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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
History Alumnus Stuart MacKay, is a historian specializing in the American Republican Party and is currently working on a book about the party during the Civil War era. A short excerpt of the article he wrote for the Washington Post is included below. The full article, "Ted Cruz's proposed election commission can only hurt... More
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
History Alumna Melissa Armstrong sits down with Carleton's Nick Ward to discuss her new book An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, "Discussing 'An Ambulance on Safari'" available online. Recent History PhD graduate Melissa Armstrong’s new... More
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Professor Patrizia Gentile, cross-appointed with the departments of History, Sociology and Canadian Studies has written a new book entitled Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (UBC Press, 2020). About the Book As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But... More
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
History Professor Jennifer Evans has written a piece in The Conversation that looks at the long-term effects of the Trump presidency, despite his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "Trump lost, but racism is alive and infused in U.S. history," available online. The United States... More
Monday, November 2, 2020
Jennifer Evans, together with the editorial board of the New Fascism Syllabus project, crafted a letter of concern which garnered the signatures of over 150 scholars, warning of the need to strengthen democratic principles and institutions following the US Election. It has been covered in The Guardian and the Washington Post Excerpt from "Scholars... More
The History Department congratulates Professor Jeff Sahadeo, Director of EURUS, on winning the 2020 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Book Prize for his book Voices from the Soviet Edge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). A short excerpt is provided below, with more details available on the Faculty of Public Affairs... More
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Hot off the press! An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile, the first medical and political history of emergency health care services for MK cadres, South Africans in exile, and local patients in numerous ANC bases in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1990. This important... More
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Associate Professor Monica Patterson (Cross-Appointed with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the History Department) has written an article for the American Alliance of Museums detailing how the current pandemic has affected museums and how a new children's museology is emerging as a result. A short excerpt is included below, with the... More
Monday, September 21, 2020
The History Department would like to congratulate Adjunct Research Professor Charlotte Gray for being named one of the finalists in this year's non-fiction category of the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Finalists announced for 2020 Ottawa Book Awards" by Lynn Saxberg of the Ottawa... More
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
The History Department is pleased to announce that two of our recent graduate students have completed books for publication. Dr. Melissa Armstrong graduated from Carleton with a PhD in history in 2017. She has just recently published a historical monograph called An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department... More
Monday, July 27, 2020
Yana Meerzon, David Dean, and Daniel McNeil have co-edited a new collection of essays, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture with Palgrave. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been... More
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
History Professor and Digital Historian, Shawn Graham, has a new book out: "An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence". About the book The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling... More
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