Tracey J. Kinney
B.A. (History and Political Science) and M.A. (History) University of Victoria, Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Tracey Kinney graduated with a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century German History from the University of British Columbia in 1997. Her research focuses on the Young German movement, looking in particular at the intersection between literature and political development during the “Vormärz” era.
Tracey has been a professor at Kwantlen since 1994. Her teaching areas include Modern German History, European History, as well as the History of World Civilizations and Twentieth Century World History. She has also been active in the development of Kwantlen’s B.A. degree programme, and remains a member of the Social Sciences Curriculum Committee where she has been serving time for fourteen years and counting. Her first edited collection, Conflict and Cooperation: Readings in Modern Global History was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. The second edition of C&C was released in 2010. Tracey is currently working on two projects: a co-publication, with William Keylor, of The Twentieth Century World, and a collection of primary documents on war and society.
Tracey’s outside interests include travel, cats, wine-making, and coffee not necessarily in that order.
Email: Tracey.Kinney@kwantlen.ca
Favourite Historical Books
- Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
- Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin
- Elie Wiesel – The Night Trilogy
- George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier
- Hans Fallada – Little Man, What Now?
- Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
- James Connor – Kepler’s Witch
- Mark Kurlansky – Salt: A World History
- Modris Eksteins – Rites of Spring
- Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
- Simon Winchester – The River at the Centre of the World
- Sinclair Lewis – Babbitt
'Must See' Historical Places/Things
- Chicago’s Art Deco Architecture
- Montreal’s Historic City Centre
- Berlin – every inch
- Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Centre
- Dubuque, Iowa – trust me
- Springfield, Illinois – “Land of Lincoln”
- Alsace – history, food, and wine
- Munich for Oktoberfest
