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Faculty
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Dr. Sascha Auerbach
Assistant Professor
BA (Oberlin), MA, PhD (Emory)
OFFICE: ADM 3084
Tel: 250.960.5314
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Dr. Auerbach was born in London and often returns there to conduct his research, which focuses on Britain and the British Empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Dr. Auerbach's first book, Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), examines the legal, social, and cultural impact of Chinese immigration to Britain, Australia, and South Africa. His articles have been accepted for publication in the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Policy History, and The Historian. He is currently working on his second book manuscript, "Armed with Sword and Scales": Law, Identity, and the Culture of the Courtroom in Modern Britain. Dr. Auerbach teaches courses on modern Britain, modern Europe, the British Empire (esp. South Africa and India), historical theory, and decolonization.
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Modern Britain, Imperialism, Immigration, Law, Nationalism, South Africa
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Dr. Theodore Binnema
Professor and Graduate Student Co-ordinator
BA (Calvin), MA, PhD (Alberta)
Office: ADM 3020
Tel: 250.960.6662
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Dr. Binnema entered the historical profession after teaching high school English and social studies for several years. He has been teaching at UNBC since 2000, where he now teaches HIST 191 The West and the World since 1660, HIST 210 Pre-Confederation Canada, and several undergraduate and graduate courses in aboriginal and environmental history.
His research interests span various aspects of environmental history and aboriginal history. His first book, Common and Contested Ground (2001), for example, examines the human and environmental history of the northwestern plains of North America from AD 200 to 1806. He has also co-edited two books, New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts (2007) and From Rupert's Land to Canada (2001). Dr. Binnema has also published many scholarly articles including articles in Environmental History, The Canadian Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Canadian Studies.
To view a list of Dr. Binnema's refereed publications - click here
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Canadian and US Aboriginal and
Environmental History;
History of Indian Policy
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Dr. Stephanie Cousineau
Assistant Professor, term
BA Hons (Calgary), MA (NewBrunswick),
PhD (Calgary)
Office: Adm 3092
Tel: (250) 960-5313
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Dr. Cousineau was born and raised in Montreal, but began her career in Military History in Calgary. She has previously taught courses in the First World War, Blockade, and Totalitarianism at the University of Calgary, and in International Law, Military and European History at UNBC.
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First World War, German history, naval history, international laws, with specialisation in illegal war in the Second World War. |
Dr. Aileen Espiritu, Assistant Professor
BA (Carleton), MA, PhD (Alberta)
Dr. Espiritu has left UNBC
The History program wishes you well in your future endeavors.
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Dr. Jacqueline Holler
Associate Professor and Program Chair
BA & MA (Simon Fraser), PhD (Emory)
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Dr. Holler is a specialist in colonial Latin America and
women’s/gender history who joined UNBC in 2003. She is the author of Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1530-1601 (Columbia University Press, 2003/205). She is also author of articles and book chapters on early colonial Mexico; co-author, with Peter Bakewell, of the third edition of his History of Latin America (Blackwell, 2009); and co-author of the forthcoming Gendered Society: Canadian Edition (Oxford, 2010). Her current research projects include a SSHRC-funded book-length study of the Cortes Conspiracy of 1566 and a project on women's bodies, health, emotion, and sexuality in early colonial New Spain. A past winner (2005) of UNBC's teaching award, Dr. Holler teaches fourth-year seminars on childbirth and women's bodies and the history of masculinity; History 190 (The West and the World to 1660); and courses on the history of Latin America. She also teaches an introduction to gender studies (WMST 103) in the Women's Studies Program, of which she is coordinator.
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Research Interests:
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Early colonial New Spain, particularly Inquisition, gender, religion, and political culture
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Dr. Charles Jago, Professor
BA (Western Ontario), PhD (Cambridge)
Dr. Jago has retired from UNBC.
The History Program thanks you for your years of service and wishes you well.
Dr. Gordon Martel, Professor
BA (Simon Fraser), MA (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), PhD (Toronto)
(Dr. Martel is now retired from UNBC but will remain Professor Emeritus)
The History Program wishes you well in your retirement.
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Dr. William Morrison
Professor
BA (McMaster), MA (McMaster),
PhD (Western Ontario) DLit (Brandon)
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Dr.
Morrison is a native of Hamilton ON. He is author and co-author of thirteen books. Recent works include True North: The Yukon and Northwest Territories, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998; (with K.S. Coates), reprint of H.A. Cody, An Apostle of the North, 1906), with a critical introduction, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002; Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004; Land of the Midnight Sun: a History of the Yukon, revised and expanded edition, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Brandon University. His co-authored book Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North, Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2008, won the 2009 Donner Prize for best book on Canadian Social Policy.
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Canadian, Northern History
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Dr. Emily Spencer
Assistant Professor, term
BA (Dalhousie),
MA,PhD (Royal Military College of Canada)
Office: Adm 3088
Tel: 250-960-6495
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Dr. Spencer was born in Montreal and has a BA in PSychology from Dalhousie University and an MA and PhD in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. Her first Book Lipstick and High Heels: War, Gender and Popular Culture came out with CDA Press in 2007. Lipstick and High Heels examines how the Second World War affected images of Canadian women and men in the popular media by exploring continuities and changes to the gendered images portrayed in Chatelaine magazine during the thirty years surrounding the Second World War. Dr. Spencer is also the editor of Grass Roots: Senior NCOs on Operations. In Harm's Way, Vol 4, CDA Press, 2008.
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War and Society |
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Dr. Jonathan Swainger
Professor
BA (Lethbridge), MA (Calgary), PhD (Western)
(Dr. Swainger is currently on sabbatical and will return July 1, 2010)
Office: Adm 3091
Tel: (250) 960-5310
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Dr.
Swainger was born in Calgary, Alberta but was raised in Rocky Mountain
House in west-central Alberta. He graduated from the University of
Lethbridge with a BA in History and a Masters from the University of
Calgary. His doctoral studies were undertaken at the University of
Western Ontario from where he graduated in 1992. After working at the
University of Calgary during 1991 and 1992, he joined UNBC in September
1992 as one part of the Quick-Start contingent of instructors. His
first year was spent at the Terrace campus where he taught some of the
first students who would graduate from UNBC. For his second year with
the university he was relocated to Fort St. John where he assumed his
place as the busiest distance education instructor at the university,
delivering courses to students from Fort Nelson in the north to
Williams Lake in the south and the Nass Valley in the west. After eight
years of teaching and research in the Peace River region, he relocated
to the main cmapus in Prince George where he has worked for the past
three years. Since July 2004 he has been chair of the History program.
His first book The Canadian Department of Justice and the Completion of Confederation
came out with UBC Press in 2000. In that work he examined the role of
the Canadian Department of Justice in the completion of the
Confederation scheme and, more specifically, the connection between
notions of the legal system and community identity. His work in the
Peace River region, however, alerted him to that area's crime history
and he is currently writing a book length study on crime in the Peace
from 1910 to 1960. Based on archival records, newspapers, and oral
history interviews, the project details the intricate relationship
between the sense of locale in the Peace and the operation of the
criminal justice system. He has also edited two essay collections, one
already in print with UBC Press and entitled People and Place - Historical Influences on Legal Culture which was co-edited with Professor Constance Backhouse. The second Essay collection - Laws and Societies in the Prairie West, 1670-1940
is co-edited with Louis Knafla, formerly of the University of Calgary
has been released by UBC Press in early 2005. Given his research
interests, Dr. Swainger has been called upon by various media outlets
to comment upon contemporary legal issues such as perceptions of crime
rates, juvenile delinquncy, and the recent trial of a local judge.
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Research Interests:
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Canadian legal and crime history with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries
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Dr. Neil Lettinga,
Adjunct Professor
BA (Calvin College, Michigan),
BSc (Montreal), PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Tel: 250-960-5285
Email: lettinga@unbc.ca
or chaplain@unbc.ca
Office: 4-154
Pictured with his wife Virginia; Neil and Virginia job share a position as a full-time chaplain at UNBC
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Dr.
Lettinga's teaching specialties include European history from 1500 to
the present and African history. Dr. Lettinga and his wife Virginia
also serve in a joint position as chaplains assigned to UNBC. Before
coming to Prince George he spent 19 years teaching at Bethel College,
St. Paul, Minnesota, where he chaired the history department.
Research Interests:
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17th Century English history of ideas, specifically the
development of Anglican theological language; development of the new
Protestant churches in Ethiopia in the second half of the 20th
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