Current Students
Welcome Graduate Students
The History Department is dedicated to providing you with the information and support you need to succeed in your studies here at Carleton.
The following pages will be your best resource for anything History-related at the graduate level:
Careers in History
The Canadian Historical Association has a career guide developed for Graduate History Students. You may also want to check out the Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development site.
History Graduate Students’ Association (HGSA)
The History Graduate Students’ Association has a vibrant and active presence in Carleton’s History Department. Entirely student run, the HGSA aims to create a strong sense of community among all history graduate students.
Underhill Graduate Colloquium
The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. For over twenty years, graduate students in the Department of History at Carleton University have organized an annual colloquium in which master’s and doctoral students from all disciplines are invited to present papers on any history-related topic. Hear what the students have to say about the 2022 edition.
News and Events
Rod Phillips was a “Smithsonian Expert” on a Rhône River cruise
Professor Rod Phillips spent a week in May as a “Smithsonian Expert” on a cruise down the Rhône River, in eastern France. The Smithsonian Institution, …
Lauren Stoyles Receives The Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards for 2025
Lauren Stoyles has spent over a decade preserving and sharing the history of Ontario. She has been an interpreter, researcher, archival assistant, collections manager and …
Ottawa launch of Cats: A History by Rod Phillips
Cats is a history of the relationships between cats and humans from the time wildcats entered the human orbit in the Middle East about 12,000 …
Additional Help
Please contact the Graduate Administrator, Joan White, at grad_history@carleton.ca or the Graduate Supervisor at grad.history@carleton.ca