Educated at McGill University (BA Economics, BA Honours in History), and the College of William and Mary in Virginia (MA and PhD. in History), Gordon Barker began his career at Bishop’s in 2006. Specializing in African American, Revolutionary America, and Civil War Era history, he has published two major books and several articles and reviews in leading scholarly journals. In 2010, he received the Virginia Historical Society’s prestigious William M.E. Rachal Award. He has also received numerous teaching excellence awards. He teaches the American surveys and upper-level thematic courses on African Americans, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and Women in Early America.

Cristian Berco (Ph.D. Arizona, 2002) joined Bishop's in 2004. His research focuses on the social history of the body, mainly through work on sexuality, disease and ethnicity. His book Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2007, examines sodomy trials in the Aragonese Inquisition. He has also published in various academic journals and edited collections on the social dimensions of the early modern syphilis epidemic. As Canada Research Chair in Social and Cultural Difference and currently funded by a SSHRC grant, Dr. Berco is investigating bodily constructions gender and race in Spanish inquisitorial trials. Dr. Berco teaches the history of medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and modern Latin America.

Michael Childs obtained his doctorate at McGill University and came to Bishop's in 1988. A specialist in modern Britain and social history, his study of working class adolescents in Britain, Labour's Apprentices, was selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book. He has also published in scholarly journals in Canada, the United States and Britain, and is presently at work on a book-length study of an English city in World War I. Dr. Childs teaches British and Western European history, courses in family and youth history, and historiography. He has been the recipient of the University's William and Nancy Turner Award for excellence in teaching.

Louis-Georges Harvey received his PhD from the University of Ottawa in 1990 after coming to Bishop’s in 1988.  His research focusses on early Québécois political discourse and he has published extensively on the history of the Patriote movement in Lower Canada, including a book on the topic titled Le Printemps de l'Amérique française. Américanité, anticolonialisme et républicanisme dans le discours politique québécois, 1805-1837 (Montréal: Boréal, 2005).  A specialist on neo-roman republican theory, he has also recently published the first anthology of Québécois republican writing, De la république en Amérique française. Anthologie pédagogique des discours républicains au Québec, 1703-1967 (with S. Kelly, M. Chevrier et S. Trudeau, Québec, Septentrion, 2013). He is currently completing a monograph on English language political discourse in Lower Canada.  Dr. Harvey teaches the history of Quebec and Canada, as well as advanced courses in the history of communications and historical theory.  He has won numerous teaching awards and distinctions.

Jean Manore (Ph.D. Ottawa, 1995) came to Bishop’s in 2001. Her research interests focus on the historical understandings of Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the tensions between environmental advocacy and technological development. Her publications include Cross-Currents: Hydro-Electricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario and numerous articles; she is also a co-editor of The Culture of Hunting. In addition to her academic interests, Dr. Manore has produced numerous research reports for the federal and Ontario governments. Currently, she is exploring the historical understandings of the terms of Treaty #9, signed between the federal, Ontario and First Nations of northern and northwestern Ontario, in 1905-06. Dr. Manore teaches post-Confederation Canadian and Public History.

David Webster (Ph.D. British Columbia 2005) teaches international and Asian history topics with a focus on the 20th century. He came to Bishop’s in 2012 by way of positions in Toronto, San Francisco and Regina. His book Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World (UBC Press, 2009) examines Canada-Indonesia relations from 1945 to 1999 at both government and civil society levels. Previously he was collection editor of East Timor” Testimony (Between the Lines, 2004).  His research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, concentrates on trans-Pacific interactions between Canada and Asia, and on the diplomacy of independence movements in Asia.

Julie Allard (Ph.D. Paris-1/UQAM, 2008) joined Bishop’s in 2011. Her research interests focus on the cultural and urban history of early modern France. Her dissertation examined the changing meaning of Paris’ Place de Grève (today’s Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville) from the late 17th to the early 19th century. She is particularly interested in understanding how early modern individuals and groups conferred meaning to space and how, in turn, space became a potent force for historical change. Dr. Allard teaches medieval and early modern European history. In addition to her academic interests, Dr. Allard is a research consultant in the field of heritage, working mainly with the provincial government and municipalities.

Cynthia Fish received her Maîtrise at La Sorbonne (1984) and her Ph.D. at McGill (1991). She has most recently received a Masters in Educational Technology from George Washington University (2002). Her article on changing legal interpretations of paternal authority whom the Guy-Frègault prize in 2004. She has taught Canadian, North American, Medieval history as well as numerous women and gender courses. She has worked for school commissions, government agencies and museums. She is currently conducting research on masculine identities in Canada at the turn of the last century.