Dr. Cheryl Fury
Cheryl Fury is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She teaches courses in European history and in particular Tudor-Stuart England, European expansion, the Reformation & Counter-Reformation, early modern women and fascism. She also enjoys teaching abroad for the UNB travel study program.
She holds a BA (Honours History & English) and an MA from the University of New Brunswick. She received her PhD from McMaster University and held the Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellowship in Maritime History from the John Carter Brown Library.
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 Reviews, H-Albion, Journal of Maritime Research 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 a number of publications.
Cheryl has been nominated for a number of teaching awards on both campuses of UNB, winning a Departmental Achievement in Teaching Excellence Award and the Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2010 she was awarded a scholarship to attend the March of the Living Holocaust Tour for Educators.
Her recent book, The Social History of English Seamen volume I has been released by Boydell and Brewer Publishers (2012); volume II is forthcoming. Her article, "The First English East India Company Voyage: The Human Dimension, 1601-03", will appear in the December edition of The International Journal of Maritime History (2012).
Cheryl wrote "Entering that Darkness" as part of the University of London's Institute of Education's International Perspectives on Holocaust Education (2012). She has also assisted with and edited Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff's article, "Refusing to Give in to Despair: The Children and Teachers of Terezin" in Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators (Spring 2012, volume 4). Cheryl annotated and edited Vera Schiff's most recent book, The Theresienstadt Deception: The Concentration Camp the Nazis Created to Deceive the World (2012) as well as revising and expanding two of Schiff's previous works for on-line publication, Hitler's Inferno and her award-winning memoir, Theresienstadt: The Town the Nazis Gave the Jews.
Cheryl is also a fellow and associated faculty of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.
