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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

Steve Bunn

Education:

BA in History, McMaster University. MA in History, McMaster University. PhD in in History, York

University in progress.

Areas of Expertise:

Canada: 19th- and 20th-Century Science and Society; the World Wars; Canada and Nazi Germany

sbunn@torontomu.ca

Steve Bunn’s academic background is in Canadian and European History, and his specific research interest explores German prisoners-of-war interned in Canada during the Second World War. Steve’s teaching at TMU’s Chang School examines the First World War, the Second World War, and the History of Propaganda. His previous work in the History of Science as a researcher for the John Tyndall Correspondence Project at York University continues to inform his academic interests. The author of several entries pertaining to the Canadian colonial period in The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775, Steve’s most recent work, an article entitled “’Refraining from Entering into the Unknown and Speculative’: a Canadian ‘Eclipse of Darwinism’ in Justice Frank Hodgins’ Court, 1915-1919,” recently was submitted to the History of Science Society’s journal Isis for publication consideration.

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Conor Burns

Education:

BA in Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame. MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.

Areas of Expertise:

Science and Technology: North America; 19th-20th-Century Field and Earth Sciences, as well as related technologies

conor.burns@torontomu.ca

Conor Burns has taught a range of History of Science and Technology courses at TMU since 2009. He also has taught at the University of Toronto and York University. He served as a book review editor for Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society, from 2004 to 2012, and was on the executive council of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science from 2008 to 2020. Earlier, Conor worked in cultural resource management archaeology from 1991 to 1997 for firms based in the Pittsburgh area. He participated in numerous archaeological surveys and data-recovery projects throughout the mid-Atlantic and mid-western United States, with many projects having occurred under contract and in conjunction with the U.S. National Park Service.

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Jessica Cammaert

Education:

BA in Global Studies and History, Wilfrid Laurier University. MA in History, Queen’s University. PhD in History, Queen’s University. MA in Educational Technology (MET), University of British Columbia in progress.

Areas of Expertise:

Africa: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Histories of Development; International Relations in Africa

jessica.cammaert@torontomu.ca

Jessica Cammaert earned her PhD from Queen’s University, Kingston in 2014, publishing her first book, ‘Undesirable Practices’: Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972 with the University of Nebraska Press in 2016. It was the first in UNP’s “Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Series,” and was nominated for the National Women’s Studies Association (U.S.A.) Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, and the Joel Gregory Book Prize for the Canadian Association of African Studies. Her work also has been published in The Journal of African History and Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Play.

Jessica previously taught History and Global Studies courses at Queen’s and Wilfrid Laurier universities, as well as Justice and Global Conflict with the International Relations stream of the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto.

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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

cucuzd@torontomu.ca

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, the University of Toronto St. George and Mississauga campuses, 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:

BA in History and Political Science, York University. MA in History, York University. PhD in History, York University.

Areas of Expertise:

North America: Migration and Ethnic History; Canadian History; Cold War; Decolonization; Social and Cultural History; International Relations; Global Politics

efremkin@torontomu.ca

Evgeny Efremkin is a contract lecturer in the Department of History and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at TMU. He also has 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); and “Transnationalism, Celebratory Canadian Immigration History Narratives, and the Karelian Fever,” in Collection of Essays in the Memory of Gabrielle Scardelatto,” (forthcoming).

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Thomas H. Greiner

Education:

BA in Classical Archaeology, University of British Columbia. MA in Egyptology, University of Liverpool. PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Toronto in progress.

Areas of Expertise:

Egyptian and Western Asian Antiquity: Cultural Contacts and Trade, Lapis-Lazuli, Egyptian State Formation; Museums and Egyptology (Material Culture, Collections History, and Outreach)

tgreiner@torontomu.ca

Thomas H. Greiner is completing his PhD at the University of Toronto, specializing in the cultural significance of the semi-precious stone, lapis-lazuli. He investigates how the ancient Egyptian world used lapis-lazuli, and in particular, examines its role within Egyptian state formation. A major component of his studies explores the ancient source of the stone through petrographic analyses. Currently, he is preparing a conference presentation on the earliest import of lapis-lazuli into Egypt.  He also maintains a blog (www.nilescribes.org (external link) ) as a means of outreach to the general public, with the goal to make the field more inclusive and accessible.

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Laurie Jacklin

laurie.jacklin@torontomu.ca

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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:

Europe: 19th- and 20th-century Germany; Cinema and Popular Culture

peter.mersereau@torontomu.ca

Peter Mersereau teaches in the Department of History and the Chang School at TMU. He offers courses in European History as well as Film and History. His research interests include Imperial and Weimar Germany, the First World War, and silent cinema. His chapter “The Cinema’s Front Row: Audiences and Authentic Experience in German Cinema during the First World War” recently was published in the edited collection Proximity and Distance: Space, Time, and the First World War.

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Mima C. Petrovic

mcpetrov@torontomu.ca

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Jason Reid

jason.reid@torontomu.ca

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Joseph Tohill

jtohill@torontomu.ca

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Lu Wang

Education:

BA in Chinese Language and Literature, Hubei University. MA in Chinese Philology, Hubei University. PhD in Chinese Philology, Beijing Normal University. PhD in History, Western University.

Areas of Expertise:

East Asia: Early Modern Chinese History; Material Culture; Textile History; Digital History; Digital Humanities

dr.luwang@torontomu.ca

Lu Wang specializes in the history of early modern China with focuses on textile history and material culture. Her research explores the intricate intersections of technology, gender, commerce, and art during periods of societal transitions. Utilizing digital research methods, she examines both textual and visual sources. She currently is a topic editor for Reviews in DH and contributes to The Digital Orientalist.

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Peter Wronsky

pwronsky@torontomu.ca

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Christopher B. Zeichmann

Education:

BA in Theology (intensified) and Classics, Valparaiso University. MA in Biblical Studies, Claremont School of Theology. PhD in New Testament, University of Toronto.

Areas of Expertise:

Ancient Mediterranean: Early Christianity and Judaism; Greece and Rome; History of Christianity

zeichman@torontomu.ca

Christopher B. Zeichmann specializes in the Graeco-Roman context of early Christianity, locating the religion within the political and social institutions of the time. His books include The Roman Army and the New Testament (Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2018); The Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine (Signifer, 2022); Queer Readings of the Centurion at Capernaum: Their History and Politics (Society of Biblical Literature, 2022). As well as teaching in History, he presents courses in Religious Studies (within the Department of Philosophy), and in Arts and Contemporary Studies.

Retired Faculty

Joey Power

Retired: 2023

jpower@torontomu.ca

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.