Last month, members of the Management Team of the Public History Program accepted the 2016 Carleton University Building Connections Award. The Building Connections Award was designed to recognize an individual or a team who has made an outstanding contribution through a history of achieving exceptional success in building relationships and connections, which have had a sustained impact both over time and across research programs.
This innovative two-year program combines traditional academic strengths in historical theory, historiography, and primary research, with specialized courses on topics related to history in the public sphere (ranging from museums and archival theory to oral history and photography). Many members of the Department of History are actively engaged in various aspects of public history, public memory, and historical representation. Our faculty have attracted a wide range of external grants to carry out research in the field of public history, funds which often lead to further support for public history students.
Our program also benefits from the presence of the Carleton Centre for Public History, a university research centre that encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue on public history and cultural memory, building bridges between faculty, graduate students, and the wider community of public historians.
The management team honoured at the Vice-President’s Passion for Research Luncheon included History professors John Walsh, David Dean, Paul Litt, James Opp, Shawn Graham, Bruce Elliott, Jean-Pierre Morin, Del Muise, and Carman Bickerton.