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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Amie Wright Interviewed by The Charlatan

PhD candidate in Public History, Amie Wright, was recently interviewed by Sarah Forrest for the Charlatan. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Q&A: Amie Wright brings librarian and historian background to new comics director role," available online. Amie Wright, a history instructor and public history PhD candidate at... More

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Mary Owusu Publishes New Book

Congratulations to Mary Owusu on the publication of her new book, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Ghana: Founding Fathers, Nation-Building, and Transnational Thinkers, published by Cambridge University... More

Monday, November 25, 2024

Rod Phillips’s latest book wins prize

Professor Rod Phillips’s latest book, Un curé dans les vignes, which was co-authored by Jean Bart and published earlier this year by Editions Universitaires de Dijon, has been awarded the Prix Vergnette de Lamotte 2024. The annual prize recognizes work on the history of wine in Burgundy. Un curé dans les vignes is partly... More

Monday, November 18, 2024

Pamela Walker Talks About Reacting to the Past

History Professor Pamela Walker's use of game play in her courses has been featured in University World News. A short excerpt has been included below with the full article, "How games can teach students more history than lectures," by Nathan M. Greenfield, is available online. On 5 November 2024, his Majesty King Louis XVI’s... More

Monday, November 18, 2024

Rod Phillips talks on CBC about the decline of drinking

Professor Rod Phillips was interviewed on the CBC Radio program, ‘The Cost of Living’, about the current decline in alcohol consumption. He discussed some of the reasons younger people, in particular, are drinking less or not at all, and the reactions of the alcohol industry to the decline in consumption. You can hear the... More

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