Archives: History

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Shawn Graham and Jaime Simmons Write Article for Internet Archaeology

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

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Rod Phillips awarded grant to study the French Revolution and wine

Professor Rod Phillips has been awarded a four-year SSHRC Insight Grant to study the impact of the French Revolution on France’s wine industry and culture.  He has written several books on the history of wine and while writing his history of French wine (published in 2016) he realized how important the Revolutionary period (1789-99)... More

Friday, July 16, 2021

Jennifer Evans Joins International Network to Conduct Research on Queer History and Sexualities in German-Speaking Europe

Jennifer Evans joins an international network based at the Free University of Berlin. The network, consisting of 20 scholars from the US, Canada, Germany, and the UK, will conduct research queer history and sexualities in German-speaking Europe, funded by a three-year grant from the German Research Foundation. The network will enhance the... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Rod Phillips interviewed on the New Books Network

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed on the New Books Network, a podcast that interviews authors of recently published books.  The book he discussed is French Wine: A History, which was published by the University of California Press in 2016, with the paperback edition appearing in 2020. The 60-minute interview ranged widely and you can... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Laura Madokoro Receives Early Researcher Awards Program Funding

Congratulations to Laura Madokoro, who has been awarded funding through the Ontario government’s prestigious Early Researcher Awards Program for her research project titled “Disaster Migration at Home and Abroad: A Transnational History of Canadian Relief Efforts (1900 - present).” Laura’s research program will explore the history of... More

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Michael Petrou Contributes Chapter on Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

Adjunct Research Professor Michael Petrou has written a chapter in the recently published "Armed Jews in the Americas". Professor Petrou is a well-respected historian and journalist who will be teaching for the History Department again in winter 2022. To learn more about this new publication, including Professor Petrou's chapter "'Our Fight Is Not... More

Monday, June 21, 2021

Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at June 2021 Convocation

The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Danka Davidovic (BA Combined Honours in Greek and Roman Studies and in History) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Undergraduate Level; Giovanni Jonathan Falcone (BA Honours in Political Science with History Minor) for winning the... More

Monday, June 21, 2021

Congratulations Class of 2021!

Congratulations to our 2021 graduates from all of us in the Department of History! We are so proud of what you have accomplished over the years, and especially during this challenging year. You have shown your strength, your perseverance, your wisdom, your versatility, and we couldn’t be more proud to call you Carleton alumni.... More

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Laura Madokoro and Team Awarded ECampus Ontario Grant to Develop New Course

History Professor Laura Madokoro is part of a project team, led by Dr. Asha Varadharajan at Queen’s University, that has been awarded a $90,000 grant from ECampus Ontario to develop an online course titled Race, Migration and the Canadian Nation. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the six course modules will draw from the expertise of... More

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Patrizia Gentile’s Book Nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History

Patrizia Gentile‘s book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. Congratulations Professor Gentile! The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the... More

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Laura Madokoro is the 2020-21 Winner of the The Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award

History Professor Laura Madokoro has received The Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for her article, “’From Citizens to Refugees’: Japanese Canadians and the Search for Wartime Sanctuary,” which appeared in the Journal of American Ethnic History in 2020.Congratulations Professor... More

Friday, May 14, 2021

Activist in Residence Interview: Professor Chinnaiah Jangam

History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam has participated in an interview series that is being hosted by the Department of Law and Legal Studies.  The interview is part of a series of interviews of human rights activists that is being developed as part of the Law Department's Activist in Residence (AiR) program.  More details about this... More

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