Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Professors Part-time Professors Adjunct and Emeritus Faculty In Memoriam

Full-Time Professors

Rosana Barbosa, Professor 
B.A. (Universidade Santa Ursula, Brazil), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto) 
Latin America, Brazil, Misusangrations and Brazilian-Canadian Relations
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Blake Brown,  Professor (Sabbatical 2024-25)
B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Toronto), MA (Toronto), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Canada, Legal History, Nova Scotia
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Leslie Digdon, Assistant Professor
BA (Mount Saint Vincent), MA (Dalhousie University), PhD (Univerity of Saskatchewan)
History of science and technology, medicine, gender and the social history of North America and Europe
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Kirrily Freeman, Professor 
Director, Outreach and Experiential Learning 
B.A. (University of Guelph), M.A. (University of Edinburgh), Ph.D. (University of Waterloo) 
Modern Europe, France, Social and Cultural History 
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Heather Green, Assistant Professor
B.A. Honours (Cape Breton University), M.A. (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Environmental, Indigenous, Northern Canada, mining, tourism, health
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Karly Kehoe, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities
B.A. Honours (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ), Ph.D. (University of Glasgow)
Religion, Migration, and Minority Identities in the British Atlantic
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Shira Lurie, Assistant Professor 
B.A. Honours (The University of Western Ontario), M.A. (The University of Western Ontario), Ph.D. (The University of Virginia)
United States, Political History, Cultural History, Historical Memory
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Nicole Neatby, Professor 
Honours and Graduate Coordinator 
B.A. (Ottawa), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Montréal) 
Modern Canada, Tourism, Public History 
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Bill Sewell, Acting Chair, Professor, 
B.Sc. (Wisconsin - Madison), M.A. (California - Davis), Ph.D. (U.B.C.) 

China, Japan, Imperialism, Urban History 
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Tim Stretton, Professor 
B.A. Honours (Adelaide), LL.B. (Adelaide), Ph.D. (Cambridge) 
Tudor and Stuart Britain, Social and Legal History, Women's Legal Rights 
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Xiaoping Sun, Assistant Professor
B.A. (Liaoning & Qiqihaer Normal University), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Santa Cruz)
China, Gender
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Peter L. Twohig Professor
B.A., M.A. (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Atlantic Canada, History of Health and Medicine
 
Michael E. Vance, Professor
B.A.(Simon Fraser), M.A. (York, UK), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Guelph) 
Modern Britain, British Migration, & Colonization
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Lyndan Warner, Professor 
B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge) 
Early Modern Europe, History of the Family, Print Culture 
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Part-Time Professors

Banoub, David 
BA Honours (Memorial University), MA (Carleton University), PhD (Carleton University)
Email: david.banoub@smu.ca
Office: MN216
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Joudrey, Susan
Email: susan.joudrey@smu.ca
Museum Studies, Canadian history, Atlantic Canadian history, and cultural history
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Knapp, Adrian
Email: adrian.knapp@smu.ca
Office: MM219
 
Mrazek, Courtney BA Honours (Mount Saint Vincent University), Masters (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ), PhD (University of New Brunswick)
Email: cmrazek@unb.ca
History of Medicine, History of Science, Canadian History, Atlantic Canadian History
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Wright, Brendan
Email: brendan.wright@smu.ca

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Adjunct Professors

David Campbell
BA (University of PEI)  
MA (University of Toronto)
PhD (University of Calgary)

Military/Diplomatic, First World War, British imperial, ancient Egypt 
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Jill Campbell-Miller 
BA Honours (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ)
MA (University of Waterloo)
PhD (University of Waterloo)

Canadian political history, history of development and development assistance, history of South Asia, and British imperial history
 
Luca Codignola
DL (Rome)
MA (Toronto)
D Litt (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ Hon.)

Roman Catholic church in the North Atlantic area in the early modern era
 
Willeen Keough
Negotiations of gender and ethnicity; contested ethnic terrains and communal violence; interaction between formal and informal belief systems; cultural memory
 
Mark McGowan 
BA (Ottawa)
MA, PhD (Toronto)

Religious, social, and communications history of Canada and Ireland
 
Scott McLean


British and European history
 
Isaac Saney
BA (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ)
MA (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ)
PhD (University of London)

Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history
 
Mark Sweeney
BA (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ)
MA (¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ)
PhD (University Waterloo)

Canadian History, War Crimes, Local & Community History

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Emeritus Professors

D. Owen Carrigan, Ph.D. (Maine) Crime and Punishment in Canada, U.S. Social
Colin Howell, Ph.D. (Cincinnati) (profile and publications) History of Sport, Canada, Atlantic Canada Studies; currently, Director of the Centre for the Study of Sport and Health at the Gorsebrook Research Institute, ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ
James Morrison, Ph.D. (Ibadan) 
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Atlantic World, Africa, Ethnicity and Immigration 
Terrance Murphy, Ph.D.   Religious history of Canada, especially Atlantic Canada
John Reid, Ph.D.
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Colonial Northeastern North America, Maritime Provinces, Canadian Higher Education 

George F.W. Young, Ph.D. (Chicago) Modern Europe, U.S. in the Twentieth Century, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America

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