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Monday, September 13, 2021

Michael Petrou Interviewed for Article on the History of Sept 11, 2001

Adjunct Research Professor Michael Petrou was interviewed by Erica Alini as part of her article describing what the events of September 11, 2001 mean to today's young adults. A short excerpt is provided below with the full article, "For generation Z, 9/11 is history. How do they relate to it?" available online. The fact... More

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Shawn Graham Publishes Op-Ed in Hyperallergic

History professor Shawn Graham and adjunct research professor Damien Huffer have published an op-ed in the arts magazine Hyperallergic drawing on their research into the online human remains trade. "We shouldn’t need a law explicitly declaring “No one can own dead people,” though perhaps that would help. We need enforcement of the laws that... More

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Jeff Blackadar Publishes New Article

History alumnus current MA in History with Data Science student Jeff H. Blackadar and colleagues Benjamin P. Carter and Weston L. A. Conner have just published a new article in the Advances in Archaeological Practice journal. The full article, "When Computers Dream of Charcoal: Using Deep Learning, Open Tools, and Open Data to Identify... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Tonight: We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism Event

The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) is hosting an amazing event Friday August 27th at 1pm ET titled “WE STILL DEMAND: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF 2SLGBTQIA+ ACTIVISM” with support of the Anti-69 Network, Fredericton Pride, and activist scholars Tom Hooper, Gary Kinsman, and IIS faculty member Patrizia Gentile. The... More

Monday, August 16, 2021

History Department – Return to Campus Details

As of August 23, 2021, the Department of History will be open from Monday – Friday, 8:30am -12:00pm & 1:00-4:30pm, closed for lunch, 12:00 – 1:00pm.  At this time, administrative staff will only deal with general walk-in inquiries. All appointments will continue to be held virtually.  There will be no person-to-person appointments... More

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Shawn Graham and Jaime Simmons Write Article for Internet Archaeology

Professor Shawn Graham has co-authored a new publication with grad student Jaime Simmons. The piece, "Listening to Dura Europos: An Experiment in Archaeological Image Sonification", has just been published in Internet Archaeology (a leading open access journal for digital archaeology, computational archaeology). The work that led to this... More

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Rod Phillips awarded grant to study the French Revolution and wine

Professor Rod Phillips has been awarded a four-year SSHRC Insight Grant to study the impact of the French Revolution on France’s wine industry and culture.  He has written several books on the history of wine and while writing his history of French wine (published in 2016) he realized how important the Revolutionary period (1789-99)... More

Friday, July 16, 2021

Jennifer Evans Joins International Network to Conduct Research on Queer History and Sexualities in German-Speaking Europe

Jennifer Evans joins an international network based at the Free University of Berlin. The network, consisting of 20 scholars from the US, Canada, Germany, and the UK, will conduct research queer history and sexualities in German-speaking Europe, funded by a three-year grant from the German Research Foundation. The network will enhance the... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Jennifer Evans Curates Holocaust Memory Debate

In May and June, Jennifer Evans curated a series of daily responses on the New Fascism Syllabus (NFS) to a thought piece written by genocide historian Dirk Moses in the Swiss history journal Geschichte der Gegenwart (the History of Today). In "The German Catechism," Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Rod Phillips interviewed on the New Books Network

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed on the New Books Network, a podcast that interviews authors of recently published books.  The book he discussed is French Wine: A History, which was published by the University of California Press in 2016, with the paperback edition appearing in 2020. The 60-minute interview ranged widely and you can... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Laura Madokoro Receives Early Researcher Awards Program Funding

Congratulations to Laura Madokoro, who has been awarded funding through the Ontario government’s prestigious Early Researcher Awards Program for her research project titled “Disaster Migration at Home and Abroad: A Transnational History of Canadian Relief Efforts (1900 - present).” Laura’s research program will explore the history of... More

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Michael Petrou Contributes Chapter on Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

Adjunct Research Professor Michael Petrou has written a chapter in the recently published "Armed Jews in the Americas". Professor Petrou is a well-respected historian and journalist who will be teaching for the History Department again in winter 2022. To learn more about this new publication, including Professor Petrou's chapter "'Our Fight Is Not... More

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