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 Croizier 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. Angus McLaren 19th century European social history
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. 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. Matthew Ayre British Arctic whaling trade, Historical Climatology of Baffin Bay
Dr. Greg Blue World history , History of Science and Technology
Dr. Kathryn Bridge  
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. Lorne Hammond Canadian, US, and world environmental history (Canadian, US, global); Pacific Northwest fur trade, social history of BC resource-based communities; general BC topics; museology or public history.
Dr. Larry Hannant Human rights; The Left and New Left in Canada 1920s to 1970s; Spanish Civil War; Doukhobors; Cold War Canada and U.S.
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. Rosemary Ommer PG/PDG grantscrafting. History, geography and environmental studies, especially interdisciplinary work that crosses such boundaries.
Dr. John Price History of modern Japan; race, migration and the Transpacific; Canada and the Cold War.
Dr. Yasmin Railton Public history; museology; curation; oral history
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. 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.