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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Community Event With Trans Library

This Winter semester, Jennifer Evans and PhD student Noë Bourdeau have team taught a fourth-year seminar on Trans History. On Saturday April 20th, students in that class will present their work to community in a partnership with the Ottawa Trans Library. Students have explored various topics and themes in their research from trans musicology... More

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Former PhD Student is New Book Review Editor at Gender and History

Jane Freeland, who received her PhD in 2016 with an award winning dissertation on domestic violence in postwar East and West Germany, has taken on the position of book review editor of the journal Gender and History. The journal is one of the highest impact addresses for work in the history of gender and sexuality,... More

Friday, December 8, 2023

Jennifer Evans and Former Public History Students Publish New Book on Holocaust Memory and Social Media

This month, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape will be released by Bloomsbury UK. Written by Jennifer Evans together with former students Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen, it is a landmark intervention in the field of memory studies, Holocaust studies, and public history. As founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association Jenny... More

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Donate December 1st to bring History to Life

This #GivingTuesday donate to bring Ottawa's history to life! On December 1st @carletonuniversity is supporting CapitalHistory.ca by doubling the impact of your donations dollar-for-dollar. With more than 35,000 people passing by each day this is one of the most dynamic ways residents and visitors can learn about little known and untold stories.... More

Monday, March 16, 2020

History Department Main Office is Closed – Staff Working Remotely

Important Notice: Following the advice of Ottawa Public Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health, Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, Carleton University has closed all non-essential services. During this time, The Department of History will be operating online, and staff will be working remotely. For support, please... More

Friday, December 14, 2018

Jennifer Evans Publishes Article in Washington Post

Jennifer Evans published an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Tumblr and Facebook's troubling new Community Standards policy. Drawing on her SSHRC-supported research in the history of sexuality and photography, she argues that overreaction to charged images reflects age-old tensions around photography's place on the border between art and... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Finding Big Meaning in Small Histories

Since April 2014, Sara Spike’s Small History NS Twitter feed and Tumblr blog have reached hundreds of followers with daily news from rural and small-town Nova Scotia, c.1880-1910. Drawn from her dissertation research, these tweets chart seasonal rhythms of labour, leisure, land, and sea with updates such as: The first wild strawberries... A... More

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