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About the department

The research of our full-time faculty members spans the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our scholarship and teaching reflect our expertise in several specific areas: law and society, gender and sexuality, war and peace, science and the environment, public history and memory, media and popular culture, genocide and human rights, and transnationalism and empire.

Our research centres

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Unique in Canada, our department also houses two research centres – COHDS & CaPSL – that treat oral and digital history and the public presentation of history and culture. Together with our undergraduate honours program in public history, these emphasize scholarship, training, and policy development that involve the wider public’s involvement in history.

Our faculty

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Our faculty are dedicated to excellence in the classroom and to mentoring a diverse and accomplished group of undergraduate and graduate students. Our emphasis on digital technologies, new methodologies, and broad audiences makes Concordia an ideal place to examine the past while engaging with the present.

Quick Contact

Donna Whittaker 
Assistant to the Chair
Graduate Program Assistant 

Dr. Anya Zilberstein
Undergraduate Program Director 
Specialization, Major, Minor 
 

Dr. V.K. Preston
Undergraduate Program Director
Honours Program

Helene Medeiros
Undergraduate Program Assistant
 

Dr. Matthew Penney
Graduate Program Director

Dr. Eric Reiter
Director, Minor in Law and Society 

Alycia Manning
Enrolment Coordinator, Law and Society 

Dr. Gavin Taylor
Interim Public History Director

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