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Friday, March 27, 2020

Daniel McNeil Interviewed for FASSinate Magazine

History Professor Daniel McNeil discusses how public-facing humanities research can contribute to the critical discourse on energy and climate change. A short excerpt is included below. The full article, "Strange Weather, Shy Elitism and Soul Rebels" by Nick Ward, can be viewed online. We see climate change everywhere. Its present and looming... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

History Department Main Office is Closed – Staff Working Remotely

Important Notice: Following the advice of Ottawa Public Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health, Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, Carleton University has closed all non-essential services. During this time, The Department of History will be operating online, and staff will be working remotely. For support, please... More

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Jennifer Evans Writes Op-Ed for Der Tagesspiegel

Jennifer Evans wrote and published an Op/Ed in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, signed by several prominent historians of sexuality. The article calls into question the contentious sponsorship and handling of an anti-semitic and transphobic lecture under the auspices of an initiative tasked with creating a queer cultural and historical centre in... More

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Rod Phillips publishes article on wine during the French Revolution

Professor Rod Phillips has published an article in the Festschrift for Peter McPhee, a noted Australian historian of the French Revolution.  A colloquium in honour of McPhee was held at the University of Melbourne in July 2019 and Phillips was invited to give a paper. It has just been published on H-France:... More

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Joan White Nominated for a 2019 Service Excellence Award

The History Department’s Graduate Administrator, Joan White, has been nominated for a 2019 Carleton University Service Excellence Award in the Individual category. Congratulations Joan! The full list of nominees is available online. The award recipients will be announced this Thursday, February 27th at the 10th Annual Awards Luncheon at noon in... More

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Joanna Dean Interviewed on CBC Ottawa Morning

Professor Joanna Dean was recently interviewed on CBC Ottawa Morning. Listen to the full interview online to hear Prof. Dean discuss Ottawa's urban tree... More

Friday, January 31, 2020

History Alumnus to be Inducted into Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame

The History Department would like to congratulate one of our alumni, Derek Holmes, BA/73 (History), as he is one of six people who will be inducted into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame in May.  He will be honoured at the ceremony on May 13 at the Brookstreet Hotel. A short excerpt is below... More

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Two recent PhDs to publish dissertations with prominent scholarly presses.

Sean Eedy and Jane Freeland, who finished their PhDs under the supervision of Jennifer Evans, have signed contracts to publish their monographs. Eedy's explores comic book publishing in the German Democratic Republic as both a tool of the state and source of subcultural identity for communist consumers. Comics books, while primarily aimed at... More

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Chinnaiah Jangam Writes Article on Hate Politics for The Indian Express

Associate Professor Chinnaiah Jangam writes about the detrimental effects of hate politics in India in a recent article for The Indian Express. A short excerpt follows with the full article, "Hate politics pushing us into existential crisis" available online. Among the decolonised nation-states, India had stood as a model. Its non-violent... More

Friday, January 17, 2020

Rod Phillips’s visits to French archive and wineries noted by local media

Professor Rod Phillips spent two weeks in the Bugey region of eastern France in December.  He spent part of this time in the regional archive (Archives départementales de l’Ain), researching wine production and consumption during the French Revolution for a future book.  Among his findings was an inventory of fine wines seized from the... More

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Jennifer Evans gives paper at American Historical Association on SSHRC research project

Jennifer Evans presented her work on Queering the Visual History of the Sexual Revolution on a panel examining the transnational history of sexuality in New York City in January 2020. This paper is part of her research together with Danielle Kinsey into the transatlantic pathways erotic photography travelled in the 1950s-1980s that formed part... More

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

David Dean Publishes an Article on “Living History”

Professor David Dean recently published a short article on "Living History" in the Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies (2019). Edited by Vanessa Agnew (who gave a 2015 Shannon Lecture on "Reenacting Genocide"), Jonathan Lamb and Juliane Tomann, the handbook provides the first published overview of significant concepts within reenactment... More

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