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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Jen Evans Wins DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies

Congratulations to History Professor Jen Evans for winning the DAAD/GSA Prize for her book, The Queer Art of History. The DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies is funded through the North American office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), awarded annually by a GSA committee. The winner receives... More

Thursday, September 19, 2024

David Dean Promoted to Distinguished Research Professor

David Dean has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Research Professor with graduate supervision status for a five year term. The promotion recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments and contributions of a retired full professor during their career who is undertaking significant ongoing research activities. Retired as of 1 July, David... More

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer’s Book Reviewed in Hyperallergic

History Professor Shawn Graham and Adjunct Research Professor Damien Huffer have co-authored a new book, These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains, and Why It Matters (Berghahn Books, 2023), which was just reviewed by Erin L. Thompson for Hyperallergic. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Why Is... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Rod Phillips’s new book is on wine in eighteenth-century Burgundy

Professor Rod Phillips’s latest book, Un curé dans les vignes (A Priest among the Vines), has just been published in France by Éditions Universitaires de Dijon. It is co-authored by Jean Bart, an old friend of Rod – they met in Paris in 1989, at a conference for the bicentennial of the French Revolution... More

Monday, June 17, 2024

W. R. Laird Publishes New Book

Professor Emeritus W. R. Laird has just published The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism, Archimedes 68 (Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2024). The two tomes of Francisci Maurolyci Archimedea, ed. Riccardo Bellé, Pier Daniele Napolitani, and Beatrice Sisani, Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Matematica di Francesco... More

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Rod Phillips publishes piece on ‘neo-Prohibitionism’

Professor Rod Phillips has published a short piece, in the weekly Newsletter of Meininger’s Wine Business International (an important wine trade publication from Germany), on the notion of ‘neo-Prohibitionism’. This is a term that is becoming widely used in the alcohol business to refer to advice from public health organizations (such as... More

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Laura Madokoro Announces Launch of “More Than a Face”

History Professor Laura Madokoro is pleased to announce the launch of the exhibit "More Than a Face" as part of the new Active History on Display initiative. Interrogating the notion of being Asian Canadian, the exhibit features nine storytellers who selected and then spoke to the significance of photographs or objects they found meaningful.... More

Friday, April 19, 2024

Krenare Recaj Reflects on PhD Training in “Active History”

Krenare Recaj, PhD Candidate, has written an article for Active History reflecting on her PhD training. An excerpt is included below with the full article, "Sadness, and sacrifice: A reflection on PhD training, comprehensive exams, and the discipline of history," available online. In the third year of my undergrad, I was sitting beside my... More

Friday, April 12, 2024

Rod Phillips discusses BIG bottles of wine

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by The Forward, an online Jewish publication in the US. They were interested in the reason why the names of kings and other men featured in the Torah are given to so many large-format wine bottles. For example, a 3-litre wine bottle is called a Jeroboam, a 12-litre wine... More

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Matt Bellamy Wins 2024 BHC Philip Scranton Best Article Prize

Congratulations to History Professor Matthew Bellamy! This past weekend his article "“Business Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the ‘Responsible Drinker.'" was awarded the 2024 BHC Philip Scranton Best Article Prize. The prize recognizes the author or authors of an article published in... More

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Jennifer Evans Gives Lectures at Southampton and Oxford

Over the reading break, Jennifer Evans gave two invited lectures in the UK, part of LGBTQ History Month. Drawing on her recent book, The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023), she talked about the power and potency of trans-inclusive queer kinships in bridging differences and mobilizing for change. At... More