We’re pleased to announce that two Carleton History faculty were recognized by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at last week’s vin d’honneur for their commitment to teaching and research.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera and David Dean display their FASS Research and Teaching Awards.
Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship – Sonya Lipsett Rivera
FASS offers the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship to one of its outstanding faculty members, in order to facilitate the completion of a major research project that requires significant release time. Professor Lipsett-Rivera will take advantage of the fellowship to work on a monograph entitled The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico through the Dialogos Series of the University of New Mexico Press. Mexican men have been stereotypically associated with machismo—defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. Yet there is virtually no scholarly literature that examines the origins of Mexican masculinity. Her book will provide the first in-depth examination of early forms of Mexican masculinity and will expose some of the contradictions inherent in the stereotype of the Mexican macho. This book will become an important foundational source for gender studies in general but especially for the burgeoning field of masculinity studies.
She will offer a public presentation of her research in Winter 2016.
Research and Teaching Award – David Dean
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Awards are available to assist FASS faculty members in advancing a major piece of research. Professor Dean will focus on writing a monograph that addresses a key problem in the field of public history: the quest for authenticity in performing the past. He will be drawing extensively on his role as Company Historian to the National Art Centre’s English Theatre Company between 2008 and 2012.
David also received one of three FASS Teaching Awards in recognition of his commitment to pedagogical excellence.