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Monday, November 18, 2024

Pamela Walker Talks About Reacting to the Past

History Professor Pamela Walker's use of game play in her courses has been featured in University World News. A short excerpt has been included below with the full article, "How games can teach students more history than lectures," by Nathan M. Greenfield, is available online. On 5 November 2024, his Majesty King Louis XVI’s... More

Monday, November 18, 2024

Rod Phillips talks on CBC about the decline of drinking

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed on the CBC Radio program, ‘The Cost of Living’, about the current decline in alcohol consumption.  He discussed some of the reasons younger people, in particular, are drinking less or not at all, and the reactions of the alcohol industry to the decline in consumption. You can hear the... More

Friday, November 8, 2024

Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at November Convocation

The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Adison Kathryn Lampert (Bachelor of Computer Science Honours with History minor) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement; Taylor Victoria Northwood (Bachelor of Arts Honours in Anthropology and History) for winning the Senate Medal for... More

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Jen Evans Wins DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies

Congratulations to History Professor Jen Evans for winning the DAAD/GSA Prize for her book, The Queer Art of History.  The DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies is funded through the North American office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), awarded annually by a GSA committee. The winner receives... More

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Carleton Public History at the 7th World Conference on Public History

Carleton had an impressive presence at the International Federation for Public History’s 7th world conference which was held in Luxembourg 3-6 September. Carleton’s PhD in Public History - the first in Canada - was very well represented in the conference’s poster session. Rebecca Friend spoke to “Capturing Childhood in Canadian Museums:... More

Thursday, September 19, 2024

David Dean Promoted to Distinguished Research Professor

David Dean has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Research Professor with graduate supervision status for a five year term. The promotion recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments and contributions of a retired full professor during their career who is undertaking significant ongoing research activities. Retired as of 1 July, David... More

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Jane Freeland wins 2022 book prize

Jane Freeland wins 2022 book prize for her Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002. Freeland's book, published with Oxford University Press, began its life as a university medal award-winning dissertation under the supervision of Jennifer Evans. Congratulations... More

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Rod Phillips heads to San Diego to talk about wine and art

Professor Rod Phillips will give his annual public lecture on wine and art at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California, on 18 August.  He’s been giving a lecture there in August since 2019, with time off for covid. The Timken is a private, free-admission gallery in Balboa Park that houses an... More

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer’s Book Reviewed in Hyperallergic

History Professor Shawn Graham and Adjunct Research Professor Damien Huffer have co-authored a new book, These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains, and Why It Matters (Berghahn Books, 2023), which was just reviewed by Erin L. Thompson for Hyperallergic. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Why Is... More

Friday, July 5, 2024

Rod Phillips talks about the LCBO strike

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by several media outlets on the eve and on the first day of the LCBO strike. He is a historian of alcohol and also a wine writer and commentator on alcohol policy. He discussed the background to the strike and pointed out that a key issue for the union... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Rod Phillips’s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy

Professor Rod Phillips’s latest book, Un curé dans les vignes (A Priest among the Vines), has just been published in France by Éditions Universitaires de Dijon.  It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod – they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Two Generations of Graduates Celebrating Together

On Friday, members of the History Department came out to proudly watch our undergraduate and graduate students cross the stage for convocation. It was an especially exciting time for one of our graduates, Mary Gunn! Not only did she win the University Medal, but she also crossed the stage that morning with her youngest... More

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