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Monday, February 26, 2024
History Professor Erica Fraser wrote an article for Active History discussing content warning in classes. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "When Class Content Gives the Professor Nightmares, It Might be Time for a Warning," available online. Looking back, I probably began using content warnings for students after giving... More
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Hear History Professor Audra Diptée’s talk about her latest project, Chained in Paradise. It is about a secret British policy that involved the destruction and hiding of colonial documents in the Caribbean during the twentieth century. The policy was known as Operation Legacy and became public knowledge in 2011. Chained in Paradise will... More
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The results from the first archaeological work done in space on a human habitation in orbit are in! This features work by History Professor Shawn Graham and newly graduated MA Chantal Brousseau. The full details are available in "The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station, Report 1: Squares... More
Friday, February 16, 2024
Congratulations to History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam for winning the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation (South Asia)! The AAS 2024 Awards Ceremony will take place at the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel, Grand Ballroom, Second Floor on Saturday, March 16 at 10:15am Pacific Time. About Gabbilam: A Dalit Epic, translated by Chinnaiah Jangam... More
Monday, February 12, 2024
Professor Rod Phillips has published “The transfer of vineyard ownership during the French Revolution: A pivotal event in the history of French wine,” in the Journal of Wine Economics. All Church property not needed for strictly spiritual purposes was expropriated by the French state in 1790 and auctioned off during the following years. In... More
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Instructor and Ph.D. candidate, Rebecca Friend, wrote for the Canadian Museums Association’s magazine, Muse. A short excerpt has been included below while the full article, "Considering Children in Museums" is available online. Children have long been seen as an integral audience for museums. The 2021 report Trust and Value: The Role of Museums... More
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Ph.D. student Tyla Betke has just had a paper published in the The Canadian Historical Review. The abstract is posted below while the full paper, "'Not a Shred of Evidence' :Settler Colonial Networks of Concealment and the Birtle Indian Residential School" is available online. Abstract This article examines how the network of settler colonial... More
Monday, January 8, 2024
Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed by Magazine F (reading-f.com/), a Korean magazine that takes an in-depth look at common foods and drinks. Each issue focuses on one commodity, and earlier issues have included tea, bread, honey, and yoghurt. The January 2024 issue focuses on wine, and Rod talked about various aspects of wine, including... More
Friday, December 8, 2023
From time to time, the New Fascism Syllabus hosts roundtable discussions centered around emerging historiographical contributions, questions, or issues. Featuring some of the leading voices on these various debates, these contributions in this series are intended to serve as an Open Access window onto new directions in historical analysis on... More
History alumnus, Jeff Blackadar, has just published a new paper. The abstract is below with the full paper, Transcribing Handwritten Text with Python and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision, available online. Abstract Tools for machine transcription of handwriting are practical and labour-saving if you need to analyse or present text in digital form.... More
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
History Professor Shawn Graham and Professor Donna Yates of Maastricht University, have just published a joint paper. We were fortunate to have Prof. Yates speak at Carleton University when she was a guest speaker for our annual Shannon Lecture Series. An abstract of the paper, "Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities,... More
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Adjunct Research Professor Veronica Norando was recently quoted in an article on the upcoming presidential election in Argentina. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "A extraordinary provocateur at the gates of power in Argentina," available online. Impoverished and up to their necks in debt, the Argentines no longer know... More
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