2021 Balsillie Lecture: “War: How Conflict Shaped Us”

Professor Margaret MacMillan specializes in British imperial history and the international history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is an emeritus professor of international history at the University of Oxford and a professor of history at the University of Toronto. She was provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2007 and warden of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, from 2007 to 2017. She has taught modern history and international relations at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Oxford. Visiting appointments include the Humanitas Professor of War, Cambridge University, the Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She is also an honorary fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her publications include: Women of