Experts & Resources
With long-standing leadership in interdisciplinary teaching and research expertise around the study of Canada, it’s no surprise that Trent has numerous faculty members in a wide array of disciplines that are working on research projects related to Canada, and engaging students in a dialogue about our nation.
Sally Chivers
Professor, English
Lady Eaton College S112 ext 7950, sallychivers@trentu.ca
Research interests: The interplay between aging and disability in the public sphere, with a focus on care narratives in the context of austerity. Ongoing research interests in Canadian literature, film, and how artistic forms, especially literature and film, contribute to critical thought and social movements
Christopher Dummitt
Associate Professor, History
Champlain College J14 ext 7224, cdummitt@trentu.ca
Research interests: Canadian culture and politics, especially, though not exclusively, Canada since 1945
http://www.christopherdummitt.com/
Caroline Durand
Associate Professor, Canadian Studies
Lady Eaton College S103, ext 7109, carolinedurand@trentu.ca
Research interests: Quebec history from 1867 to the present, from social and political perspectives; food history, 1880-1980; the history of popular music; the Quiet revolutions; and women's history
Julia Harrison
Professor Emeritus
Research interests: Tourists and the tourist experience, representation issues in museums; the relationships between museums and Aboriginal peoples; and aspects of the culture or research and educational institutions
John Milloy
Professor Emeritus, Canadian Studies
Research interests: Plains Cree history, government policy, and Canadian residential schools
David Newhouse
Associate Professor, School of Business & Chair, Indigenous Studies
Enweying 301 ext 7497, dnewhouse@trentu.ca
Research interests: The creation of modern Aboriginal societies through traditional Aboriginal thought and western thought; aboriginal contributions to Canada; and indigenous ideas about the future
Heather Nicol
Chair of the School for the Study of Canada & Professor, Geography
Traill College, KH 205 ext 7107, heathernicol@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Critical geopolitics in the circumpolar North, the relationship between the interests of nation-states and peoples of the North, political, historic, and economic realities surrounding the Canada-U.S. border
Bryan Palmer
Associate Professor, History
Champlain College C 1.1 ext. 6061, bpalmer@trentu.ca
Research interests: Canadian radical tradition, the study of the working class and social movements of opposition, the relation of history and theory, social and working-class history
Momin Rahman
Associate Professor, Sociology
Otonabee College, 228 ext 7812, mominrahman@trentu.ca
Research Interests: LGBT citizenship, Muslim LGBT politics and identity, Queer Muslim Visibility in Canada and the United States, celebrity culture, celebrity and charity activism, celebrity and ageing.
Joan Sangster
Professor, History and Gender & Women’s Studies
Traill College WH 101.3 ext. 7705, jsangster@trentu.ca
Research interests: North American women’s history, working class history, law and the state, Aboriginal women’s history, feminist historiography, images of Indigenous life in post World War II Canada
Mark Skinner
Director, Centre for Aging & Society, professor, Geography
Blackburn Hall, 115 ext 7946, markskinner@trentu.ca
Research interests: Health geography, rural aging communities, rural health care and voluntarism
Shirley Williams
Professor Emerita, Indigenous Studies
Gzowski College, ext 1477, siwilliams@trentu.ca
Research interests: Indigenous languages and knowledge preservation
Robert Wright
Professor, History
Durham Campus rm. 167, 905 435 5102 ext. 5046, rawright@trentu.ca
Research interests: Modern Canadian politics, culture and diplomacy