Associate Professor

Graduate Coordinator

Academics

• Ph.D. University of Cambridge (2014)
• M.A. University of Windsor (2009)
• B.A. University of Windsor (2007)

Contact

Department of History
Memorial University
St. John’s, NL A1C 5S7
Email: jfantauzzo@mun.ca
Office: A-4014
Phone: (709) 864-2128

Research Interests

First World War; War and Society; Military History; the British Empire at War; Wartime Cultural Encounters; Modern Middle East, Medical History.

Research Record

My current research project investigates the long-term health complications of First World War British ex-servicemen who contracted malaria in Palestine, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Africa, the relationship between the scientific community and British policymakers, and how malaria affected ex-servicemen’s family life and their ability to find post-war work. This project will culminate with the book, The Great War Against Malaria: The British Empire, Disease, and the First World War. 

This project evolved out of my broader research on the First World War in the Middle East, Africa, and southeastern Europe, including my previous book, the The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which was long-listed for the British Military Book of the Year 2020.

Student Supervision

I am interested in supervising Undergraduate Honours Dissertations, MA students, and PhD students whose research focuses on the First World War, the British Empire, wartime cultural encounters, post-war memory and commemoration, and/or the experience of soldiers at war.

I have recently supervised projects on soldier photography in German East Africa during the First World War, French soldiers and malaria in First World War Macedonia, and British POWs and masculinity.

Recent Publications

Books

• The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Articles

• With Christopher Reid, ‘Local Defense, the British West Indies, and Recruitment in the First World War’, The Journal of Military History 88, 2 (April 2024): 330–66
• ‘Malaria Has Spoilt It’: Malaria, Neuropsychiatric Complications, and Insanity in ex-Servicemen in post-First World War Britain’, in Social History of Medicine 35, 4 (November 2022): 1267-84.