photograph of dr. michael stevenson

dr. michael stevenson

on sabbatical until july 1 2025
mstevens@lakeheadu.ca
+1 705-330-4010ext. 2016
orillia, simcoe hall, room 3016
tuesday, 4:30-6:30 pm
academic qualifications: 
  • phd in history, university of western ontario, 1996
  • ma in history, laurentian university, 1992
  • ba (hons), laurentian university, 1990
date joined lakehead: 
2011
previous teaching/work: 

before joining lakehead's faculty in 2011, dr. stevenson worked for the department of foreign affairs and international trade, mcmaster university, and york university's schulich school of business.
 

research interests: 

dr. stevenson specializes in canadian diplomatic and military history.  he has edited or co-edited four volumes in the documents on canadian external relations series covering the foreign policy of john diefenbaker’s government, and he is currently writing (with eric j. bergbusch) a biography of howard green, canada’s secretary of state for external affairs from 1959 to 1963.  in military history, he has published canada’s greatest wartime muddle: national selective service and the mobilization of human resources during world war ii (mcgill-queen’s university press, 2001).

dr. stevenson is also an editor with the collected papers of bertrand russell project based at mcmaster university.  he co-edited (with andrew bone) volume 21, how to keep the peace: the pacifist dilemma, 1935-1938 (routledge, 2008), and he is presently working on volumes 17, 22, and 23 covering russell’s life and writings from 1923 to 1927 and from 1938 to 1944.

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