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Faculty


Dr. Cristian Berco
Department Chair
Associate Professor

Cristian Berco (Ph.D. Arizona, 2002) joined Bishop's in 2004. His research interests include the history of sexuality, disease, and religion in early modern Spain from a social perspective. 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 and is currently researching the impact of syphilis on patients and communities in the Castilian heartland, through a SSHRC funded project. Dr. Berco teaches the history of medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and modern Latin America

Office: Mor 23
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2412
cberco@ubishops.ca

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Dr. Michael Childs
Professor

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.

Office: Div 28
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2388
mchilds@ubishops.ca

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Dr. Michael Childs

Dr. Patrick Dramé
Assistant Professor

Patrick Dramé is our newest faculty member, joining Bishop's Department of history in January, 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2003, and has held a postdoctoral followship at the University de Montréal. His thesis on French imperial defence in West Africa won the Military History Prize in the French Ministry of Defence and has been published in October 2007. Dr. Dramé teaches in the areas of modern Europe, Africa and contemporary history in a global context.

Office: Mor 4
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2387
pdrame@ubishops.ca

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Dr. Louis-Georges Harvey
Professor

Louis-Georges Harvey was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B. A. Honours) and the University of Ottawa (M. ès Arts, Ph. D.). Dr. Harvey teaches in the areas of American and Quebec history, and the history of the Americas in comparative perspective. His areas of research specialization include book history, the history of political discourse, and the study of cross-cultural communication. He is the author of numerous articles published in scholarly journals and collections across North America in both French and English, and has recently published Le Printemps de l'Amérique française. Américanité, anticolonialisme et républicanisme dans le discours politique québécois, 1805-1837 (Montréal: Boréal, 2005). Recipient of the Student Representative Council's Teaching Award for Humanities in 1999, Dr. Harvey was also designated one of the university's most popular professors in the Macleans reputational surveys of 1999, 2000 and 2002. Dr. Harvey currently holds an SSHRC research grant (2007-2010). In addition to his academic endeavors, Louis-Georges Harvey is a regular contributor on community radio and is frequently invited to speak to community groups.

Office: MCG 308
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2450
lharvey@ubishops.ca

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Dr. Jean Manore
Associate Professor

Jean Manore received her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa in 1995. From there, she went on to post-doctoral studies at Trent University and the University of Calgary, coming to Bishop's in 2001. Her research interests focus on Native/settler relations, the environment and technological development. Her publications include Cross-Currents: Hydro-Electricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario, an edited volume on The Culture of Hunting and articles published in Canada and the United States. Dr. Manore teaches Canadian and American history, both in a national and comparative context. In addition to her academic interests, Dr. Manore is also a research consultant for the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and various provincial counterparts.

Office: Mor 20
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2623
jmanore@ubishops.ca

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Sessional Appointment

Dr. Gordon Barker

After receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and history from McGill University, Gordon Barker entered the graduate program in American history at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He received his MA in 2003 and completed his PhD in 2008 after defending his dissertation entitled Anthony Burns and the North-South Dialogue on Slavery, Liberty, Race and the American Revolution, which he is now re-working as a full-length book. His fields of concentration are the American Revolution, African Americans and Antebellum America. Gordon contributed articles to the Oxford University Press reference edition on African American history entitled From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass and several entries for the American Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties. His recent publications also include an article entitled "Unraveling the Strange History of Jefferson's Observations sur la Virginie" and a review of Jerry W. Knudson's Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty, which both appeared in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.

Office: Mor 3
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2306
gbarker@ubishops.ca

Contract Faculty

Dr. Gisela Chan Man Fong

Gisela Chan Man Fong earned a M.A. from Kiel University (Germany) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK) and her PhD from Concordia. She started to teach Modern Asian and Modern European History at Bishop's in 1992. Prior to that, she has taught at Reading (UK), Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania), Beijing (PR China) and at Canadian universities of New Brunswick, Concordia and McGill. She has published in scholarly journals and edited collections in Britain, Tanzania and China. She specializes in cross-cultural relations between Britain, its colonial empire and China in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2094
gchanman@ubishops.ca

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Dr. D'Arcy Ryan

D'Arcy Ryan (M.A. Bishop's, 1997; Ph.D. Concordia, 2005) has been teaching part time in the History Department at Bishop's since 2001. His research focuses on the poor in nineteenth century Ireland and specifically on Britain's implementation of the Poor Law (Ireland) Act of 1838 and its repercussions during the Famine of 1845-50. Dr. Ryan's other area of interest is Quebec history and the comparative aspects of British colonial policy in Ireland and Quebec.

Office: 5 Mackinnon Drive # 101
Phone: 819 822-9600 ext. 2830
dryan@ubishops.ca