Archives: History

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Dr Jeff Sahadeo’s Voices from the Soviet Edge wins major book prize

The History Department wishes to congratulate Dr Jeff Sahadeo, Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a valued member of our community, on being awarded the 2020 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Book Prize in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his book Voices from the Soviet Edge... More

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Jennifer Evans and Team Create New Digital Repository

This summer, Jennifer Evans helped shepherd into being the German Studies Collaboratory, a repository of online resources for use in research and teaching. The Collaboratory includes links to webinars and talks, library and archive digital collections, film, podcasts, and video. A teaching section provides colleagues with assignment ideas and... More

Monday, July 27, 2020

David Dean and Daniel McNeil Publish New Book co-edited with Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa

Yana Meerzon, David Dean, and Daniel McNeil have co-edited a new collection of essays, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture with Palgrave. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Jacob Kovalio Talks About the Human Rights Situation of Uyghurs

History Professor Jacob Kovalio, weighed in on the treatment of the Uyghurs in China, following a House of Commons discussion of the situation in Xinjiang. The full article, "Uyghur Victims Narrate About Chinese Atrocities to House of Commons of Canada" is available online with a short excerpt included below. The House of Commons of... More

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Shawn Graham’s New Book is Now Available

History Professor and Digital Historian, Shawn Graham, has a new book out: "An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence". About the book The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

History Professors Share SSHRC Insight Grant Win for “Hate 3.0”

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRHC) announced the results of the October 2019 Insight Grants funding competition. Included among Carleton’s winners was an award of $371,359 for "Hate 3.0: Memory, Populism, and Misinformation in the Canadian Social Mediascape." This project, led by Principle Investigator and... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Rod Phillips writes script for TED-Ed animated video on Prohibition

Professor Rod Phillips, who teaches a course of the history of alcohol, has written the script for a TED-Ed animated short on Prohibition.  You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BDnlUQ3CA Writing the script involved working with TED-Ed editors and the animators.  The animation, which evokes the atmosphere of the twenties and... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Daniel McNeil Talks to the Ottawa Citizen About Creating an “Anti-Racist University”

History Professor Daniel McNeil is one of the drafters of a letter that offers concrete and material proposals to help redress the legacies of systemic anti-Black racism in our community. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "Profs, alumni urge Carleton to accept eight commitments to build 'anti-racist university,'" available... More

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Chinnaiah Jangam Writes About P.V. Narasimha Rao

Associate History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam has written an opinion piece for The Wire. While a short excerpt is included below, you can read the full article, "From Communalism to Privatisation, P.V. Narasimha Rao Was New India's Architect-in-Chief," online. All over the world, there is an uproar against the monuments erected to people whose... More

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Colleagues Mourn the Loss of Greg Donaghy, Ph.D. (1961-2020)

Greg Donaghy, Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History and a prolific historian of Canada's foreign relations, passed away on the first of July. Greg served as the Director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, after retiring as the Head of the Historical Section at... More

Monday, July 6, 2020

Rod Phillips participates in virtual conference on French history

Professor Rod Phillips presented a paper in a virtual conference that was initially planned to be held in New Zealand in early July.  Titled “France and Beyond: The Global World of the Ngāti Wīwī (the French),” this was a joint conference of the Society for French Historical Studies (US) and the George Rudé Seminar... More

Friday, July 3, 2020

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer Discuss Motivations for Buying Human Remains

As part of an article by Owen Jarus for Live Science, members of the History Department, Professor Shawn Graham and Dr. Damien Huffer, explain what drives collectors of human remains. A short excerpt is below, with the full article "Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook" available online.... More

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