The Department of History at the University
of Winnipeg is a community of scholars—faculty members,
undergraduate students, and graduate students—dedicated
to the study of the past. The Department offers courses and supports
research in a wide range of areas, themes, and eras, from our
own city and country to the Americas and Europe and to Africa
and Asia from the Middle Ages to the present.
Our study of the global experiences of humankind
is rooted in an appreciation of the historical diversity of our
own city and province. Collectively our twenty-five full-time
members and seven part- time members have received their training
at a number of universities, the University of Winnipeg itself
and Institutions elsewhere in Canada, the United States, the United
Kingdom, Europe, and Africa.
Our students too bring to the university community
their experiences in Winnipeg, Manitoba, other parts of Canada,
and the world.
Along with undergraduate and graduate programmes
in History, the Department offers an undergraduate programme in
the History of Art. The Department actively contributes to the
University’s commitment to accessibility and offers its
Bachelor of Arts programme at the Winnipeg
Education Centre.
As well, affiliated with the Department are
two endowed chairs in multicultural studies, the Chair in Mennonite
Studies, held by Royden Loewen, and the Chair in German-Canadian
Studies, held by Alexander Freund. The holders of these chairs
conduct research, offer courses, and promote scholarship in their
areas of specialization. Also a member of the Department is Jennifer
S.H. Brown, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal
Peoples. Closely associated with the Department is the Centre
for Rupert’s Land Studies.