Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Tenured, Tenure-Track, and Limited Term
Continuing Education Coordinator
Staff
Sessional and Contract Instructors in the Department of History and The Chang School of Continuing Education
Conor Burns
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Diana Cucuz
Education:
BA in History and Political Science, McMaster University. MA in History, McMaster University. PhD in History, York University.
Areas of Expertise:
North America: Postwar/Cold War American History; Women’s History; Cultural History
Diana Cucuz specializes in American, women’s, and cultural history, and the intersections of foreign and domestic policy with politics, society, and culture. Her research focuses on the ways in which the U.S. government and media politicized women, traditional gender roles, and consumer culture during the Cold War. Her first book, Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds (University of Toronto Press, 2023), demonstrates how print culture was utilized to deploy images of supposedly happy American women as feminine wives, mothers, and homemakers living within capitalist consumer culture. Through “polite propaganda,” such as the Ladies’ Home Journal and Amerika, the U.S. government hoped to convince American and Russian women of the superiority of the American way of life, and simultaneously undermine the Soviet regime. Dr. Cucuz teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University and The Life Institute in diverse areas, including 20th-century American social, cultural, and urban history, as well as foreign policy.
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Evgeny Efremkin
Education:
PhD in History, York University.
Areas of Expertise:
North America, Soviet Union, and International Relations: Migration and Ethnic History; Canadian History; Cold War; Modern Propaganda; Global Politics
Evgeny Efremkin is a contract lecturer in the Department of History and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has also taught at the University of Toronto, York University, and Trent University. Evgeny specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Canadian, Modern European, Migration and Ethnicity, and International Relations History. His research interests include ethno-national identity formation and population management in 20th-century Canada and the Soviet Union. His publications include At the Intersection of Diasporas, Nations, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s (University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming). He is also involved in current IRCC projects evaluating the effectiveness of Welcome Centres in integrating immigrants into Canadian society.
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Thomas H. Greiner
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Peter Mersereau
Education:
BA in History and Film Studies, University of King’s College. MA in History, Dalhousie University. PhD in History, University of Toronto.
Areas of Expertise:
Modern Europe: 19th- and 20th--century Germany; Cinema and Popular Culture
Peter Mersereau teaches in the Department of History and the Chang School at TMU. He offers courses in European history as well as history through film. His research interests include Imperial and Weimar Germany, the First World War, and silent cinema.
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Mima C. Petrovic
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Jason Reid
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Joseph Tohill
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Christopher B. Zeichmann
Retired Faculty
Joey Power
Retired: 2023
Dr. Joey Power taught at Ryerson/Toronto Metropolitan University from 1990. She continues to do research in Central African History with a concentration on Malawi. She was a longstanding editor for the Canadian Journal of African Studies and continues to contribute to a range of scholarly publications in North America, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Power is available to sponsor post-docs at TMU, and continues to do joint graduate supervision.
Ron Stagg
Retired: 2024
Dr. Ron Stagg joined Ryerson/Toronto Metropolitan University when it was known as Ryerson Polytechnic Institute and, over the years, saw many changes in the institution. In retirement he continues to publish both academic and non-academic books and papers. Currently, he is working on a book on the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada (Ontario), and writing on the misuse of history. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, discussing mass protests, the distortion of history in order to justify actions in the present, and the fate of statues commemorating historical figures.
Robert Teigrob
Retired: 2025