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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Melissa Armstrong Publishes New Book: An Ambulance on Safari

Hot off the press! An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile, the first medical and political history of emergency health care services for MK cadres, South Africans in exile, and local patients in numerous ANC bases in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1990. This important... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Dominique Marshall’s Efforts to Increase Accessibility Result in Contactless Elevator in Paterson Hall

Thanks in part to the collaborative efforts of History Professor Dominique Marshall, a co-primary investigator in Carleton University’s Disability Research Group, the elevator in Paterson Hall is now more accessible to all users. While a short excerpt has been included below, you can read about the full process from conception to completion in... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Monica Patterson Writes About Children’s Museology

Associate Professor Monica Patterson (Cross-Appointed with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the History Department) has written an article for the American Alliance of Museums detailing how the current pandemic has affected museums and how a new children's museology is emerging as a result. A short excerpt is included below, with the... More

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Michael Petrou named Editor-in-Chief of Open Canada

The Canadian International Council (CIC) is pleased to welcome Michael Petrou as Editor-in-Chief of Open Canada starting today. Originally launched by the CIC in 2011, Open Canada has become an award-winning, highly influential digital publication with the mission of engaging everyday Canadians in national conversations on global affairs. Under... More

Monday, September 21, 2020

Charlotte Gray Announced as Finalist in 2020 Ottawa Book Awards

The History Department would like to congratulate Adjunct Research Professor Charlotte Gray for being named one of the finalists in this year's non-fiction category of the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Finalists announced for 2020 Ottawa Book Awards" by Lynn Saxberg of the Ottawa... More

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Ian Wereley is New Executive Director of CASG

The following text is from the announcement put out by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CASG). The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ian Wereley as Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. He takes over the position recently vacated by Sally Rutherford, who retired at... More

Friday, September 11, 2020

Jennifer Evans Named as Recipient of SSRC Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowships

Professor Jennifer Evans has just been named as one of the recipients of the Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowship program for her project entitled "Historical Analogy, Covid-19, and the 2020 US Election: How Historical Misinformation Undermines Democratic Institutions". Project Abstract Understanding how history is used and abused is... More

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Laura Madokoro Named to the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

The History Department is proud to announce that Professor Laura Madokoro has just been named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. A short excerpt of the announcement is posted below with the full article, "Two Carleton University Researchers Named to the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists... More

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

History Alumni Publish New Books

The History Department is pleased to announce that two of our recent graduate students have completed books for publication. Dr. Melissa Armstrong graduated from Carleton with a PhD in history in 2017. She has just recently published a historical monograph called An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department... More

Friday, August 28, 2020

Erica Fraser gives podcast interview about her book

History Professor Erica Fraser sat down (virtually) with podcaster Sean Guillory over the summer to talk about her new book, Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Dr. Guillory's SRB Podcast is influential in the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies as well as being... More

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer Publish Paper on Discerning Sources of Supply within the Human Remains Trade

History Professor Shawn Graham, along with three of his colleagues, have published a paper in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA). The full article, "Towards a Method for Discerning Sources of Supply within the Human Remains Trade via Patterns of Visual Dissimilarity and Computer Vision" by Professors Shawn Graham (History... More

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

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