Research
SELECTED RESEARCH CURRENTLY UNDERWAY BY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY FACULTY
Department of History instructors conduct research to expand our understanding of earlier times and their meanings. They engage actively in their studies, not only in the cause of good scholarship, but to serve the broad public interest in the past and in defining its influence on today鈥檚 world.
Below are a few samples of research projects currently underway by the department鈥檚 faculty in 2025-26.
TENURE/TENURE TRACK FACULTY
CARL BENN
Book tentatively titled The Royal Ontario Museum: A History to 1947.
Book tentatively titled Museums: Origins, Diversities, Functions, and Challenges.
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CATHERINE ELLIS
Book tentatively entitled Young People, Youth Culture, and the British Government, c.1945-1970.
Article on royal jubilees and English popular culture.
Article on British Young Liberals and anti-apartheid campaigning.
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INGRID HEHMEYER
Journal article titled 鈥淭he Pharmaceutical Profession in Medieval Miniature Painting.鈥�
Book chapter titled 鈥淭he Story of Bayad and Riyad: On the Role of Water in a Thirteenth-Century Manuscript from al-Andalus鈥�
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ARNE KISLENKO
Book on British-Soviet intelligence operations in the 1920s.
Book chapter on Thailand鈥檚 intelligence agencies.
Book chapter on intelligence and security issues in Canada鈥檚 immigration systems.
Documentary film on spies in the Second World War.
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IAN MOSBY
Book tentatively titled Subjected to Colonial Science: Mass Clinical Trials, Prairie Tropical Medicine, and Medical Experimentation on Treaty 6 First Nations, 1964颅-1973.
Journal article (with Alex Williams) tentatively titled 鈥淎n Archive of Mould, Dust, and Ashes: Document Destruction and the Erasure of the Pass System from the Records of the Department of Indian Affairs.鈥�
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JENNIFER TUNNICLIFFE
Book tentatively entitled Drawing the Line: Free Speech and the Regulation of Hate in Canadian Society.
Article on the rise of radical right groups in 1970s Canada and their opposition to changing Canadian citizenship laws.
Article on the spread of Holocaust denialism in Canada (1970s-80s).
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SESSIONAL/CONTRACT FACULTY
DIANA CUCUZ
Book tentatively titled All鈥檚 Fair in Love and the Cold War: Selling the American Way to Russian Women through the American National Exhibition, 1959.
Journal article titled 鈥�Female Hostesses in the Heart of Moscow: Selling Citizen Diplomacy and Consumer Culture to Russian Women through the American National Exhibition, 1959.鈥�
Book chapter on gender, consumption, and Cold War culture for The Routledge History of Global Consumption, forthcoming in the 鈥淩outledge Histories鈥� series.
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EVGENY EFREMKIN
Working paper titled 鈥淓nemies Within: State Responses to the 1919 General Strike and the 2022 Freedom Convoy.鈥�
Working paper titled 鈥�Instrumentalizing Identity: Ethnic Politics, State Legitimacy, and Canada鈥檚 Multicultural Continuum.鈥�
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ROSS FAIR
Book tentatively titled The British Hempire: Hemp in the Canadas, 1786-1834.
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CHRISTOPHER B. ZEICHMANN
Book on anarchistic and radically democratic communities of Mediterranean antiquity.
Book chapter on the role of the Roman military in the monetization of the Palestinian economy after the Roman-Jewish War.
Journal articles on Roman astrological speculation and its reception by early Christians.