Stephen Connor
Associate Professor

Dr. Stephen Connor

Biography

Dr. Connor currently serves as the Regimental Historian for The Algonquin Regiment, Canadian Army.

Positions

Full-time Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Science - History and Indigenous Studies - History
Graduate Program Faculty
Graduate Studies - History, MA
Associate Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence
Faculty of Arts and Science

Education

PhD, History, Wilfrid Laurier University
2008.
MA, History, Wilfrid Laurier University
2000.
BA, History, University of Windsor
1994
Areas of specialization
International Military History
War and Popular Culture
History of Modern War
Occupation
State Violence

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Programs

  • History

Graduate Studies

  • History, MA

Graduate Supervision

Accepting Students for Supervision

School year

  • 2026/27
  • 2027/28
  • 2028/29

Guidelines or Expectations for Prospective Students

  • Prospective students (undergraduate and graduate/MA), please contact me directly by email.

Supervised Theses / Projects

  • Select Completed Major Research Papers (Primary Supervisor)
  • “Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Wexford engage in insurgency during the Irish War of Independence”
  • "The Algonquin Regiment and the Cold War Northern Ontario"
  • "Comic Strip Combatants: Enemy Images andSequential Art in the Vietnam Era."

Research

Research Interests

  • Representation of war and violence in popular culture (including comics and visual media)
  • Memory, commemoration, and historical narrative in post-conflict societies
  • State violence, propaganda, and the politics of historical interpretation
  • Simulation and gamification, with emphasis on conflict and atrocity in comparative historical perspective

Current Research Projects / Labs

  • Gaming and Conflict Simulation at the Centre for the Study of State Violence

Collaborations / Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of State Violence
  • Studies in Comics

Open to Media Inquiries

Publications

Books

Battlelines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914. Stephen Connor and Harriet E.H. Earle (eds.), Routledge, 2026

Chapters

“"So Put Down Your Books and Pick Up a Gun": American War Comics and the American Intervention in Vietnam, 1954-1973.” Battlelines Drawn, 2026.

“Victor Charles and Marvin the ARVN: Vietnamese as Enemy and Ally in American War Comic Books”. Drawing the Past. University of Mississippi Press, 2022.

“Frank Castle’s Other War: Meaning, Memory and the Vietnam War”. The Punisher: Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Essays on the Punisher. McFarlane, 2021.

"War and Terrorism". Routledge History of Global War and Society. Routledge, 2018.

“The National Police Field Force in the Republic of Vietnam”. Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization: Building Security in a Fractured World. Helion & Co., 2018.

Journal Articles

"The Things They Buried": Marvel Comics and the Vietnam War, 1962-2019. International Journal of Comic Art. 26(1): 3-28.

“Ordinary Enemies: Robert Kanigher, Garth Ennis, and the Myth of the Unblemished Wehrmacht". International Journal of Comic Art. 22(2): 180-212.

Bringing in the Harvest: The German Civil Administration and Occupation Management in Brest-Litovsk, 1942-1944.Global War Studies. 12(2): 6-33.