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
Steve Bunn’s academic background is in Canadian and European history. His specific research interests involve the history of German prisoners-of-war interned in Canada during the Second World War. Steve’s previous work in the history of science (with the editorial staff of the academic journal Isis and with the John Tyndall Correspondence Project at York University) continues to inform his research interests. Presently, he is preparing an article about Ontario
Supreme Court Justice Frank E. Hodgins. Steve’s teaching at TMU’s Chang School explores the First and Second world wars and the history of propaganda.
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Conor Burns
Education:
BA in Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame. MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. PhD in 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 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 US 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 earned her PhD in History 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 (USA) 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.
In addition to teaching upper-level African history courses for the Chang School at TMU, she is also an Instructional Design Specialist for the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC).
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:
United States: Postwar/Cold War America; Women’s History; Cultural History
Diana Cucuz specializes in American, women’s, and cultural history within the contexts of the intersections of foreign and domestic policy, politics, society, and culture. Her research focuses on the ways in which the US 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 government hoped to convince American and Russian women of the superiority of the American way of life while simultaneously undermining the Soviet regime. She teaches at TMU, 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 Efembkin
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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)
Thomas H. Greiner is completing his PhD at the University of Toronto, specializing on the cultural significance of the 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 via petrographic analyses. Currently, he is preparing a contribution on the earliest import of lapis-lazuli into Egypt for a conference presentation. 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
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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 teaches courses on 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
Education:
BA in History (Minor in French Language and Literature), Trinity College, University of Toronto.
MA in History, University of Toronto. PhD in History, University of Toronto in progress.
Areas of Expertise:
Europe: Early-Modern History with a focus on France; Women and Gender; :Legal, Social, Intellectual, and Cultural History
Mima C. Petrovic received her BA in History and French, and her MA in History, from the University of Toronto, and now is completing her PhD. A specialist in the history of marriage and the family in early-modern France, her doctoral dissertation explores marriage breakdown in 17th- and 18th-century Paris, highlighting the growth of patriarchal authority over women and children. She has presented research in the period’s history of the family, gender, and sexuality, examining the historical constructions of feminine and masculine identities; the contestation of paternal authority; the historical value of storytelling in trial documents; the nature of marital friendship in theory and practice; and the legal and family connections between early-modern France and New France. She has taught courses in the history of Europe, history and film, and the history of ideas in the Department of History and the Chang School of Continuing Education.
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Jason Ried
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Joseph Tohill
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Peter Wronsky
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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
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 (SBL, 2022). As well as teaching in History, he presents courses in the Department of Philosophy.