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Thursday, October 18, 2018
Public History visits the Theatre! Give a quick listen to history grad student Rick Duthie's interview on CBC’s radio show Morning North in Sudbury. It aired the morning of a second staged reading performance of his play Sudbury Strike Stories on 15 October 2018. It includes a brief chat with him about his dissertation... More
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Dany Guay-Bélanger, currently in the second year of his MA in Public History, is working with the Canada Science and Technology Museum on its collection of video games going back to the 1980s. The problem, for Dany, is that many of these games are no longer able to be played – the cartridges have... More
Friday, August 18, 2017
Ph.D. candidate Stuart MacKay has had an article published in iPolitics about Confederate statues and historical memory. Below is a short excerpt with the full article, "Those Confederate monuments are built on racist lies. Tear them down" available online. Despite Lincoln’s victory, Americans have always had a peculiar sort of amnesia when it... More
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Between June 4-9, the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) held its 4th Annual Conference at the University of Bologna's campus in Ravenna, Italy. The History Department was one of the official sponsors of the conference, which was held alongside the 1st national meeting of the newly founded Associazione Italiana di Public History.... More
Monday, June 5, 2017
The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Corbin James Williams (BA Honours in History) for winning the University Medal in Arts at the Undergraduate Level; Siobhán B. Dundon (BA Combined Honours in History and Political Science) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the... More
Friday, June 2, 2017
The History Department congratulates Sandy Barron, a PhD candidate in History, who won the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Award worth $150,000 over three years. The Vanier is designed to attract and retain world-class PhD students. It is awarded to individuals with both strong leadership skills and very high academic achievement. Barron will... More
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
PhD candidate in History, Sandy Barron, had his research on Disability History in Canada featured in the Current Grad Students news feature on the Carleton Graduate Studies website. Below is a short excerpt of the article by Mitch Jackson entitled "Grad Research: Disability History in Canada". The full article is available online. PhD Student... More
Thursday, March 2, 2017
The 23rd Underhill Graduate Colloquium is around the corner, and Carleton’s Department of History is delighted to welcome student presenters from across Canada to the National Capital. Taking place from March 9-11, 2017, the theme for this year’s conference is “Revealing the Past.” It will be the site of numerous student presentations that... More
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
History student Phoebe Mannell has been selected as the Garth Wilson Memorial Fellow in Public History. Below is an excerpt from the full article on the Carleton Newsroom page. Ms. Mannell, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Public History at Carleton, will focus her research on the challenges and opportunities involved in curating... More
Thursday, October 6, 2016
This post originally appeared on the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs site. Pitcher Melissa Armstrong, a Ph.D. History student at Carleton University, helped Canada win the silver medal at the World Baseball Confederation’s World Cup in Gijang City, Korea. Armstrong pitched 5.2 innings in three games, posted a 2.47 ERA and had a... More
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
The text below is from the article by Lin Moody entitled "The Whys and Wherefores of the Beechwood Mausoleum" article on the FGPA Grad Student Research page. About nine years ago, Dorothy J Smith toured Beechwood Cemetery as part of an undergraduate Carleton course on Gravestones and Cemeteries: Cultures of Death and Memorialization. She... More
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Ian Wereley, Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, has just published an article in Humanities entitled "Extracting the Past from the Present: Exotic Prizes, Empty Wilderness, and Commercial Conquest in Two Oil Company Advertisements, 1925–2012". Earlier this year, Ian was also selected as a top finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers Research... More
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