Inspiring Historians

This page honours the inspiring professors of history at UVic who have hooked generations of students into the pleasure and value of understanding the past. This impressive group of retirees (also called professor emeritus) have left a legacy of students with a deep understanding of the relationship between past and present. This legacy—those students—are now included in the highest levels of the government in Canada, and from coast to coast, in every walk of life, and in many cases are professors themselves inspiring a new generation.

By date of their retirement, these are the Inspiring Historians whom this page honours. Read more about them and the history of the UVic History Department in the “History of History” by Dr. Patricia Roy and her “True Confessions of My Early Years at UVic.”

We have also honoured these historians by the creation of the Inspiring Historians Legacy Scholarship and raised over $50,000 for undergraduate student scholarships from grateful students, colleagues, friends and supporters. If you would like to help us grow this tribute, you can add your contribution here.

Emeritus Professors by date of retirement.
	Dr. Rob Alexander, 2022. European. Modern (post-1789) French history, 19th-Century European Political History.
	Dr. John Price, 2018 History of modern Japan; race, migration and the Transpacific; Canada and the Cold War.
	Dr. Rick Rajala, 2017 Environmental and labour history.
	Dr. Paul Wood, 2017 The intellectual history of early modern Europe.
	Dr. Eric Sager, 2016 Dr. Sager retired from the University of Victoria in July 2016 after 34 years as a vital member of the Department of History and more than four decades as a leader within the Canadian historical profession. Read More
	Dr. Wendy Wickwire, 2016 Wendy Wickwire retired after twenty years in the departments of History and Environmental Studies at UVic. A revered scholar of British Columbia, her research and teaching has been at the intersection of oral history, environmental history, and ethnography. Read More
	Dr. Greg Blue, 2015 Dr. Greg Blue World history , History of Science and Technology
	Dr. John Duder, 2015 World History with a focus on White settlement in Africa, Black Diaspora and British Empire
	Dr. Andrew Rippin, 2013 Islamic civilization
	Dr. Brian Dippie, 2009 19^th Century American cultural history, intellectual history, history of the US West.
	Dr. Peter Baskerville, 2008 Canadian family and social history Business history, pre-Confederation Canada, quantitative history
	Dr. Angus McLaren, 2008 19^th century European social history
	Dr. Ian MacPherson, 2005 Canadian History, Prairie History, Co-operative Studies.
	Dr. Patricia Roy, 2005 British Columbia and Canadian political history
	Dr. Phyllis Senese, 2005 French Canada, Post-Confederation Canada, Women’s history
	Dr. John Money, 2004 18^th century British history
	Dr. Ted Wooley, 2003 American diplomatic History
	Dr. Harold Coward, 2002 Indian intellectual history and history of religions
	Dr. Ralph Croizier, 2002 World history, art history, modern Chinese history.
	Dr. Donald Senese, 2001 19^th and 20^th century Russia history
	Dr. Bob McCue, 1997 16^th century European history
	Dr. Patricia Tsurumi, 1997 Modern Japan and Women’s Studies
	Dr. James Hendrickson, 1994 British Columbia and the American West, Historical Editing
	Dr. Toby Jackman, 1990 19^th Century British history
	Dr. Charlotte Girard, 1988 20^th Century Diplomacy; Modern France; Canadian Foreign Policy
	Dr. Reg Roy, 1988 Canadian history with a focus on military and strategic studies
	William George Shelton, 1985 Europe in the Age of Enlightenment
	Alfred E. Loft, 1976 Canadian history
	Christopher Rowe, 1972 European history
	Sidney Pettit, 1972 Intellectual History of Europe, British Columbia

Inspiring Historians

Emeritus Professors by date of retirement.

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