Jan Grabowski
Full Professor, Department of History
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
University Degrees
1994 ― PhD, Université de Montréal
1986 ― MA, History, Warsaw University, Poland
Fields of Interest
Holocaust, Amerindians in Canada, and New France.
Gelen Perras
Associate Professor, Department of History
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
University Degrees
1995 ― PhD American and Canadian History University of Waterloo
1986 ― MA War Studies Royal Military College of Canada
1984 ― BA (Honours) History University of Regina
Fields of Interest
20th century American military and diplomatic history, Canadian-American relations, International relations in the pacific world in the 20th century, and Commonwealth military relations.
Hernan Tesler-Mabé
Part-time Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa
Hernan Tesler-Mabé dissertation, A Jewish Conductor, A Devoted Mahlerite, and a Delicate String: The Musical Life of Heinz Unger, 1895-1965, explored the manner in which the strands of German Jewish identity converged and were negotiated by a musician who lived a sizeable portion of his life in a Double Diaspora (in the Jewish Diaspora as well as exiled from his European home) yet never cut the ties to a German Jewish tradition. In 2011, Dr. Tesler-Mabé was appointed to the Board of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and continues to serve in this role.
University Degrees
2010 ― Ph.D. in History at the University of Ottawa
Fields of Interest
Alongside his ongoing work on Jewish history, his research interests include: Modern Europe, European integration, and Ethnicity and Nationalism.
Asselin, Marie-Dominique
In Poland, during the war, the Jews were separated from the Catholic population through the creation of ghettos. Despite the physical separation of the two communities, both Jews and Poles were still subject to the provisions of the pre-war Polish penal code. Shortly after the conquest of Poland, the Germans created a two-tier system of justice: while the violations of German war-time regulations were automatically referred to the German courts (Sondergerichte and Deutsche Gerichte), the entire “common” criminality was still tried in the Polish courts. The analysis of Polish court records gives us an opportunity not only to look at the relations between Jews and Poles from a new perspective but also to understand how the Jews lived in the years before the extermination began.
University Degrees
2014-2019 ― PHD, History. University of Ottawa
2012-2014 ― MA, History. University of Ottawa
2011-2012 ― Certificate, History. UQAM (Montreal)
2008-2012 ― BA, French literature. UQAM (Montreal)
Fields of Interest
Polish/Jewish Relations – Polish Judicial system – Antisemitism – Polish Administration (1919-1939) — Administration of the Generalgouvernment – Jewish everyday life.