Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Professors	Part-time Professors	Adjunct and Emeritus Faculty	In Memoriam

Full-Time Professors

Rosana Barbosa, Professor (Sabbatical Fall 2024-Winter 2025) B.A. (Universidade Santa Ursula, Brazil), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto) Latin America, Brazil, Misusangrations and Brazilian-Canadian Relations Profile

Blake Brown, Professor (Sabbatical Fall 2024-Winter 2025) B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Toronto), MA (Toronto), Ph.D. (Dalhousie) Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Canada, Legal History, Nova Scotia Profile

Leslie Digdon, Assistant Professor BA (Mount Saint Vincent), MA (Dalhousie University), PhD (University of Saskatchewan) History of science and technology, medicine, gender and the social history of North America and Europe Profile

Kirrily Freeman, Professor Director, Outreach and Experiential Learning B.A. (University of Guelph), M.A. (University of Edinburgh), Ph.D. (University of Waterloo) Modern Europe, France, Social and Cultural History Profile

Heather Green, Assistant Professor Honours and Graduate Coordinator B.A. Honours (Cape Breton University), M.A. (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Ph.D. (University of Alberta) Environmental, Indigenous, Northern Canada, mining, tourism, health Profile

Karly Kehoe, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities B.A. Honours (Saint Mary's University), Ph.D. (University of Glasgow) Religion, Migration, and Minority Identities in the British Atlantic Profile

Shira Lurie, Assistant Professor B.A. Honours (The University of Western Ontario), M.A. (The University of Western Ontario), Ph.D. (The University of Virginia) United States, Political History, Cultural History, Historical Memory Profile

Nicole Neatby, Professor (Sabbatical Winter 2025) B.A. (Ottawa), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Montréal) Modern Canada, Tourism, Public History Profile

Bill Sewell, Chair, Professor, B.Sc. (Wisconsin - Madison), M.A. (California - Davis), Ph.D. (U.B.C.) http://smu-facweb.smu.ca/~bsewell/ China, Japan, Imperialism, Urban History Profile

Tim Stretton, Professor B.A. Honours (Adelaide), LL.B. (Adelaide), Ph.D. (Cambridge) Tudor and Stuart Britain, Social and Legal History, Women's Legal Rights Profile

Xiaoping Sun, Assistant Professor B.A. (Liaoning & Qiqihaer Normal University), M.A., Ph.D. (California, Santa Cruz) China, Gender Profile

Peter L. Twohig, Professor B.A., M.A. (Saint Mary's), Ph.D. (Dalhousie) Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Atlantic Canada, History of Health and Medicine

Michael E. Vance , Professor B.A.(Simon Fraser), M.A. (York, UK), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Guelph) Modern Britain, British Migration, & Colonization Profile

Lyndan Warner, Professor B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge) Early Modern Europe, History of the Family, Print Culture Profile

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Part-Time Professors

Banoub, David BA Honours (Memorial University), MA (Carleton University), PhD (Carleton University) Email: david.banoub@smu.ca Office: MN216 Profile

Joudrey, Susan Email: susan.joudrey@smu.ca Museum Studies, Canadian history, Atlantic Canadian history, and cultural history Profile

Knapp, Adrian Email: adrian.knapp@smu.ca Office: MM219

Mrazek, Courtney BA Honours (Mount Saint Vincent University), Masters (Saint Mary's University), PhD (University of New Brunswick) Email: cmrazek@unb.ca History of Medicine, History of Science, Canadian History, Atlantic Canadian History Profile

Wright, Brendan Email: brendan.wright@smu.ca

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Adjunct Professors

David Campbell BA (University of PEI) MA (University of Toronto) PhD (University of Calgary) Military/Diplomatic, First World War, British imperial, ancient Egypt Profile

Jill Campbell-Miller BA Honours (Saint Mary's University) MA (University of Waterloo) PhD (University of Waterloo) Canadian political history, history of development and development assistance, history of South Asia, and British imperial history

Luca Codignola DL (Rome) MA (Toronto) D Litt (Saint Mary's Hon.) Roman Catholic church in the North Atlantic area in the early modern era

Willeen Keough Profile Negotiations of gender and ethnicity; contested ethnic terrains and communal violence; interaction between formal and informal belief systems; cultural memory

Mark McGowan BA (Ottawa) MA, PhD (Toronto) Religious, social, and communications history of Canada and Ireland

Scott McLean Profile British and European history

Isaac Saney BA (Saint Mary's) MA (Saint Mary's) PhD (University of London) Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history

Mark Sweeney BA (Saint Mary's University) MA (Saint Mary's University) PhD (University Waterloo) Canadian History, War Crimes, Local & Community History

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Emeritus Professors

D. Owen Carrigan, Ph.D. (Maine)	Crime and Punishment in Canada, U.S. Social
Colin Howell, Ph.D. (Cincinnati) (profile and publications)	History of Sport, Canada, Atlantic Canada Studies; currently, Director of the Centre for the Study of Sport and Health at the Gorsebrook Research Institute, Saint Mary's University
James Morrison, Ph.D. (Ibadan) Profile	Atlantic World, Africa, Ethnicity and Immigration
Terrance Murphy, Ph.D.	Religious history of Canada, especially Atlantic Canada
John Reid, Ph.D. Profile	Colonial Northeastern North America, Maritime Provinces, Canadian Higher Education
George F.W. Young, Ph.D. (Chicago)	Modern Europe, U.S. in the Twentieth Century, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America

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