As many of you know, Professor Norman Hillmer is an inspiring and dedicated educator who has spent many years in the History Department pushing us to be the best scholars and historians we can be. Throughout his amazingly productive academic career, during which he has published 31 authored or edited books, Prof. Hillmer has remained deeply committed to teaching at all undergraduate and graduate levels, from the first-year Canadian history course he regularly teaches to the 55 MA and 16 doctoral students whose theses he has supervised. As Professor Hillmer noted at an event to honour his appointment to the Order of Canada, teaching has been his life’s mission. Over the course of his twenty-seven years at Carleton, he has won every teaching award the university offers, including the Graduate Mentoring Award in 2010, the award’s inaugural year.
In honour of Prof. Hillmer, his family has established the Norman Hillmer Doctoral Scholarship. Once established, this scholarship will serve to recognize the exceptional achievement of future generations of promising historians, in perpetuity. As part of the award each recipient will be offered the opportunity to present part of his/her research at a lecture organized by the Department of History.
Will you join us in supporting Prof. Hillmer’s efforts to support future historians? Our goal is to raise $50,000 to create a permanently endowed graduate scholarship that will celebrate Professor Hillmer’s legacy and benefit a deserving doctoral student in the Department of History every two years.
Today, November 28, is Giving Tuesday, when individual donations will be tripled by the University. After today, donations will be single-matched by the university until December 31, up to a total of $50,000.
To learn more about the scholarship and make a donation, please click on the following link: https://futurefunder.carleton.ca/project/norman-hillmer-doctoral-award-history/