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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

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Michael Petrou Speaks About Liberian Warlord’s Slaying in Ontario

Dr. Michael Petrou, Adjunct Research Professor in the History Department, spoke to the National Post following the shooting of Bill Horace in London Ontario. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "Liberian warlord's slaying in Ontario puts more than alleged war crimes in spotlight" by Scott Maniquet is available online. London... More

Friday, June 19, 2020

Congratulations! Graduating History Students Win Medals

The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Undergraduates Esther Willa Vininsky-Oakes (BA Honours Combined in English and History, June 2020) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Undergraduate Level; Christian Comeau (BA Honours in Geomatics with Geography and History minors,... More

Monday, June 15, 2020

History Alumna Benny Michaud Appointed Director, Centre for Indigenous Initiatives

The following excerpt is from the June 9, 2020 Carleton News Release. The full release, entitled "Carleton Enhances EDI and Indigenous Leadership", which includes details on the other two new appointments, can be found online. History alumna and contract instructor, Benny Michaud, has been appointed to the new role of Director, Centre for... More

Monday, June 15, 2020

Patrizia Gentile Talks about McGill’s first Black Queen of Carnival

Associate Professor Patrizia Gentile, from the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (cross-appointed with the following: Department of History; Department of Sociology; School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies; Department of Law and Legal Studies), speaks about Beryl Rapier — then Beryl Dickinson-Dash - as part of a documentary by Julia... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Rod Phillips’s history of French wine is now in paperback

Professor Rod Phillips’s book French Wine: A History, which was first published by the University of California Press in 2016, has just been published in paperback. The book has sold very well and has been widely and positively reviewed, being described variously as “an absolute tour de force, sure to be an instant classic,”... More

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