Faculty and Staff

Dr. Fred Donnelly

Fred Donnelly (Ph.D. Sheffield) teaches the British field of courses and is mainly interested in Modern British Social History.
email: donnelly@unb.ca


Dr. Cheryl Fury

Cheryl Fury holds a B.A. (Honours History & English) and an M.A. from the University of New Brunswick.  She received her Ph.D. from McMaster University. She has written a book, Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen 1580-1603, as well as several articles and reviews (published in The Mariner’s Mirror, The International Journal of Maritime History, The Northern Mariner, Proceedings of the Atlantic Theological Conference, American Neptune, The Canadian Journal of History, Canadian Historical Reviews,  H-Albion and Sixteenth Century Journal). She has also contributed entries and essays to a wide range of historical encyclopedias. In addition, she is currently on the Editorial Board of The Northern Mariner, the official publication of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, and serves as a referee for the Northern Seas yearbook and Journal of British Studies. She is editing two books on the social history of early modern seamen as well as articles on the early voyages of the East India Company.

She teaches course in Social history of maritime Europe; the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in Europe; Tudor-Stuart England; Crime & Punishment in Early Modern Europe.

email: cfury@unb.ca


Dr. Debra Lindsay

Debra Lindsay (Ph.D. Manitoba) studies the social and political aspects of 19th century North American science. Recent publications in this area include "Prototaxites Dawson, 1859 or Nemtophycus Carruthers, 1872: Geologists v. Botanists in the Formative Period of the Science of Paleobotany" (Earth Sciences History 2005) and current research focusses on the transnational basis of late 19th and early 20th century U.S. science --  focusing on palaeontology done by Smithsonian scientist C.D. Walcott, the "discoverer" of the Burgess Shale Fossils in British Columbia.

She teaches courses in US history.
email: dlindsay@unb.ca


Dr. Greg Marquis

Greg Marquis (Ph.D. Queen's) is interested in the social history of crime, law enforcement, and the criminal justice system. His work has been published in The Journal of Canadian Studies, the Journal of Family History, Acadiensis, the University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Urban History Review, and Criminal Justice History. His most recent book focuses on the impact of the American Civil War in Canada (In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, 2000). He currently is working on the history of alcohol control in 20th century Canada, historical commemoration and the urban history of 20th century Saint John.

He teaches courses in Canadian history.
email: gmarquis@unb.ca


Dr. Peter Toner (Honorary Research Professor)

Peter Toner (Ph.D. National University of Ireland) is a professor of Canadian history with an interest in Irish immigration, settlement, and social history. He serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and Acadiensis. He is currently working on a demographic study of Irish settlement in New Brunswick. He teaches courses on medieval and modern Irish history, in addition to courses on Canadian political and social history.
email: toner@unb.ca


Dr. Robert Whitney

Robert Whitney received a Ph.D in Latin American history from Queen's University. His specialty is Latin American social and economic history between 1850 and 1950 and his research focuses on twentieth century Cuba and Spain. He is the author of the book State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Dr. Whitney has also authored several articles in scholarly journals. In addition to his academic work, Whitney is involved in development and solidarity work with popular organizations and community groups in El Salvador.
email: whitney@unb.ca

 


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