2015 - Dr. Julia Torrie

Department of History
BA (Huron University College), AM, PHD (Harvard)

Dr. Julia Torrie has established a reputation as an important scholar in modern European history. Her research focuses on the transnational social and cultural history of Germany and France during World War II, particularly as it relates to war and occupation. Her study “For Their Own Good”: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945 is the first comparative study of civilian evacuations in the two countries during World War II and demonstrates the complexities of an assumed all powerful Nazi state by showing that citizen objections to evacuations forced changes in policy.

Torrie has delivered many conference presentations and invited talks in Canada, the United States and Europe, and currently has book chapters that explore German documentary photography and protest in Hitler’s national community accepted for publication.