Dr. Graham Broad

Department Chair / Coordinator King's Scholar and Foundations Year/Associate Professor

Phone: 4462
Email: gbroad@uwo.ca

Education

• PhD - University of Western Ontario, 2008

Teaching

A recipient of the King's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020), Prof. Broad teaches war and society studies, historical theory and methods, and in the Foundations program at King’s. He is also a guide with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation.

• History 1820F: The History of Now
• History 1901E: Foundations in History
• History 2172B: The History of Sport
• History 2800F/G: The Practice and Profession of History
• History 2808F/G: The Philosophy of History
• History 3710/4710 F/G: The World Wars in History, Memory and Reconciliation
• History 3792/2791E: Patterns and Perspectives in Global Military History
• History 3801E: The Historian's Craft

Research

Prof. Broad has been a member of the department of history at King’s since 2009. He is a scholar in the field of war and society studies, studying culture in times of conflict. He is the author of A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front 1939-1945 (UBC Press, 2013, shortlisted for the CP Stacey Award); One in a Thousand: the Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay Royal Flying Corps (UTP, 2017); and Part of Life Itself: the War Diary of Leslie H. Miller, CEF (UTP, 2022).

With Jonathan Vance he is the co-director of the SSHRC-funded website Wartime Canada, a digital archive of Canadian wartime ephemera.

Selected Publications

Books

Part of Life Itself: the War Diary of Leslie H. Miller, CEF (University of Toronto, 2022).

One in a Thousand: the Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay Royal Flying Corps (University of Toronto Press, 2017).

A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013).

(With Matthew Rankin) Canada: A Country of Change (Winnipeg: Portage and Main Press, 2008). Also published as Le Canada, un pays de changements – de 1867 à nos jours, translated by Michel Arsenault (2009).

Selected chapters and Articles

“Canada: Limited Liability and Total War” in The Routledge History of the Second World War edited by Paul R. Bartrop. New York: Routledge, 2021.

“The View from Above: a Canadian Pilot in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette” in Portraits of Battle: Courage Grief and Strength in Canada’s Great War edited by Peter Farrugia and Evan J. Habkirk. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021.

“Shopping to Win the War: Female Consumers and Canada’s Home Front” in Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the Second World War edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020.

“Guns and Butter: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945” in Behind the Lines: Canada’s Home Front during the First and Second World War London: Western University, 2018.

Painters Eleven: Canada's Wild Ones by Iris Newell. In The Canadian Journal of Art History, Vol. XXXI (2) 2011.

"Eddie and Us: Lessons Learned in a Class Project to Commemorate a Fallen Soldier of the Great War." In Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 36 (1) Spring 2011.