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Friday, January 17, 2020

Rod Phillips’s visits to French archive and wineries noted by local media

Professor Rod Phillips spent two weeks in the Bugey region of eastern France in December. He spent part of this time in the regional archive (Archives départementales de l’Ain), researching wine production and consumption during the French Revolution for a future book. Among his findings was an inventory of fine wines seized from the... More

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Jennifer Evans gives paper at American Historical Association on SSHRC research project

Jennifer Evans presented her work on Queering the Visual History of the Sexual Revolution on a panel examining the transnational history of sexuality in New York City in January 2020. This paper is part of her research together with Danielle Kinsey into the transatlantic pathways erotic photography travelled in the 1950s-1980s that formed part... More

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

David Dean Publishes an Article on “Living History”

Professor David Dean recently published a short article on "Living History" in the Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies (2019). Edited by Vanessa Agnew (who gave a 2015 Shannon Lecture on "Reenacting Genocide"), Jonathan Lamb and Juliane Tomann, the handbook provides the first published overview of significant concepts within reenactment... More

Monday, January 6, 2020

Jennifer Evans publishes article in the Washington Post

Jennifer Evans published an article in the Washington Post December 27th that explored the controversy surrounding a recent art collective's effort to chasten Germans for seeming to forget the lessons of the... More

Monday, January 6, 2020

Rod Phillips’s animated short on the history of alcohol attracted 250,000 views in the first 24 hours

Last year TED-Ed, a division of TED (Talks), invited Professor Rod Phillips to write the script of an animated short on the history of alcohol for their series of educational videos. The history of alcohol is one of his fields of research and he teaches a third-year course on it at Carleton. The script... More

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Documentary Film by Martha Attridge Bufton and David Dean has Film Debut at Carleton

The following excerpt is from the Carleton Newroom story by Joseph Mathieu. The full story, entitled "Carleton Screens Film on 1970s Push for Equality on Campus," can be found online. “This documentary was very much a labour of love,” says Carleton interdisciplinary studies librarian and historian, Martha Attridge Bufton. The 22-minute... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Chinnaiah Jangam Speaks at the CCIM’s Annual Event

Professor Chinnaiah Jangam was one of four guest speakers at the Canadian Council of Indian Muslim's 2nd Annual Event, Educated India, Elevate India on December 14, 2019. The CCIM is a not for profit organization that works to empower marginalized people through... More

Monday, December 16, 2019

Rod Phillips’s most recent book is well reviewed

Professor Rod Phillips' latest book, "Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink That Changed Our Lives" has just been reviewed in the American Association of Wine Economists. Below is a short excerpt from the review by Kevin Goldberg with the full review available on the AAWE website. Rod Phillips has been busy... More

Monday, December 9, 2019

Shawn Graham Publishes New Book

History Professor Shawn Grahan's new book Failing Gloriously and Other Essays has now been published by the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. A short excerpt is included below with more details and reviews online. Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university. Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s... More

Monday, December 9, 2019

Charlotte Gray Interviewed by John Reid

Following the publication of her book Murdered Midas, Adjunct Research Professor and Author Charlotte Gray sat down for an interview with John Reid for his blog, Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections. Access the interview... More

Friday, December 6, 2019

Norman Hillmer Formally Inducted Into Royal Society of Canada

The History Department is pleased to announce that Chancellor's Professor Norman Hillmer was formally inducted into the Royal Society of Canada during a ceremony held last month at Carleton University. A short excerpt from Carleton's Newsroom can be found below with the full article, "Carleton Co-Hosts and Shines in Annual Royal Society... More