Dan Healey
In March of 1974 Dan Healey was a student member of BCI teacher John Ballachey’s school trip to the USSR. This trip proved pivotal and set Mr. Healey on a lifelong interest in Russia, its people and history.
Professor Dan Healey currently teaches Modern Russian History at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, a position he has held since 2013. Prior to his appointment at Oxford, Professor Healy taught at both Reading and Swansea Universities.
Dan Healey attended Brockville Collegiate Institute from 1971 to 1975. During his time at BCI Mr. Healey was heavily involved in the school’s Theater Arts program which he credits with helping him develop a cultural education. Following high school Mr. Healey earned a Bachelor of Arts (1981), Russian Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. Subsequent to this he went on to earn a MA (1993) Soviet Area Studies at the University of London then a MA (1993) History from the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in 1998 in History also at the University of Toronto.
Professor Healey has an ongoing interest in LGBT issues. He was chair of Gays at the University of Toronto from 1979 to 1981. He was a volunteer on the Right to Privacy Committee, Toronto from 1981 to 1983 and a member of the Sexual Diversity Studies Minor Committee also at the University of Toronto. LGBT issues have also been a focus of Professor Healey’s academic work and his many publications and he continues to do community outreach work in this area.