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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

2021 Marston LaFrance Fellowship Lecture with Mark Anderson on March 16, 2021

Please join us for the 2021 Marston LaFrance Lecture to be delivered online on Tuesday, March 16th from 2:00-3:30PM. Our 2020-2021 Fellowship winner, Dr. Mark Anderson (History), will present a lecture titled “Zombies and the Death of Certainty in the Land of Perennial Rebirth." For more details about the lecture, the Marston LaFrance Research... More

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Daniel McNeil talks to the Carleton Newsroom about Black History and Anti-Racist Futures

The Carleton Newsroom has published a profile piece on Professor Daniel McNeil which includes details on his courses as well as his research and his approach to anti-racist education and community-building practices. Below is a short excerpt with the full article, “Celebrating Black History Month: Carleton’s Daniel McNeil Focuses on New... More

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Congratulations Tanya Schwartz for Winning a 2020 Service Excellence Award

We are pleased to announce that the History Department’s Undergraduate Administrator, Tanya Schwartz, has been named one of the winners of the 2020 Carleton University Service Excellence Award in the Individual category. Congratulations Tanya! The Service Excellence Awards are presented every year to recognize the outstanding contribution that... More

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Four History MA Students Nominated for The DH Awards

We are pleased to announce that Ona Bantjes-Ràfols, Danielle Mahon, Jaime Simons, and Sammy Holmes of this year’s MA cohort have been nominated for The DH Awards, under three separate categories - best use of DH for public engagement, best DH data visualization, and best DH Response to COVID-19! These projects emerged from their... More

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Sean Eedy’s New Book “Four-Color Communism” to be Published February 2021

Contract Instructor and Carleton History alumnus Dr. Sean Eedy has a new book coming out this month: Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic. (Berghahn Books, February 2021). About the Book As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state.... More

Friday, February 5, 2021

Jennifer Evans Discusses Violent Events at the US Capitol

History Professor Jennifer Evans took part in a roundtable at the Max Kade German-American Center at Indiana University to discuss the violent events of January 6th and their meaning from the perspective of German political scientists, historians, digital humanists, and critical media studies. In it, she showcased some of the early stage research... More

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Wins 2020 Elena Martinez Prize

The following is a short excerpt from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences website. The full story, "History Professor Wins Prize for Best Book in Mexican History," can be found online. Congratulations to Professor Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Department of History) for winning the prestigious 2020 María Elena Martínez Prize for best book in Mexican... More

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Chinnaiah Jangam’s New Book Translated into Telugu

Congratulations to History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam, whose latest book, Dalits and the Making of Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2017), has just been translated into Telugu. The publisher for the translated volume is a renowned Telugu publisher, Hyderabad Book Trust. There will be a book launch event over zoom on Saturday, February 13,... More

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Daniel McNeil Examines Biden’s Call to Restore the Soul of America

Below is a short excerpt from History Professor Daniel McNeil's article in The Conversation following Biden's inauguration speech. The full article, "Post-Inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden's America must be truly inclusive," can be found online. Over the past few months, I’ve been editing a book about soulful beliefs, practices and... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Chinnaiah Jangam’s Book Included on List of Recommended Texts on Dalit Writing

The following short excerpt describes why History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam's latest book is included among the top twelve must-read texts on Dalits. The full article by Suraj Yengde, "Twelve books that form part of the arsenal of Dalit writing," can be found online. One of the solid arsenals produced by the Dalit community, apart... More

Monday, January 11, 2021

The History Department Mourns the Loss of John Bellamy (1930-2020)

The department was saddened to hear of the passing, on December 16, of our colleague John Bellamy. John was a member of the department from 1968 to 1996. John was one of the leading scholars engaged in the rewriting of the history of late medieval and early modern English criminal law in the 1970s.... More

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Andrew Johnston Speaks to CBC Following the Georgia Runoff Election and the Riots at the US Capitol

History Professor Andrew Johnston, who specializes in American History, was interviewed by Lucy van Oldenbarneveld of CBC Ottawa. While professor Johnston was originally invited to speak about the results of the runoff election in the state of Georgia, the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol were top of mind during the news segment. The... More

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