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Monday, May 30, 2016
Freeland did her doctoral work under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Evans, and her dissertation, "Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence, Citizenship and State-Making in Divided Berlin, 1969-1990," is available on Carleton's CURVE repository. As Freeland explains in her abstract, her dissertation is one of the first in depth historical... More
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) today announced that Carleton’s Ian Wereley is among the top five finalists in its 2016 Storytellers challenge. Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called Imagining Energy in Transition:... More
Friday, April 22, 2016
https://youtu.be/CEb-8oeohPI The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) at the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton is documenting and preserving the testimonies of Ottawa Holocaust survivors to allow future generations to hear and see the people who experienced and witnessed the genocidal policies and crimes of the... More
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
https://youtu.be/LLVhgsPbLHc The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced that Carleton’s Ian Wereley is among the Top 25 finalists in its 2016 Storytellers challenge. Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called Imagining... More
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
“Mary Ann Shadd Revisited: Echoes from an Old House” is going to be launched on the Heritage Toronto website as a part of their programming for International Women’s Day on Tuesday March 8. The documentary was the central component of Smith's major research paper for her MA in Public History. The film is about... More
Monday, February 29, 2016
It’s February 26, 2016. The ghosts of Robert McCaffrey and Maria Spearman argue before the heavy iron doors of the gallows. Love unrequited and families ruptured. Silence punctuated by the sound of gunfire. A woman half remembered. An unborn child, lost to memory. Throughout, the audience of this necromantic drama fade in and out... More
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Several Carleton alumni and grad students worked on the Canadian War Museum's new exhibit, "World War Women." The exhibit historian, Dr. Stacey Barker, completed her BA and MA at Carleton. Laura Brown, who received her MA here in 2013, Dr. Laura Brandon, who completed her doctorate in History at Carleton, and Sarah Hogenbirk, who is... More
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Carleton University students have produced a digital timeline of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences from its beginnings in 1938 to the present. Their timeline has been posted on the Federation website to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Fourth-year undergraduate student Andrew Narraway says that the practicum provided him with... More
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
As part of the the three-day workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime,” held by Migration and Diaspora Studies from September 23-25, graduate students were invited to participate in a master class with preeminent historian of refugees Dr. Gil Loescher. Loescher has been a pioneer in the study of the relationship between... More
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Carleton History will have a terrific presence at the Active History Conference taking place at Huron College, London, Ontario this weekend (October 2-4, 2015). John Walsh and our visiting fellow Jean-Pierre Morin will be addressing the future of Public History programmes, while John will also speak about student learning and Jean-Pierre on... More
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Chironda's research focuses on the history of international migration and refugee protection policy since the end of the Second World War. She is particularly looking at African refugees. “Government policies and programs affect and define people’s lives and my goal is to contribute towards producing knowledge which puts “people” at the... More
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Allison Smith, who recently graduated with her Master’s in Public History, submitted a Master’s research project that comprised a 30-minute historical documentary film and a short reflexive essay. Her film is about a collection of letters to and from African American abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd between 1851 and 1863 – years that she lived... More
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