Emeritus and adjunct faculty

At the University of Victoria “Emeritus” status is granted to retired professors to honour their contributions to students, the university and the wider community.  “Adjunct” status is granted for a three-year term to scholars who are affiliated with the university in some capacity, often serving on supervisory committees for graduate students, or working on research projects with regular faculty members. Emeritus faculty are also named as Adjuncts while they continue to supervise graduate students.

 Name Area
Dr. Rob Alexander European. Modern (post-1789) French history, 19th-Century European Political History
Dr. Peter Baskerville Canadian family and social history Business history, pre-Confederation Canada, quantitative history
Dr. Greg Blue World history , History of Science and Technology
Dr. Harold Coward Indian intellectual history and history of religions
Dr. Ralph Crozier World history, art history, modern Chinese history
Dr. Brian Dippie 19th Century American cultural history, intellectual  history, history of the US West
Dr. John Duder World History with a focus on  White settlement in Africa, Black Diaspora and British Empire
Dr. James Hendrickson British Columbia and the American West, Historical Editing
Dr. Brian McKercher World: The foreign policies of the Great Powers since 1815; 19th and 20th Century British foreign policy; and 19th and 20th Century American foreign policy
Dr. John Price History of modern Japan; race, migration and the Transpacific; Canada and the Cold War
Dr. Rick Rajala Environmental and labour history
Dr. Patricia Roy British Columbia and Canadian political history
Dr. Eric Sager Canadian history, labour history, family history
Dr. Tom Saunders Modern European History, German History, Cinema and Society
Dr. Phyllis Senese French Canada, Post-Confederation Canada, Women’s history  
Dr. Wendy Wickwire Indigenous history, British Columbia, Oral History, History of Northwest Anthropology
Dr. Paul Wood The intellectual history of early modern Europe
Name Area
Dr. Rob Alexander European. Modern (post-1789) French history, 19th-Century European Political History
Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga Public history; museology; curation; oral history
Dr. Matthew Ayre British Arctic whaling trade, Historical Climatology of Baffin Bay
Dr. Greg Blue World history , History of Science and Technology
Dr. Kathryn Bridge  Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Andrew Buck History of law in social context, with a particular interest in property, land and inheritance; the common law settler societies, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Dr. Keith Carlson Canada Research Chair - Indigenous and Community-engaged History - University of the Fraser Valley
Dr. Patrick Dunae  
Dr. Andrea Mariko Grant Social anthropology; art, media, & popular culture; Japanese Canadian history & identity; youth politics in Rwanda
Dr. Larry Hannant Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Frank Leonard Elements of infrastructure development in western Canada and the United States.  He uses different types of business records to illuminate the contradictions of road, rail, and power projects.
Dr. Daniel Marshall History of British Columbia & the Pacific Slope, Transnational, Western America, gold rushes, Indigenous & BC Politics
Dr. Gordon Martel European Imperialism, War and Diplomacy in the period 1870-1945
Dr. Brian McKercher World. The foreign policies of the Great Powers since 1815; 19th and 20th Century British foreign policy; and 19th and 20th Century American foreign policy
Dr. John Price History of modern Japan; race, migration and the Transpacific; Canada and the Cold War
Dr. Rick Rajala British Columbia environmental history, with thematic interests ranging from leisure, sport and tourism to the labour history of resource exploitation.
Dr. Eric Sager Canadian history, labour history, family history
Dr. Tom Saunders Modern European History, German History, Cinema and Society
Dr. David Stafford 20th century British and European history with special reference to war, diplomacy and foreign policy; 20th Century intelligence and espionage with special reference to the UK, USA, and Canada; Winston Churchill’s life and career. 
Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag History of women, gender, children, and British Columbia
Dr. Wendy Wickwire Indigenous history, British Columbia, Oral History, History of Northwest Anthropology
Dr. Whitney Wood History of Health and Medicine; Gender History; Cultural History; Canadian History