On June 30th, Jennifer Evans’s former PhD student Christine Whitehouse passed away, far too young, from breast cancer. It is an immense loss to the world, to her family and, most especially, to her 2yr old daughter Etta.
Christine was an accomplished student. She turned down a Commonwealth Trust fellowship to study here at Carleton. She received a SSHRC Bombardier Scholarship and was our program’s first recipient of the SSRC Berlin Program Fellowship for study in Berlin. She wrote her dissertation on Jewish refugee masculinity in Canada’s WWII era internment camps. It won best dissertation in German-Canadian History in 2017 – a national honour – something which surprised no one.
A chapter from her dissertation was published in 2020 in Civilian Internment in Canada. Histories and Legacies by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, which won the Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History Book.
Nova Scotia was always her home. She was thrilled when she and her lifelong partner Jeff bought a little house in Dartmouth so she could be closer to family. For the last four years, she worked as Research Grants Facilitator at Dalhousie University. She remained close with friends and former students she met in her program at Carleton, who remember her quick wit and bright smile.
Her obituary can be viewed online.