Advisory board
Ryan K. Balot
Ryan K. Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. The author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001); Greek Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006); and Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), Balot specializes in classical political thought. He received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University and his B.A. degrees in Classics from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Before moving to Political Science at Toronto, he taught for nearly a decade in the Classics departments at Union College and Washington University in St. Louis. Balot’s research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Teagle Foundation of New York. His essays and reviews have appeared in such venues as Political Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Social Research, and The Journal of Hellenic Studies. His current research focus is Plato’s Laws; after completing work on this project, he will turn his attention to Hegel.
Robert Bothwell
Robert Bothwell has taught history at the University of Toronto since 1970, and is the author of major works on Canadian political and diplomatic history. He has served as Director of the International Relations Program at Trinity College, where he holds the May Gluskin Chair in Canadian History. He has been a co-editor and editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1972-80). He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including C.D. Howe (1979), Canada 1900-1945 (1987), Canada Since 1945 (1989), Pirouette (1990), Our Century (2000), Eldorado (1984), Nucleus (1989), Canada and the United States (1992), Canada and Quebec(1995), The Big Chill (1998),The Penguin History of Canada (2006), and Alliance and Illusion (2007).
Eric T. Jennings
Eric T. Jennings (PhD UC Berkeley, 1998) is Chair of the Department of History and a leading authority on modern France, French colonialism, decolonization, and the francophone world. His latest book is Vanilla, the History of an Extraordinary Bean (Yale University Press, 2025). He won a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and was awarded a University of Toronto Distinguished Professorship the following year. He is the 2025 recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Pierre Chauveau Medal for distinguished contribution to knowledge in the Humanities.
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Margaret MacMillan
Professor Margaret MacMillan became the fifth Warden of St Antony’s College in July 2007. Prior to taking on the Wardenship, Professor MacMillan was Provost of Trinity College and professor of History at the University of Toronto. She was educated at the University of Toronto (Honours B.A. in History) and at St Hilda’s College, and St Antony’s College, Oxford University (BPhil in Politics and DPhil). From 1975 until 2002 she was a member of the History Department at Ryerson University in Toronto and she also served as Chair of the Department. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, and sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress, and the editorial boards of Global Affairs, International History, and First World War Studies.
Ronald W. Pruessen
Ronald W. Pruessen is the Munk School’s Director for International Partnerships & Research and former Chair of the Department of History. His primary research and teaching interests are in 20th century U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Early work focused on the Cold War (e.g., John Foster Dulles: To the Threshold, 1888-1952), but attention to both transatlantic relations and U.S.-China tensions evolved toward the over-arching global perspectives of post-1945 U.S. policy makers as well as the historical roots of “globalization.”
Tim Sayle
Timothy Andrews Sayle is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program. He is the author of Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order (Cornell, 2019). He has co-edited two volumes: with Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq (Cornell, 2019); and with Susan Colbourn, The Nuclear North: Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age (University of British Columbia Press, 2020). His research on NATO, Canadian-American relations, and intelligence issues has been published in Canadian Military History, Cold War History, Intelligence & National Security, International Journal, International History Review, Historical Journal, International Politics, The Journal of Strategic Studies, and in several edited books.
Professor Sayle is a Senior Fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of the United States, and an associate of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He is a Fellow of Trinity College and alumnus of Massey College.
Graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Toronto have worked with Professor Sayle to build Canada Declassified, a web repository of recently declassified archival records. This project has been supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a Connaught New Research Award. Professor Sayle is a project leader of the Canadian Foreign Intelligence History Project.
Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, McMaster University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.
Nicholas Terpstra
Nicholas Terpstra is Provost and Vice Chancellor of Trinity College, and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He has held Visiting Professorships at Oxford, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Hebrew, and Monash Universities and at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, his primary area of research is early modern social history, exploring questions at the intersection of politics, gender, charity, and religion, and issues having to do with space and sense. Publications include Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation (Cambridge: 2015), Senses of Space in the Early Modern World (Cambridge: 2024), and the collection Lost and Found: Foundlings in the Early Modern World (Rome: 2023).
Terpstra also launched the DECIMA project, an on-line digital map of sixteenth century Florence. Employing early modern census data, DECIMA tracks occupation, gender, and wealth patterns in an expanding number of cities. The longer-term goal is to produce 3D recreations of urban space that function as research tools while also conveying what it was like to walk around the city, hearing its sounds, moving through its buildings, and seeing its artwork. See: N. Terpstra & C. Rose (eds), Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City. (Routledge, 2016).
