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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
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Professor Shawn Graham has co-authored a new publication with grad student Jaime Simmons. The piece, "Listening to Dura Europos: An Experiment in Archaeological Image Sonification", has just been published in Internet Archaeology (a leading open access journal for digital archaeology, computational archaeology). The work that led to this... More
Thursday, February 18, 2021
We are pleased to announce that Ona Bantjes-Ràfols, Danielle Mahon, Jaime Simons, and Sammy Holmes of this year’s MA cohort have been nominated for The DH Awards, under three separate categories - best use of DH for public engagement, best DH data visualization, and best DH Response to COVID-19! These projects emerged from their... More
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Following the completion of HIST 5210A with Professor Jennifer Evans, both graduate students and the professor take time to examine how power structures, learning, and communications have been affected through online learning in this pandemic-plagued year. A short excerpt is below with the full article, "Levelling the Playing Field: Humour in the... More
Thursday, November 26, 2020
This #GivingTuesday donate to bring Ottawa's history to life! On December 1st @carletonuniversity is supporting CapitalHistory.ca by doubling the impact of your donations dollar-for-dollar. With more than 35,000 people passing by each day this is one of the most dynamic ways residents and visitors can learn about little known and untold stories.... More
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