Tracey J. Kinney
BA (UVIC), MA (UVIC), PhD (UBC)Tracey is an immigrant to Canada and was the first person in her family to attend university. She hails from Manchester (City, never United so don't ask) and remains a northerner at heart.
She graduated with a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century German History from the University of British Columbia in the before times. Her research focused on the Young German movement, looking in particular at the intersection between literature, censorship, and political development in the period before the 1848 revolution. Her Ph.D. dissertation is entitled, “Challenging the Myth of ‘Young Germany’: Conflict & Consensus in the Works of Karl Gutzkow, Heinrich Laube, Theodor Mundt, and Ludolf Wienbarg”. Her minor fields included late-Qing China and the social and cultural history of the interwar United States. Tracey is also a proud alumna of the University of Victoria where she completed a B.A. with a double major in History and Political Science, and an M.A. focusing on the historiography of the Holocaust.
Her teaching areas include Modern German History, the Holocaust, and Twentieth Century World History. In recent years Tracey's teaching interests have expanded into such topics as the role of textile production in global history, 20th Century terrorism, and, most recently, food in history.
Random Favourite Things
Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation
Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilization
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton
Ben Aaronovitch, The Peter Grant Rivers of London series
Courses taught
- ARTS 4800: Arts Practicum
- HIST 1121: From Total War & Genocide to Coexistence: Europe since 1939
- HIST1130/1131: Empires in Arms/From the Atomic Bomb to the Internet
- HIST 2101: Medieval Europe
- HIST 2102: Europe 1450 to 1789
- HIST 2300: Introduction to World Civilizations
- HIST 2302: Consuming Passions: Food in Global History
- HIST 2306: Pandemics & Disease in History: Soul Loss, Miasma, and Wayward Qi
- HIST 2335: War in the Modern World
- HIST 3310: The Fibre of Society: Textiles in Global History
- HIST 3331: Twentieth Century Germany
- HIST 3397: Guerillas in the Mist: Terrorism in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 4400: Applications of History
- HIST 4430: The Holocaust in History
- HIST 4480: The Vietnam War in Historical Experience
- RECENT TOPICS COURSES
- HIST 4499: Society and Culture in the Weimar Republic
- HIST 4499: Global History of Food
- HIST 1190: Pandemics in History (Fall 2020)
Areas of Interest
Outside of KPU Tracey can be found wandering near the ocean - safely distanced of course, enjoying good food, drinking coffee, wine, and good Scotch, and obsessing endlessly over the exploits of her very spoiled, very chonky cat, Mac