Faculty

Our people are what make our department special. We are at the forefront of our respective research fields. We teach the history we study and write about. We work alongside our students. And we are part of the local community, bringing history to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. See who we are and what we do

 
Dominique Brégent-Heald

Dominique Brégent-Heald

Professor

Office: A-4013
Telephone: (709) 864-8430
Email: dbheald@mun.ca

Research Interests: U.S. film history; North American borders, borderlands and frontiers; Comparative history of the North American West; U.S. culture history and popular culture; U.S.-Canadian relations; tourism. More Info


Sean Cadigan

Professor

Office: HH-1021A
Telephone: (709) 864-4898
Email: scadigan@mun.ca

Research Interests: Newfoundland and Labrador history; Atlantic Canadian history; Social and ecological history. More Info


Stephan Curtis

Stephan Curtis

Associate Professor 

Office: A-4008
Telephone: (709) 864-7653
Email: stephanc@mun.ca

Research Interests: Modern European social history; History of medicine; Child and maternal mortality; Diffusions and dissemination of medical knowledge; Swedish history. More Info


Justin Fantauzzo

Justin Fantauzzo

Associate Professor

Office: A-4014
Telephone: (709) 864-2128
Email: jfantauzzo@mun.ca

Research Interests: First World War; War and Society; Military History; The British Empire at War; Wartime Cultural Encounters; Modern Middle East, Medical History. More Info


Neil Kennedy

Neil Kennedy

Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator

Office: HH-1004
Telephone: (709) 864-8968
Email: nkennedy@mun.ca

Research Interests: 17th century Bermuda and the Caribbean; Atlantic island ecologies; Plantation societies/archaeology; Slavery and Emancipation; Early Modern Americas; Sensory history. More Info


Michael D. Kirkpatrick

 

Associate Professor

Office: A-4015
Telephone: (709) 864-6109
Email: mkirkpatrick@mun.ca

Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Guatemala and Latin America; urban history; modernity; consumer culture; capitalism More Info


Kurt Korneski

 

Professor

Office: HH-1005
Telephone: (709) 864-3091
Email: kkornesk@mun.ca

Research Interests: Canadian history; Colonialism; Transnationalism; Migration. More Info


Sébastien Rossignol

Sébastien Rossignol

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Liaison


Office: A-4009
Telephone: (709) 864-2602
Email: srossignol@mun.ca

Research Interests: Medieval European history; pragmatic literacy; urban history; intercultural contacts in Central Europe. More Info


John Sandlos

John Sandlos

Professor

Office: A-1022
Telephone: (709) 864-2429
Email: jsandlos@mun.ca

Research Interests: Environmental history; Canadian history; The Canadian North; Aboriginal people and conservation; History of wildlife management and national parks; Mining in Northern Canada; Environmental aesthetics and ideas. More Info


Jeff Webb

Professor and Head

Office: A-4019
Telephone: (709) 864-8420
Email: Jeff.Webb@mun.ca

Research Interests: History of Newfoundland and Labrador; History of Cultural Institutions; History of Social Societies and the Humanities. More Info


Cross-Appointed Faculty

James (Jim) Connor
John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Email: jconnor@mun.ca
Phone: (709) 864-3340

Jennifer Connor
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
Email: jennifer.connor@med.mun.ca
Phone: (709) 864-3336


 

Professors Emeritus

James (Jim) K. Hiller

Honorary Research Professor and University Research Professor
Email: jhiller@mun.ca
Office: A-1021A
Phone: 709-864-8435

Robert Sweeny
Email: rsweeny@mun.ca
Office: A-1019
Telephone: (709) 864-8435
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Honorary Research Professors

Valerie Burton
Email: vburton@mun.ca
Office: HH-1006
Telephone: (709) 864-8433


 

Historians at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Rainer Baehre
Professor 
Email: rbaehre@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS332J
Phone: (709) 637-6278

Edwin Bezzina
Associate Professor 
Email: ebezzina@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS322T
Phone: (709) 637-2191

Kelly Anne Butler
Per Course Instructor
Email: kbutler@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS278A
Phone: (709) 639-4606

Bonnie White
Associate Professor and Program Chair
Email: bjwhite@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS332Q
Phone: (709) 639-6519

Carol King (affiliated)
Associate Professor, Classics
Email: cking@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS332C
Phone: (709) 639-6563 

James G. Greenlee
Professor Emeritus
Email: jgreenlee@grenfell.mun.ca
Phone: (709) 388-0548

Olaf Janzen
Professor Emeritus
Email: olaf@grenfell.mun.ca