Y. Aleksandra Bennett
Degrees: | B.A. (Windsor), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (McMaster) |
Email: | aleksandra_bennett@carleton.ca |
Research Interests
- Conflicts and dilemmas arising from moral, humanitarian, and conscience questions posed by the wars of 20th century Europe
- 20th century international history, especially 1890-1945
- War and society in Britain, 1890-1956
Honours and Awards
2005 Finalist for the Capital Educator’s Award
2002 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award
Select Publications
Kiss the kids for dad; don’t forget to write: the wartime letters of George Timmins, 1916-1918, (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2009)
“Introduction” to Vera Brittain, One Voice, Pacifist Writings from the Second World War, (London, Continuum Books, 2005), xiii-xxvii.
Recent Graduate Supervisions
Aaron A. Robinson, “The Constraints of Prestige: British Foreign Policy and the War Debt Question, 1917-1923,” MA research essay (2003).