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Monday, June 20, 2022

David Dean and Daniel McNeil Win the Patrick O’Neill Honorable Mention Award for their collection of essays

David Dean and our former colleague Daniel McNeil won the 2022 Canadian Association for Theatre Research's Patrick O'Neill Honorable Mention Award for their collection of essays Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) co-edited with the University of Ottawa's Yana Meerzon. The citation reads: Writing from the... More

Monday, June 20, 2022

Anna Kozlova Participated in the Young Atlantiks Program

In May, doctoral student Anna Kozlova visited Berlin to participate in the Young Atlantiks program, run by the Atlantik Brücke and Atlantik Brücke Canada, organizations committed to deepening relations between Germany and the US and Canada. Carleton is a member of Atlantik Brücke and represented by Dr. Teddy Samy, Director of NPSIA. Anna was... More

Monday, June 13, 2022

Norman Hillmer Reflects on the Role of Royal Tours in Canada

The following short excerpt is from the article "Visit Fit for a Queen: The Role of Royal Tours in Canada" by Elizabeth Kane. This May, Ottawa plays host to not one but two royal visits. From May 12 to 16, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands attended Tulip Festival events in honour of the longstanding... More

Thursday, June 9, 2022

History Graduate Students discuss successful Underhill Colloquium

With spring comes flowers, milder weather and the start of academic conference season. Fueled by a tremendous amount of volunteer labour, graduate student conferences in particular are invaluable spaces where early career scholars can learn about the latest ideas in their field and share their own work with peers from institutions across Canada... More

Friday, June 3, 2022

Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at June 2022 Convocation

The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Nigel Rose Heathcliff Klemencic-Puglisevich (BA Combined Honours in Greek and Roman Studies and in History) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Undergraduate Level; Pascale Therese Malenfant (BJ Honours in Journalism with English... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Rod Phillips talks about nineteenth-century German wine

Professor Rod Phillips gave an invited paper at the Eighth Transnational Rhine Conference, held from 19 to 21 May in Oestrich-Winkel and Eltville, Germany. These towns are on the River Rhine, whose political, economic, and cultural significance in history is the focus of the conferences. Wine and tourism were among the themes of the... More

Friday, May 13, 2022

Audra Diptée asks “how do we effectively mobilize historical knowledge?”

The following is a short excerpt from Nick Ward's article "Reclaiming the Caribbean’s Historical Truth: History Professor confronts distorted colonial narratives in textbooks and the classroom." “History may be about the past, but it is contested in the present, in a fight for a particular vision of the future,” says Audra Diptée,... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

History Administrators Recognized in FASS Kindness Campaign

Six administrative teams in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences share their experiences, advice and wisdom, including History's own Darlene Moss and Tanya Schwartz. Read the full article, "Get to Know Your FASS Admin Staff!"... More

Friday, May 6, 2022

Three History Faculty Members are 2022-23 FASS Award Winners

Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences comes together at the vin d'honneur to celebrate our faculty's recent accomplishments. Please visit the FASS site for more details on the event and the honorees. And the History Department would like to take this opportunity to congratulate three of our own faculty members: Professor John... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Rod Phillips interviewed on declining wine consumption in France

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed recently by the French edition of The Local, a news service for English-speakers living in Europe, on patterns of wine consumption in France. Rod has written extensively on wine, and his books include French Wine: A History (University of California Press, 2016, paperback 2020). The reason for interest in... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Populist Publics Research Assistant participates in Parliamentary Committee on IMVE

Brandon Rigato, research assistant in Jennifer Evans's SSHRC supported Populist Publics project and a PhD candidate (ABD) in The School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, provided a witness statement at the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security panel April 28th for the study of the... More