The research projects of the Department of History, while
diverse, focus on a number of
common themes and areas. Several members of the department are
active participants in the Maritimes Studies Research Unit and
are conducting research into the impact of the ocean environment
on mariners and their land-based society and culture. In addition,
the International Journal of Maritime History is published at
MUN. The department has also played a major role in the Tri-Council
Eco Research project on sustainable development in a cold ocean
environment.
The department also houses the journal, Labour/Le Travail and its publisher, the Canadian Committee on Labour History, with considerable strength in the area of labour and working-class history.
The department, while particularly strong in Newfoundland
and Canadian history, also
conducts research in classical studies, ethnohistory, women's
history, and well as in African, American, British and European
history.
BASSLER, Gerhard Professor
Keywords
• German Canadians; Newfoundland immigration; North American
ethnic history; Modern Germany; Latvia, 1934 to 1945
Current research
• The German experience in Canada
• Moravian missions in Labrador
• History of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador
Past research
• Politics of Alfred A. Valdmanis in Latvia, Germany, and
Canada, 1908 to 1970
• Third Reich refugees and Newfoundland immigration policy,
1906 to 1949
• German Canadian mosaic, 1664 to the present
• History of German-speaking immigration, settlement and
culture in Canada
• Enemy alien experience in Newfoundland, 1914 to1918
• Origins of German communism
Potential research
• German soldiers' letters from the eastern front, 1941 to
1944
• Newfoundland's new industries, 1950 to 1956
BRUCE, Ian (see Classics)
CHERWINSKI, J. Professor
Keywords
• Western Canadian history; rural life in Canada; environment
and social change
Current research
• Weather and contemporary legend
• The 1906-07 winter on the Canadian prairies
• Cults and sects on the Canadian prairies
Past research
• Western Canadian farm labour
• Labour migration within Canada
• Saskatchewan trade union history
DEN OTTER, Andy Professor
Keywords
• Pre-Confederation Canada; annexation of western Canada;
transportation; environment
Current research
• Transportation in Canada
• Railways in Canada
• Canadian business history
Past research
• Sir Alexander Galt and western Canadian development
• The transcontinental railway idea in Canada
• The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway
Idea in British North America
ENGLISH, Christopher Professor
Keywords
• Newfoundland's legal history
Current research
• Law and legal culture in Newfoundland1610 to 1832
• Judges, the courts and society in Newfoundland, 1816 to
1914
Past research
• French policy in China and Syria/Lebanon in the 19th-century
• Select topics in Newfoundland Law and Society, 18th-century
FACEY-CROWTHER, David R. Professor
Keywords
• Military; Canada; New Brunswick; Loyalists; Newfoundland;
First World War
Current research
• The King's American Regiment: Profile of a loyalist corps
• The First World War diary of Lieutenant Owen Steele, Royal
Newfoundland Regiment
• War and remembrance: The Great War and the Newfoundland
experience
Past research
• The New Brunswick Militia, 1787 to 1867
• The Atlantic Charter
• Better than the Best: Commemorative history of the Royal
Newfoundland Regiment
Potential research
• The Royal Provincials: New Brunswick's soldier settlers
• Newfoundland and the Great War
HILLER, James K. Professor
Keywords
• Newfoundland and Labrador: eighteenth century; Nineteenth
century; Twentieth century Moravians; fishery; north
Current research
• Twentieth-century Newfoundland and Labrador
Past research
• Moravian missions
• Fisheries diplomacy, 18th and 19th centuries
• Newfoundland and Labrador since 1700
JANZEN, Olaf (see History at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)
KEALEY, Gregory Professor; University Research Professor
(1992); President's award for Outstanding Research (1985)
Keywords
• Social history; labour; intelligence and national security
Current research
• State repression of labour and the left of Canada, 1914
to 1939
• History of the Canadian Secret Service, 1867 to 1995
Past research
• History of the Knights of Labour, Ontario
• Toronto workers, 1850 to 1890
• Labour in Newfoundland
• Labour and Hibernia
Potential research
• Canadian socialist thought
• Newfoundland working class
• Access to information legislation
Other research and consulting
• Security vs the right to know
• Labour relations in Newfoundland construction industry
KEALEY, Linda Professor
Keywords
• Women's history; Canada and the U.S.; 19th and 20th centuries;
Labour; Health and health care
Current research
• Gender, health and the health care industry
Past research
• Women, labour and the left in Canada, 1890 to 1920
MACLEOD, Malcolm Professor
Keywords
• Newfoundland-Canada links; oral history; Confederation;
intellectual history; Memorial University; oceans; Atlantic region;
history of medicine; World Wars
Current research
• Pre-confederation links between Canada and Newfoundland
• Medical education of Newfoundland physicians, to 1950
• Atlantic, regional farm journalism
Past research
• Canadian military studies, 1700s
• Royal Canadian Navy, 1910 to 1980
• Impact of Second World War Canadian and American military
bases on Newfoundland
• Navigational aids for Newfoundland waters
• Memorial University College, 1925 to 1949
Potential research
• Student memories of life at Memorial University College,
1925 to 1950
PARKER, Michael (see Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)
RYAN, Shannon Professor
Keywords
• History; Newfoundland; maritime; cod fishery; seal fishery;
oral history
Current research
• Seal Fishery: 20th - century Newfoundland seal fishery
• Newfoundland oral history of the fisheries and related
activities
Other research, consulting and publications
• Fish out of Water: The Newfoundland Saltfish Trade, 1814
to1914
• The Ice Hunters: A History of Newfoundland Sealing to 1914
• Seals and Sealers: A Pictorial History of the Newfoundland
Seal Fishery
• Fishery to Colony: A Newfoundland Watershed, 1793 to 1815
• The Newfoundland Seal Fishery and the Industrial Revolution
• Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters
• Newfoundland sealing strikes: 1830 to1914
• Consultant and writer: Chronicle of Canada (wrote most
entries on Newfoundland)
• Member of the editorial board (and later editor) for the
Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (wrote articles on "Sealing"
and "Portugal"
• Member of the board for the J.R. Smallwood Foundation
• Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Newfoundland
Studies
SWEENY, Robert C. H. Associate professor
Keywords
• History of capitalism; History of epistemology
Current research
• Computer applications in undergraduate teaching
• Nineteenth-century property relations
• Formation of the petit-bourgeoisie
Past research
• Industrialization in Canada
• Town and country relations in lower Canada
• Relations between merchants and petty commodity producers
in the Newfoundland fishery
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