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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Carleton had an impressive presence at the International Federation for Public History’s 7th world conference which was held in Luxembourg 3-6 September. Carleton’s PhD in Public History - the first in Canada - was very well represented in the conference’s poster session. Rebecca Friend spoke to “Capturing Childhood in Canadian Museums:... More
Monday, June 17, 2024
From June 17 to 21, at the Carleton University Fieldhouse, the community will come together to celebrate spring convocation. The ceremonies will honour more than 5,200 students as they receive their degrees. Below is the excerpt from Elizabeth Kane's article, "Inspiring Spring Graduates Look Back on Time at Carleton," with the full post available... More
Friday, April 19, 2024
Krenare Recaj, PhD Candidate, has written an article for Active History reflecting on her PhD training. An excerpt is included below with the full article, "Sadness, and sacrifice: A reflection on PhD training, comprehensive exams, and the discipline of history," available online. In the third year of my undergrad, I was sitting beside my... More
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Krenare Recaj, PhD Candidate, and History Professors Norman Hillmer and Laura Madokoro have been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for an upcoming conference titled "Memory, Politics, and Precedent: Canada and the Kosovar Refugee Diaspora 25 Years On". The conference will be held on 2 November 2024 at the University of Toronto and is being... More
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
PhD student Noë Bourdeau presented preliminary research findings from his dissertation at Professor Zoe Waxman's Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory, part of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Bourdeau's research bridges the fields of Holocaust studies and transgender studies to foreground the role of gender mutability across... More
Public History MA student Holly Benison has created a cooking show as part of her master's thesis project. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article by Alyssa Tremblay, "A Recipe for Research: Carleton Student Creates Canadian Culinary History Cooking Show," available online. From green corn patties to preserved apples, public... More
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Ph.D. student Tyla Betke has just had a paper published in the The Canadian Historical Review. The abstract is posted below while the full paper, "'Not a Shred of Evidence' :Settler Colonial Networks of Concealment and the Birtle Indian Residential School" is available online. Abstract This article examines how the network of settler colonial... More
Monday, December 18, 2023
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Krenare Recaj on the publication of her children’s book, “You Are Albanian” based in part on her doctoral research, which explores the history of the Kosovar Albanian refugee movement and diaspora. The book has garnered a great deal of media attention and been toasted by the Kosovar Consulate in Canada.... More
Friday, December 16, 2022
Chantal Brousseau (MA Student in History and Data Science) was featured in Popular Science magazine's recent special print edition on space exploration. She spoke to Popular Science about her work as a researcher, alongside History Prof. Shawn Graham, on the International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP)—the first-ever large-scale... More
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Karyn Pugliese, a history alumna (MA - June 2005), is now Executive Editor for Canada's National Observer. The profile text below is from the Canada's National Observer website. Karyn Pugliese is Executive Editor of Canada's National Observer and a member of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation in Ontario. She was Managing Editor of... More
Monday, June 20, 2022
In May, doctoral student Anna Kozlova visited Berlin to participate in the Young Atlantiks program, run by the Atlantik Brücke and Atlantik Brücke Canada, organizations committed to deepening relations between Germany and the US and Canada. Carleton is a member of Atlantik Brücke and represented by Dr. Teddy Samy, Director of NPSIA. Anna was... More
Thursday, June 9, 2022
With spring comes flowers, milder weather and the start of academic conference season. Fueled by a tremendous amount of volunteer labour, graduate student conferences in particular are invaluable spaces where early career scholars can learn about the latest ideas in their field and share their own work with peers from institutions across Canada... More
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