Congratulations to Historians Marc Saurette, Beth Robertson, and Norman Hillmer for their 2018 Achievement Awards
The recipients of the 2018 Achievement Awards were celebrated at an on-campus reception April 17. The awards are bestowed each year in recognition of the excellence of our faculty members, instructors and librarians. This year there were three members of the History Department among the winners:
2018 Research Achievement Awards
The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence. The recipients’ terms run from May to April.
- Norman Hillmer, Department History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Project: Canada and Peacekeeping: A Contradictory History
The blue beret of the United Nations peacekeeper is a familiar sight around the world, but peacekeeping seems to Canadians especially their own. Canadians believe, with some justice, that they invented the practice, so much so that peacekeeping has become crucial to the way in which Canada sees itself. Employing the frameworks of nationalism and national identity, conflict studies, and civil-military relations, Dr. Hillmer’s research aims at the first comprehensive account of Canadian peacekeeping.
To see a list of all the 2018 Research Achievement Award winners, please click here.
2018 Teaching Achievement Awards
The Teaching Achievement Awards for faculty and instructor employees are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic). The purpose of these awards is to recognize and enhance excellence in teaching for faculty and instructor employees and to provide financial support for the development of an innovative teaching project at Carleton University.
- Marc Saurette, Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Project: Using Medieval Manuscripts in Teaching Archival Digitization
This project has two goals: firstly, to develop a hands-on seminar teaching undergraduate and graduate students the practical skills and issues of digitizing archival material and, secondly, to establish a pilot project (proof of concept) for an on-going digitization effort here at Carleton. By engaging in a real-life digitization project of our two medieval manuscripts, this class will teach students the standard practices for setting up an online archive, populating it with content, and ensuring its accessibility. In future years, non-medieval material would form the basis of the class, allowing more unique texts from the ARC collection to be made accessible to scholars and the community.
2018 Professional Achievement Awards
The Professional Achievement Awards for librarians and instructor employees are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding professional achievements at Carleton University for professional librarians and instructor employees.
- Beth A. Robertson, Instructor I, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Beth A. Robertson is an Instructor in the Department of History. Her scholarly research explores the margins of science, technology and medicine, and most recently the historical intersections between technology and disability in transnational Cold War Canada. Her professional award will be dedicated to fostering collaboration between faculty, staff and students across the Humanities and STEM fields through the creation of a multidisciplinary group she hopes to establish called Technology and Engineering in Collaboration with Health, History and Social Sciences (TECHHSS). The primary focus of TECHHSS will be on creating more inclusive and accessible spaces of learning by thinking through systemic barriers to education and coming up with practical and engaging solutions to be implemented within the classroom.
To see a list of all the 2018 winners of the Teaching, Professional, and Contract Instructor Achievement Awards and Grant, please click here.