Ian Wereley, alumnus and contract instructor in the Department of History, has been featured in an interview entitled “A Dozen Years at Carleton Studying History and Oil: An Interview with Ian Wereley, who parlayed his three Carleton degrees into a successful and unique career“. A short excerpt is included below with the full article available on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences website.
Ian Wereley went the distance with his post-secondary schooling, and he did it all in the Department of History at Carleton University.
In 2018, he completed his Ph.D. having taken the less than traditional route of completing all three of his degrees in the same department at the same University.
He adored his home department, so the notion of leaving Carleton never felt like an appropriate option. Rather, he spent 12 very productive years studying, writing, researching, and collaborating with his peers and mentors in History. During this time, Wereley focused his academic study on the history of energy. His Master’s thesis examined the global social consequences and implications of Britain’s transition from coal to oil during the early twentieth century. For his Ph.D., he continued within this area of scholarship by analyzing the socio-cultural impacts of petroleum. His dissertation Imagining the Age of Oil: Case Studies in British Petrocultures, 1865-1935 was nominated for a Senate Medal and a 2016 Graduate Research and Innovating Thinking Award.