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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

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Jennifer Evans and Team Create New Digital Repository

This summer, Jennifer Evans helped shepherd into being the German Studies Collaboratory, a repository of online resources for use in research and teaching. The Collaboratory includes links to webinars and talks, library and archive digital collections, film, podcasts, and video. A teaching section provides colleagues with assignment ideas and... More

Monday, July 27, 2020

David Dean and Daniel McNeil Publish New Book co-edited with Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa

Yana Meerzon, David Dean, and Daniel McNeil have co-edited a new collection of essays, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture with Palgrave. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Jacob Kovalio Talks About the Human Rights Situation of Uyghurs

History Professor Jacob Kovalio, weighed in on the treatment of the Uyghurs in China, following a House of Commons discussion of the situation in Xinjiang. The full article, "Uyghur Victims Narrate About Chinese Atrocities to House of Commons of Canada" is available online with a short excerpt included below. The House of Commons of... More

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Shawn Graham’s New Book is Now Available

History Professor and Digital Historian, Shawn Graham, has a new book out: "An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence". About the book The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling... More

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

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