Kari North
BA (UBC), MA (UofT), PhD (in Progress) (UofT)
Kari grew up in Richmond, the unceded and traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples. She spent her first two post-secondary years at Kwantlen (way back before it was a university!) before finishing her BA at UBC. From there, she studied medieval history as a graduate student at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean, with a special interest in diplomacy, state formation, and Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations. She has been lucky to travel extensively in Europe for archival research and is always happy to share old documents with any who might be interested!
She has taught a wide range of European history courses from the early medieval to the Cold War period. Her teaching interests include travel and the movement of people, objects, and ideas; inter-faith relations, colonialism and imperialism; revolutions and decolonization; and royal studies and diplomacy, among others.
When she's not working, Kari enjoys kayaking, playing board games with friends, and hanging out with animals- and she is always in the mood for a good cup of tea.
Courses taught
- HIST 1120: The Age of Barbarism: Europe 1900 to 1939
- HIST 1121: From Total War & Genocide to Coexistence: Europe since 1939
- HIST 1125: Origins of the Modern West: The Great Transformations
- HIST 1130: Empires in Arms: Twentieth Century World 1900-1945
- HIST 1131: Atom Bombs to the Internet: Twentieth Century World 1945-2000
- HIST 1190: Explorations in History
- HIST 2101: Europe in the Middle Ages
- HIST 2102: Europe 1450 to 1789
- HIST 2119: Europe 1789 to 1914
- HIST 3394: The Two World Wars
- HIST 4499: Selected Topics: Travelling & Travelers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe