Contact Information

Department of History
155 Séraphin Marion Street
Room 105
Ottawa ON Canada
K1N 6N5

Tel.: 613-562-5735
Fax: 613-562-5995
history@uOttawa.ca


Natacha Lemieux
Academic Assistant, Undergraduate Studies
155, Séraphin-Marion street, Room 112
Tel.: 613 562-5800 ext. 1421
arts@uOttawa.ca

Suzanne Dalrymple
Academic Assistant, Graduate studies
155, Séraphin-Marion street, Room 113
Tel.: 613 562-5800 ext. 1297
suzanne.dalrymple@uOttawa.ca

Office Hours

Monday to Friday

September to May
8:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

June to August
8:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Fields of interest of professors Department of History

Éric ALLINA — PhD History, Yale University

  • African history
  • Slavery
  • Colonial history
  • African diaspora history
  • Indian Ocean
  • Historical methodology

Pierre ANCTIL — Doctorate in Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York

  • Jewish History in Montreal
  • Yiddish literature in Montreal
  • History of Immigration in Canada

Jacques BARBIER

Michael D. BEHIELS — PhD. History, York University

  • History of Modern Canada with an emphasis on political, ideological and constitutional development pertaining to the Canadian federal system and Quebec's role within the federation.

Damien-Claude BÉLANGER - PhD, History, McGill University

  • Canadian intellectual history with a special focus on Quebec
  • Canadian-American relations

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Jean-François BÉLISLE — PhD, University of Ottawa

  • Latin American economic and social history
  • Comparative history of Guatemala and Ecuador

Lotfi BEN REJEB — PhD American Studies, Indiana University

  • United States History (18th-19th century)
  • Relations United States-Islamic World
  • African-American History

Peter BISCHOFF — PhD, Université de Montréal

  • Economic history and of the working class in Canada
  • History of Quebec
  • Economy and work

Michel BOCK — PhD, University of Ottawa

  • Histoire de la francophonie canadienne, de l’Ontario français et du Québec
  • Histoire intellectuelle et politique
  • Évolution de la problématique identitaire au Canada français

André CELLARD - Ph.D., Histoire, Université d'Ottawa

  • Criminal alienation
  • Evolution of Measures of Social Control
  • History of Confinement
  • Social History of Québec
  • Sociology of "Mental Illnesses"

Sharon COOK

  • Women's history
  • Educational history
  • Women and educational pressure groups
  • Women and evangelical religion
  • Gender issues in education
  • History of health education (including anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco)

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Richard CONNORS — PhD Modern History, Cambridge University

  • Early Modern Britain
  • Modern Britain
  • British Empire

Béatrice CRAIG — PhD History, University of Maine

  • North American history
  • Women’s history

Micheline D’ALLAIRE — PhD, University of Ottawa

  • Nouvelle-France
  • Histoire socio-religieuse du Canada français

Naomi DAVIDSON - Ph.D., History, University of Chicago

  • Islam in France
  • Immigration
  • The Mediterranean World

Robert DIENESCH — PhD American History, University of New Brunswick

  • American (and general) military / Intelligence history
  • American foreign policy
  • History of science and technology

Jean-Claude DUBÉ — PhD, Université Paris

  • Economic and Social History of Ancien Régime France

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Serge DURFLINGER — PhD, McGill University

  • Post-confederation Canada
  • Canadian military and diplomatic history
  • Naval history
  • War and society
  • Commemoration and memory
  • The world wars

Kouky FIANU — PhD Sciences médiévales, Université de Montréal

  • French Medieval History (13th-15th century)
  • Production and social practices of the written word
  • History of notaries
  • Book craftsmen in the Middle Ages

Alberto FLOREZ-MALAGON — PhD History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • Cultural studies and cultural history
  • Postcolonial and subaltern studies
  • Historiography and transdisciplinarity
  • Environmental history
  • Latin American studies
  • Cultural Globalization

Yves FRENETTE

  • History of North-American Francophones
  • Immigration
  • Ethnicity

Chad GAFFIELD — PhD, University of Toronto

  • Canadian social history

Corinne GAUDIN — PhD, Michigan University

  • Imperial Russia
  • Soviet Union
  • Rural societies, legal history  

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Toby GELFAND — PhD History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

  • Medicine and naturalist literature
  • The origins of psychotherapy, the history of locomotor ataxia
  • Benjamin Franklin and Paris medicine

Jan GRABOWSKI — PhD History, University of Montreal

  • Holocaust
  • Amerindians in Canada
  • New France

Robert GRAVELLE

Adam GREEN — PhD History and Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa

  • Canadian-American Relations (Social, Cultural, Identity)
  • 20th Century Canada
  • 20th Century United States
  • Social Gospel / Moral Reform

Julian GWYN — PhD, University of Oxford

  • History of the British Isles 1680-1980
  • The colonial era of American History
  • Pre-confederation Nova Scotia

Henri HABIB

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Ruby HEAP — PhD, University of Montreal

  • History of Women
  • History of education
  • History of the professions in Canada, 19th-20th centuries

Cornelius JAENEN — PhD, University of Ottawa

  • Franco-Amerindian relations
  • New France
  • Canadian history: native peoples, religious and educational aspects
  • Ethnic studies

Lawrence C. JENNINGS — PhD, Wayne State University

  • French colonial and political slavery and the slave trade

Mark JURDJEVIC — PhD History, Northwestern University

  • Renaissance Italy
  • Early Modern Europe
  • Intellectual History

Jeffrey KESHEN — PhD, York University

  • 20th century Canadian political and military history

Dimitri  KITSIKIS — PhD, Université Sorbonne

  • History of international relations
  • Greek-Turkish relations
  • China  

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Eda KRANAKIS — PhD, University of Minnesota

  • History of Technology
  • History of European Integration

Paul LACHANCE — PhD, Wisconsin University

  • Social history of the United States in the 19th century
  • Immigration and ethnic and racial minorities
  • Quantitative methods in History
  • Historical demography

Micheline LESSARD — PhD, Cornell University

  • History of Vietnam
  • History of Southeast Asia
  • History of women in Asia

Heather MURRAY PhD, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • U.S. History, Especially Post 1945
  • History of Private Life, Especially History of Family Life, History of Gender/Sexuality, History of Emotions, History of Therapeutic Cultures
  • Cultural and Intellectual History

Viren MURTHY — PhD History, University of Chicago, Illinois

  • Modern Chinese intellectual history
  • Modern Japanese intellectual history
  • Marxism and historiography

David PANTALONY - PhD University of Toronto

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Galen Roger PERRAS — PhD American and Canadian History, University of Waterloo

  • 20th century American military and diplomatic history
  • Canadian-American relations
  • International relations in the pacific world in the 20th century
  • Commonwealth military relations

Sylvie PERRIER — PhD History, Université de Paris VIII

  • History of early modern Europe and France
  • Sociocultural history of the family
  • History of French law, 17th-18th centuries

Elizabeth  RAPLEY — PhD, University of Ottawa

  • History of the Ancien Régime France

Peter RIDER — PhD, University of Toronto

  • Public and material history of the Atlantic provinces

Ryme SEFERDJELI — PhD, The London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Modern Middle Eastern and North African history
  • Women and gender history (Middle East and North Africa)

Georges SIOUI — PhD History, Université Laval

  • Metahistory and history of Aboriginal peoples
  • Aboriginal philosophy and spirituality
  • Aboriginal/Indigenous education
  • Canadian studies

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Timothy STANLEY — PhD, University of British Columbia

  • History of racism
  • Chinese in Canada
  • British Columbia history
  • History of education
  • Anti-racism education
  • Post-colonial theory

Mark STOLÀRIK — PhD, Minnesota University

  • History of Slovakia and the Slovaks
  • Immigration to North America
  • East Central Europe

Nicole ST-ONGE — PhD, University of Manitoba

  • History of the Metis
  • Canadian West
  • Oral history
  • Ethnohistory

Meredith TERRETTA — PhD History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Africa south of the Sahara
  • Political and cultural history
  • Nationalisms
  • Post-colonialism
  • Human Rights
  • Historiography

Marcel TRUDEL - D. Ps L., Université Laval

  • Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, 17e siècle

Vasilis VOURKOUTIOTIS — PhD History, McGill University

  • Modern Germany / Europe
  • Military affairs and international law
  • Diplomacy and international relations

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Hubert WATELET  —  Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres (Histoire), Université catholique de Louvain

  • Socio-economic history (industrial revolution)
  • History of the mentalities (family life, oral history)
  • Historiography - epistemology (movement of the reports; subjectivity)
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