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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
This year's winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies, is Carleton History Professor Michel Hogue's "Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People." (University of Regina Press, 2015). The book tells the story of the... More
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Professor David Dean‘s History, Memory, and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan) co-edited with University of Ottawa’s Yana Meerzon and Kathryn Prince, won Honourable Mention for the 2016 Patrick O’Neill Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research at Congress this year. The adjudicating committee commented: "With an editorial vision... More
Monday, June 6, 2016
Professor Susanne Klausen won the Joel Gregory Prize (awarded by the Canadian Association for African Studies for best book in African Studies published in 2014 and 2015) for her book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa (Oxford UP, 2015). Prof. Klausen's book also received the Canadian... More
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Prof. Michel Hogue's book Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of Regina Press) is one of five books shortlisted for the 2016 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is attributed annually to the best scholarly book in Canadian history and is awarded,... More
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Two Faculty members from the Department of History, Professors Norman Hillmer and Michel Hogue, have been named as finalists for the 2016 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. Norman Hillmer has been named for his book entitled O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition (University of Toronto Press). The book, released... More
Monday, March 7, 2016
Prof. Norman Hillmer has been shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition. The book, released in late-2015, delves into the legacy of O.D. Skelton, the widely regarded architect of the Canadian foreign service and longtime Under-Secretary of State for External... More
Friday, January 29, 2016
In her new book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women’s Reproductive Rights in South Africa, Dr. Susanne Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the authoritarian National Party government attempted to regulate white women’s reproductive sexuality in the interest of... More
Thursday, December 17, 2015
J. Laurence (Larry) Black, The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, 2008-2012: The Next Step Forward or Merely a Time Out (Routledge, 2015) The term "tandem" was used to describe the Putin-Medvedev combination which ruled Russia from 2008 to 2012, when Medvedev was president and Putin prime minister. Many people saw Putin as the real wielder... More
The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series, entitled "Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: 1914-1939", examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government... More
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
When Canadians reflect on the history of their country and those who were instrumental in shaping it, the names of political titans like Macdonald, King, and Trudeau are far more likely to enter the discussion than Oscar Douglas Skelton. Carleton University’s Norman Hillmer’s new book, O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition, discloses... More
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Dr. Susanne Klausen launched her book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa at the University of Johannesburg Auckland Park Kingsway Campus on November 4. In Abortion Under Apartheid, Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the... More
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Michel Hogue speaks so energetically about the personalities in his new book Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), you’d almost think he had met them in person. But as you might expect from an assistant professor in the History department, it turns... More
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