Dr. Michael Petrou

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Email: michael.petrou@hotmail.com

Michael Petrou is Historian, Veterans’ Experience, at the Canadian War Museum. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent, reporting from across the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia. Petrou has won three National Magazine Awards and the Ottawa Book Award. He was the 2017-18 Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is currently an adjunct research professor in the Department of History and the School of Journalism at Carleton University. Petrou has a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford and a master’s in Atlantic Canada studies from Saint Mary’s University, where he was a graduate research fellow at the Gorsebrook Research Institute.