003). Before joining the Department in 2006, she held a Hannah Postdoctoral Fellowship (Associated Medical Services, Inc.) at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. Her current research project focuses on the practice of medical ethics within Britain and its empire from the seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries.

+MARGARET CONRAD (Atlantic Canada, Women's History, Modern Canada; ret.), holds her doctorate from the University of Toronto and is a recipient of a Canada Research Chair. She has published widely in the fields of Atlantic Canada and women's history. Major works include (with James K. Hiller) Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001); George Nowlan: Maritime Conservative in National Politics (1986); (with Toni Laidlaw and Donna Smyth), No Place Like Home: The Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women (1988); and (with Alvin Finkel) History of the Canadian Peoples (Toronto: Copp Clark/Addison Wesley Longman, 1993/98/02) and Canada: A National History (Toronto: Pearson Education, 2003). As founding member of Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre, she has edited four publications: They Planted Well (1988), Making Adjustments (1991), Intimate Relations (1995), and (with Barry Moody) Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia (2001). She has also edited the memoirs of Ellen Fairclough, Saturday’s Child: The Memoirs of Ellen Louks Fairclough, Canada's First Female Federal Cabinet Minister (1995), winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award (1997) and served as co-editor of Atlantis (1977-1985) and the Canadian Historical Review (1997-2000).  In her capacity as Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, Dr. Conrad is exploring cooperation and conflict in and among the Atlantic provinces since 1939 as a means of refocusing the current discussion on how individuals, groups, and governments in Atlantic Canada should position themselves to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Included in the many facets of her research are an investigation of the relationship between historical consciousness and notions of efficacy in the region and analysis of women’s sense of agency, identity, and power in the Atlantic Provinces. These projects will be supported by the creation of electronic networks, including a Web-site designed to support collaborative research efforts at a distance.

DAVID FRANK (Atlantic Canada; Labour and Working-Class History, the Canadian Left, History on Film) studied at the University of Toronto and Dalhousie University, where he completed his doctoral thesis. He has recently published J.B. McLachlan: A Biography (1999), a highly acclaimed study of the life and times of the legendary champion of the Cape Breton coal miners. He has served on the editorial board of Labour/Le Travail and is editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region. His articles have appeared in Acadiensis, Histoire sociale/Social History, Historical Papers, Labour/Le Travail, Canadian Folklore and other journals. He has contributed chapters to Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada (1979), Cape Breton at 200 (1985), On the Job (1986), The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation (1993), The United Mine Workers of America, 1890-1990 (1996) and other books. He has co-edited several editions of The Acadiensis Readers (1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999), as well as The New Brunswick Worker: A Reader's Guide (1986), George MacEachern: An Autobiography (1987) and Labour and Working-Class History in Atlantic Canada (1995). His reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has contributed to reference works such as the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and The Canadian Encyclopedia.

CHERYL FURY (Social History of Early Modern Europe and of Elizabethan Seamen) holds her B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Brunswick and her Ph.D. from McMaster University. She has written a book, Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen 1580-1603, as well as several articles and reviews (published in The Mariner's Mirror, The International Journal of Maritime History, The Northern Mariner, Proceedings of the Atlantic Theological Conference, American Neptune, The Canadian Journal of History, Canadian Historical Review,  H-Albion and Sixteenth Century Journal). She has also contributed entries and essays to a wide range of historical encyclopedias. In addition, she is currently on the Editorial Board of The Northern Mariner, the official publication of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, and serves as a referee for the Northern Seas yearbook and Journal of British Studies. She is editing two books on the social history of early modern seamen as well as articles on the early voyages of the East India Company. She teaches course in Social history of maritime Europe; the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in Europe; Tudor-Stuart England; Crime & Punishment in Early Modern Europe.

GREGORY KEALEY (Canadian Labour and Working Class History, Canadian State Security History) holds his doctorate from the University of Rochester and is Vice-President Research of UNB. He has held numerous research grants from SSHRCC and other granting agencies, and has written four books, most recently Workers and Canadian History (1995), and has two more in preparation: The History of the Canadian Secret Service, with Reg Whitaker (Univ. of Toronto Press, c.2005), and State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1922 (Univ. of Toronto Press, c.2006). He has edited over two dozen other volumes, including eight volumes of The R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins and most recently Labour and Working-Class History in Atlantic Canada: A Reader, with David Frank (1995). He has published numerous book chapters, including “Spymasters, Spies and Their Subjects: The RCMP and Canadian State Repression, 1914-1939, in G. Kinsmen, D. Buse and M. Steedman, eds., Whose National Security? (2000), 18-33. Several of his many journal articles have been reprinted, such as “State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-20: The Impact of the First World War, ”in Franca Iacovetta, ed., A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers and Communities in Canadian History (1998), 384-411, and The Surveillance State: The Origins of Domestic Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in Canada, 1914-21,”in William M. Baker, ed., The Mounted Police and Prairie Society, 1873-1919 (1998), 325-50. He is the founding editor of Labour/Le Travail (editor from 19767-97) and editor of the McClelland & Stewart, then Oxford, and now University of Toronto Press Social History series, 1980-. A frequent contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and The Canadian Encyclopedia, he has written extensively also in non-academic publications and in various news media.

+LINDA KEALEY (North American/Canadian Women's History, Canadian Social and Health History) holds her doctorate from the University of Toronto. She is the author of Enlisting women for the Cause: Women, Labour and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920 (1998); and editor or coeditor of Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador (1993, 1999), Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics (1989), and A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s (1979). She has published articles in several journals and books, and has edited with Margaret Conrad the 25th Anniversary special issue of Atlantis on "Feminism and History" (Fall 2000) and is a co-editor of Atlantis. She has recently published "North America from North of the 49th Parallel" a chapter on Canadian Women's/gender history in the Blackwell series A Companion to Gender History (2004). She is currently engaged in a major collaborative research initiative funded by SSHRCC/NSERC on "Health Care in Resource Dependent Economies: Historical Contexts of Restructuring in Newfoundland and Labrador," which focuses on 20th century Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, particularly since the 1930s, when government efforts to establish health care services in isolated rural areas took the form of travelling clinics along the coast and the building of cottage hospitals. Such initiatives complemented and sometimes conflicted with the long-established voluntary work of the Grenfell Mission, founded to assist impoverished fishing families in the late 19th century. This research brings together a number of themes: the role of voluntary agencies as well as government in providing health care; the colonial assumptions and framework of the health "experts"; and the gender, race and class factors within the health care system.

SEAN KENNEDY (Contemporary Europe, France) holds a PhD from York University. His research is concerned with the extreme right in France, specifically the Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, political movements active from the late 1920s until 1945. He has also received a SSHRC grant (2003-2005) to research the role of the intellectual André Siegfried in shaping conceptions of French national identity during the 20th century. He has published articles on the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Français in French Historical Studies and French History, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. He has also presented papers at conferences in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (Sheffield, UK, 2000), annual conferences of the Society for French Historical Studies (1998-2002 in Ottawa, Washington, DC, Scottsdale, AZ., Chapel Hill, NC, and Toronto), and the annual meetings of the Canadian Historical Association (Halifax, 2003) and the Western Society for French History (Newport Beach, CA, 2003).

+PETER C. KENT (Contemporary Europe, European Diplomatic History, Italian History, the Catholic Church; ret.) holds his doctorate from the University of London (London School of Economics). He is the author of The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII (2002), The Pope and the Duce: The International Impact of the Lateran Agreements (1981), and co-editor of Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age (1994). His articles have appeared in Italian Quarterly, 1984 Historical Papers of the CHA, The International History Review, European History Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of History, Conflict Quarterly and the Journal of Contemporary History. A former Chair of the History Department and Dean of Arts. His present research concerns Canadian University protests in the 1960s and the Catholic Church in the early Cold War.

DEBRA LINDSAY (SJ; 19th century United States) holds her doctorate from the University of Manitoba. She studies the social and political aspects of 19th century North American science. Publications include Science in the Subarctic (1993), Clothes Off Our Back (1995), an article on women and science (Isis), as well as biographical and other entries in American National Biography, Oxford Companion to Canadian History, and CIHM Facsimile. Current research on the geological and paleontological sciences includes a study of the New Brunswick Natural History Society and Museum as part of a CURA project at UNB Saint John.

ELIZABETH MANCKE (Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies) has a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland), and an MA from the University of British Columbia. Before coming to UNB, Dr. Mancke was at the University of Akron in Ohio. Her research interests address the impact of early modern European overseas expansion on governance and political systems, from local government to international relations, and with a particular focus on Atlantic Canada. She has published several books, chapters and articles in the field.

GREG MARQUIS (SJ; Canadian Legal History; History of Law Enforcement and Crime) holds his doctorate from Queen’s University. He is interested in the social history of crime, law enforcement, alcohol regulation and the criminal justice system. His work has been published in Acadiensis, the University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Urban History Review, and Criminal Justice History. One of his most recent publications focuses on the impact of the American Civil War in Canada (In Armageddon’s Shadow, 2000). His current research is on 20th century Canadian alcohol policy. He teaches courses in Canadian history and North American criminal justice history.  

J. MARC MILNER (War and Naval History) holds his doctorate from the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys (1985), The U-boat Hunters: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany’s Submarines (1995), and Canada’s Navy: The First Century (1999). He has edited, Canadian Military History: Selected Readings (1993), co-edited, Military History and the Military Profession (1992), and co-authored the popular work, Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945 (1993). His other books include HMCS Sackville: A short History (1997) and a novel, Incident at North Point (1997). His articles have appeared in Military Affairs, Acadiensis, RCN in Retrospect, Canadian Defence Quarterly, Horizon Canada, The RUSI Journal, Journal of Strategic Studies, the New Canadian Encyclopaedia and elsewhere, and he prepared the entry on the Battle of the Atlantic for the Oxford Companion to the Second World War. He was formerly employed with the Directorate of History at the Department of National Defence, Ottawa, and wrote portions of volume II of the RCAF’s official History, and the first narrative of the forthcoming official history of the RCN. He is currently writing a one volume popular history of the Battle of the Atlantic (Tempus Press, U.K.). Former Chairman of the Canadian Military Colleges Advisory Board, Dr. Milner is Director of UNB’s Military and Strategic Studies Programme.

ERIN MORTON (Visual and Material Culture Studies in Canada and Indigenous North America) received her PhD in Visual and Material Culture Studies from Queen's University at Kingston. She teaches courses and supervises graduate students in the fields of modern and contemporary Canadian cultural history, particularly as it pertains to visual and material culture studies, art history, public history, cultural studies, museum studies, and Atlantic Canada studies. She is currently completing two books with McGill-Queen's University Press, the first a single-authored study, entitled The Art of Public History: Exhibiting Folk Art in Nova Scotia, and the second a collection of essays co-edited with Lynda Jessup (Queen's) and Kirsty Robertson (Western), entitled Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada.

SASHA MULLALLY (Canadian History, North American Borderlands/History of the Atlantic Region, Social History of Medicine, History of Women and Gender) received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. Dr. Mullally's research explores the social and cultural histories of health and medicine in 19th and 20th century North America. Her first book examines, through life-writing narratives, the social transformation of rural health in the North American northeast from 1900 to 1950. Her research combines the methodologies of both social and cultural history, and has appeared in many journals, including the Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Atlantis: Journal of Women's History, and Acadiensis: Journal of the Atlantic Region. Her work is also widely published in national and international edited collections, recent work appearing in Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1900-2000, eds. Jim Connor and Stephan Curtis (London: Chatto and Pickering, 2011); Making Up the State: Women and the State in Atlantic Canada, eds. S. Morton and J. Guildford (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2010); Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health, eds. Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher (London: Chatto and Pickering, 2010). Dr. Mullally teaches a variety of courses and supervises graduate students in the fields of Canadian/American and Borderland history, especially as pertains to the history of medicine and health care, and women's/gender history.

WILLIAM PARENTEAU (Atlantic Canada, Environmental History, Canadian-American Relations, History of Sport and Leisure) studied at the University of Maine and the University of New Brunswick, where he completed his doctoral thesis on the development of the pulp and paper industry in New Brunswick. He is currently editor of Acadiensis : Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region . His articles have appeared in Acadiensis , Forest and Conservation History , Environmental History Review, The Archivist, Canadian Historical Review, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and Environmental History . He has contributed chapters to Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (1992), Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada (1994) and New England and the Maritime Provinces: Comparisons and Connections (2001). Dr. Parenteau has presented more than 20 conference papers in such forums as the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Biennial Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Biennial Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. He is currently working on a monograph on the history of the Atlantic Salmon Fishery in the decades after Canadian Confederation. This study will examine the impact of federal and provincial salmon fishing regulations on the four principal resource user groups (anglers, commercial net fishers, rural farmers and settlers and Native peoples) in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

+R. STEVEN TURNER (History of Science; ret.) holds his doctorate from Princeton University. His articles have been published in Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Social Studies of Science, Social History/Histoire Sociale, Isis and a number of German journals. He is the author of In the Eye’s Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy (1994). His current research deals with contemporary regulatory policy in Canada for biotechnology.

GARY K. WAITE (Early Modern Europe) holds his doctorate from the University of Waterloo, is the author of Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe (University of Toronto, 2007, pb 2009); Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Reformers on Stage: Popular Drama and Reform Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1519-1556 (2000); David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism (1990) and (as editor and translator) The Anabaptist Writings of David Joris (1994). He has published articles in many scholarly journals, such as Social History, Sixteenth Century Journal, Archive for Reformation History, as well as chapters in several books, including: “Sixteenth Century Religious Reform and the Witch-Hunts,” chapter 27 of The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, ed. Brian Levack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 485-506; "Apocalyptical Terrorists or a Figment of Governmental Paranoia? Re-evaluating the Religious Terrorism of Sixteenth-Century Anabaptists in the Netherlands and Holy Roman Empire, 1535-1570," in Grenzen des Täufertums / Boundaries of Anabaptism: Neue Forschungen, eds. Anselm Schubert, Astrid von Schlachta, and Michael Driedger (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2009), 105-25.   His current research is on "The Religious Other in Seventeenth-Century Europe," exploring attitudes toward Jews and Muslims in the popular literature of Christian Europe. For examples of his approach, see “Empathy for the Persecuted or Polemical Posturing? The 1609 Spanish Expulsion of the Moriscos as Seen in Netherlandic Pamphlets,” Journal of Early Modern History 17 (2013), 95-123; or “Menno and Muhammad: Anabaptists and Mennonites Reconsider Islam, 1525-1650,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 41 (2010), 995-1016.

ROBERT WHITNEY (SJ; Latin American History) holds his PhD from Queen’s University. His research centres on the social and economic history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries and plantation societies, slavery, and abolition in the Atlantic world. His current research focuses on the history of the British West Indian community in Cuba in the 20th century. He has published State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940 (2001) and several journal articles, including “History or Teleology: Recent Publications on Pre-1959 Cuba,” Latin American Research Review, 36, Number 2 (2001); The Architect of the Cuban State: Fulgencio Batista and Cuban Populism, 1937-1940, Journal of Latin American Studies , 31, Part 2 (May 2000), 435-59; and The Political Economy of Abolition: The Hispano-Cuban Elite and Cuban Slavery, 1868-1873, in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies, 13, Number 2 (August 1992), 20-36. He has several entries forthcoming in Cuba: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia (Oryx Press, forthcoming, 2002.).

Honorary Research Associates (*Saint Thomas University):

• *Sheila Andrew (Canadian History), PhD (UNB)
• *Rusty Bittermann (Atlantic Canada; Social and Political History), PhD (UNB).
• *Michael Boudreau (History of Crime & Society; Atlantic Canada; Hate Crime), PhD (Queen's University). Interview with Dr Boudreau on the History of Crime.
• R. Bruce Craig (Cold War History; History of Espionage), PhD (The American University).
• *Bradley Cross (American Urban History; US Economic History), PhD (University of Cincinnati).
• *Michael Dawson (Canada; Comparative Consumerism, Tourism & Sport), PhD (Queen's University).
• Stephen Dutcher (Canadian Social and Legal History; First Nations History), PhD (University of New Brunswick).
• Jeremy Hayhoe (Early Modern France; History of Law; Rural History), PhD, Professor of History, Universite de Moncton.
• Colin Howell (Sport History; Atlantic Canadian History), PhD (Univ. Of Cincinnati). Professor of History, Saint Mary's University, Halifax.
• Bonnie Huskins (Canadian Cultural and Social History), PhD (Dalhousie University).
• *Jane Jenkins (History of Science), PhD (University of Toronto).
• Gregory Kennedy (Early Modern History; History of Acadia; Canada; French Atlantic), PhD, Associate Professor, Universite de Moncton.
• Hannah Lane (Canadian Religious and Social History), PhD (University of New Brunswick).
• Margaret E. McCallum (History of Law; Property Rights; PEI), PhD (University of Toronto), Professor, Faculty of Law, UNB.
• Elizabeth McGahan (History of Women Religious; New Brunswick History; History of Tourism; Irish History), PhD (UNB).
• Karen Pearlston (English and Canadian Legal History; Early Modern Women), PhD (Osgoode), Faculty of Law, UNB.
• Richard Raiswell (Premodern Intellectual History; witchcraft, demonology, and the occult; Early Modern Europeans and Asia and Africa), PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of Prince Edward Island.
• *Karen Robert (Latin American History, Urban History, Colonialism and Imperialism), PhD (U of Michigan)
• Lisa Todd (Modern German Social and Gender History), PhD (University of Toronto).
• *Julia Torrie (Modern Germany and France; Social and Cultural History of War), PhD (Harvard Univ.).
• *Robin Vose (Medieval World and Inquisition), PhD (University of Notre Dame).
• *Luc Walhain (Modern East Asia; Korea), PhD (Bowling Green State University).
• Lee Windsor (Military History; Second World War; Canadian Forces in Afghanistan), PhD (University of New Brunswick)
• *Carrie Watt (History of Modern South Asia), PhD (Cambridge Univ.)

Adjunct Professors:

• Dr. Nicholas Tracy (Naval History), PhD (Univ. of Southampton). Independent Scholar.