Dr. Michael Stevenson
- PhD in History, University of Western Ontario, 1996
- MA in History, Laurentian University, 1992
- BA (Hons), Laurentian University, 1990
Before joining Lakehead's faculty in 2011, Dr. Stevenson worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, McMaster University, and York University's Schulich School of Business.
Dr. Stevenson specializes in Canadian diplomatic and military history. He has edited or co-edited four volumes in the Documents on Canadian External Relations series covering the foreign policy of John Diefenbaker’s government, and he is currently writing (with Eric J. Bergbusch) a biography of Howard Green, Canada’s Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1959 to 1963. In military history, he has published Canada’s Greatest Wartime Muddle: National Selective Service and the Mobilization of Human Resources during World War II (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001).
Dr. Stevenson is also an editor with the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell project based at McMaster University. He co-edited (with Andrew Bone) Volume 21, How to Keep the Peace: The Pacifist Dilemma, 1935-1938 (Routledge, 2008), and he is presently working on Volumes 17, 22, and 23 covering Russell’s life and writings from 1923 to 1927 and from 1938 to 1944.