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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
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Associate History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam has written an opinion piece for The Wire. While a short excerpt is included below, you can read the full article, "From Communalism to Privatisation, P.V. Narasimha Rao Was New India's Architect-in-Chief," online. All over the world, there is an uproar against the monuments erected to people whose... More
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Professor Rod Phillips’s book French Wine: A History, which was first published by the University of California Press in 2016, has just been published in paperback. The book has sold very well and has been widely and positively reviewed, being described variously as “an absolute tour de force, sure to be an instant classic,”... More
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Alumna Alana Toulin, who earned an M.A. in History under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Johnston, has just been awarded the Best Article Prize from the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Congratulations Alana! About the JGAPE Best Article Prize For the best article published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive... More
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Associate Professor, Laura Madokoro, has written an article describing how government actions during the coronavirus pandemic can affect vulnerable populations. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "Coronavirus: Racism and the long-term impacts of emergency measures in Canada" available online. The dangers to public health... More
Thursday, March 5, 2020
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
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
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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
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
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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
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