Some of the innovative projects and presentations put together by Carleton History graduate students: Friday, April 19, 2024Krenare Recaj Reflects on PhD Training in “Active History”Krenare Recaj, PhD Candidate, has written an article for Active History reflecting on her PhD training. An excerpt is included below with the full article, "Sadness, and sacrifice: A reflection on PhD training, comprehensive exams, and the discipline of history," available online. In the third year of my undergrad, I was sitting beside my... MoreTuesday, April 16, 2024Krenare Recaj, Norman Hillmer, and Laura Madokoro Awarded a SSHRC Connection GrantKrenare Recaj, PhD Candidate, and History Professors Norman Hillmer and Laura Madokoro have been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for an upcoming conference titled "Memory, Politics, and Precedent: Canada and the Kosovar Refugee Diaspora 25 Years On". The conference will be held on 2 November 2024 at the University of Toronto and is being... MoreTuesday, February 27, 2024Noë Bourdeau Delivers Seminar Paper at OxfordPhD student Noë Bourdeau presented preliminary research findings from his dissertation at Professor Zoe Waxman's Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory, part of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Bourdeau's research bridges the fields of Holocaust studies and transgender studies to foreground the role of gender mutability across... MoreTuesday, February 27, 2024Holly Benison Teaches Cooking and History Through YouTube SeriesPublic History MA student Holly Benison has created a cooking show as part of her master's thesis project. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article by Alyssa Tremblay, "A Recipe for Research: Carleton Student Creates Canadian Culinary History Cooking Show," available online. From green corn patties to preserved apples, public... MoreWednesday, January 10, 2024Tyla Betke Publishes Paper with The Canadian Historical ReviewPh.D. student Tyla Betke has just had a paper published in the The Canadian Historical Review. The abstract is posted below while the full paper, "'Not a Shred of Evidence' :Settler Colonial Networks of Concealment and the Birtle Indian Residential School" is available online. Abstract This article examines how the network of settler colonial... MoreMonday, December 18, 2023Krenare Recaj Publishes Book Based on Doctoral ResearchCongratulations to PhD Candidate Krenare Recaj on the publication of her children’s book, “You Are Albanian” based in part on her doctoral research, which explores the history of the Kosovar Albanian refugee movement and diaspora. The book has garnered a great deal of media attention and been toasted by the Kosovar Consulate in Canada.... MoreFriday, December 16, 2022Chantal Brousseau Featured in Popular ScienceChantal Brousseau (MA Student in History and Data Science) was featured in Popular Science magazine's recent special print edition on space exploration. She spoke to Popular Science about her work as a researcher, alongside History Prof. Shawn Graham, on the International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP)—the first-ever large-scale... MoreTuesday, August 30, 2022Profile of Karyn Pugliese, MA AlumnaKaryn Pugliese, a history alumna (MA - June 2005), is now Executive Editor for Canada's National Observer. The profile text below is from the Canada's National Observer website. Karyn Pugliese is Executive Editor of Canada's National Observer and a member of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation in Ontario. She was Managing Editor of... MoreMonday, June 20, 2022Anna Kozlova Participated in the Young Atlantiks ProgramIn May, doctoral student Anna Kozlova visited Berlin to participate in the Young Atlantiks program, run by the Atlantik Brücke and Atlantik Brücke Canada, organizations committed to deepening relations between Germany and the US and Canada. Carleton is a member of Atlantik Brücke and represented by Dr. Teddy Samy, Director of NPSIA. Anna was... MoreThursday, June 9, 2022History Graduate Students discuss successful Underhill ColloquiumWith spring comes flowers, milder weather and the start of academic conference season. Fueled by a tremendous amount of volunteer labour, graduate student conferences in particular are invaluable spaces where early career scholars can learn about the latest ideas in their field and share their own work with peers from institutions across Canada... MoreTuesday, July 27, 2021Shawn Graham and Jaime Simmons Write Article for Internet ArchaeologyProfessor Shawn Graham has co-authored a new publication with grad student Jaime Simmons. The piece, "Listening to Dura Europos: An Experiment in Archaeological Image Sonification", has just been published in Internet Archaeology (a leading open access journal for digital archaeology, computational archaeology). The work that led to this... MoreThursday, February 18, 2021Four History MA Students Nominated for The DH AwardsWe are pleased to announce that Ona Bantjes-Ràfols, Danielle Mahon, Jaime Simons, and Sammy Holmes of this year’s MA cohort have been nominated for The DH Awards, under three separate categories - best use of DH for public engagement, best DH data visualization, and best DH Response to COVID-19! These projects emerged from their... MoreWednesday, December 16, 2020HIST 5210 Students Reflect on Power Structures and Humour in Zoom UniversityFollowing the completion of HIST 5210A with Professor Jennifer Evans, both graduate students and the professor take time to examine how power structures, learning, and communications have been affected through online learning in this pandemic-plagued year. A short excerpt is below with the full article, "Levelling the Playing Field: Humour in the... MoreThursday, November 26, 2020Donate December 1st to bring History to LifeThis #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.... MoreTuesday, June 2, 2020Former MA Student Wins Best Paper AwardAlumna 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... MoreThursday, April 30, 2020Rebecca Friend’s Research Profiled in Grad NewsThe following excerpt is from the article by Taia Goguen-Garner. The full article, "Grad Research: Incorporating Youth Perspectives in Monuments", can be found online. Rebecca Friend, a Master’s student in Public History is researching how children and childhood have been represented in Canadian commemorations like monuments and... MoreTuesday, November 26, 2019MA Student Kate Jordan Interns at the Dominion-Chalmers United ChurchThe following story is a short excerpt from the website of the Graduate Studies department. The full story, "Grad Student Interns at the Dominion-Chalmers United Church" is available online. –The following story was written by Taia Gorguen-Garner. “I hear you are singing in a church choir,” are the words Carleton Master’s Student Kate... MoreThursday, November 7, 2019Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at November ConvocationThe History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Christine Anna Chisholm (Ph.D. History) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Graduate Level; Tristan Clayton Lee-Coughlin (B.A. General in History with high distinction) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic... MoreTuesday, July 2, 2019Rick Duthie Discusses How He Uses the Stage as the Platform for His Dissertation ResearchThe following excerpt is from Rick Duthie's interview with Mia Jensen from the Sudbury Star. The full article, "New Play Explorers Sudbury's Labour Strife" can be viewed online. He was also recently interviewed by Heidi Ulrichsen of Sudbury.com for the article "This PhD Student is Using the Stage to Explore City's Tumultuous Labour History".... MoreTuesday, June 11, 2019Cristina Wood Featured in the Ottawa CitizenBelow is a short excerpt from the Ottawa Citizen article about Cristina Wood's research as part of her MA in Public History here at Carleton University. The full article by Tom Spears, "The Ottawa River's history re-told in musical notes," can be found online. To tell the history of the Ottawa River, Cristina Wood... MoreTuesday, June 4, 2019Congratulations! History Students Win Medals at June ConvocationThe History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Peter James Richardson (BA General in History) for winning the President's Medal; Cristina Marie Wood (M.A. Public History, Specialization in Digital Humanities) for winning the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work - Master's Level; Samantha Kathleen Albanese... MoreThursday, April 4, 2019Garth Wilson Fellow Cristina Wood Describes Her Latest Research InterestsThrough the Garth Wilson Fellowship in Public History offered by Ingenium, the federal Crown corporation which oversees museums related to science and technology, and the Department of History, MA student Cristina Wood will tell a data-informed story about the Ottawa River using song. Below is a short excerpt from Nick Ward's article "Telling... MoreTuesday, January 15, 2019“In Podcasts We Trust?”. Cassandra Marsillo and Nathalie Picard publish article on Canadian History PodcastsIn December 2018 “In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts” authored by second year MA in Public History students Cassandra Marsillo and Nathalie Picard was published in Vol. 1.2 of the new online journal, International Public History. They highlight the exciting and growing historical podcast scene in Canada,... MoreThursday, October 18, 2018History student writes a play about mining strikes in Sudbury as a part of his thesisPublic History visits the Theatre! Give a quick listen to history grad student Rick Duthie's interview on CBC’s radio show Morning North in Sudbury. It aired the morning of a second staged reading performance of his play Sudbury Strike Stories on 15 October 2018. It includes a brief chat with him about his dissertation... MoreTuesday, January 9, 2018Dany Guay-Bélanger wins Research Fellowship to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester NYDany Guay-Bélanger, currently in the second year of his MA in Public History, is working with the Canada Science and Technology Museum on its collection of video games going back to the 1980s. The problem, for Dany, is that many of these games are no longer able to be played – the cartridges have... MoreFriday, August 18, 2017Stuart MacKay writes in iPolitics about Confederate statues and historical memoryPh.D. candidate Stuart MacKay has had an article published in iPolitics about Confederate statues and historical memory. Below is a short excerpt with the full article, "Those Confederate monuments are built on racist lies. Tear them down" available online. Despite Lincoln’s victory, Americans have always had a peculiar sort of amnesia when it... MoreWednesday, July 19, 2017Carleton Public History at RavennaBetween June 4-9, the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) held its 4th Annual Conference at the University of Bologna's campus in Ravenna, Italy. The History Department was one of the official sponsors of the conference, which was held alongside the 1st national meeting of the newly founded Associazione Italiana di Public History.... MoreMonday, June 5, 2017Congratulations! History Students Win Medals for Outstanding Achievement at the Undergraduate and Doctoral LevelsThe History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Corbin James Williams (BA Honours in History) for winning the University Medal in Arts at the Undergraduate Level; Siobhán B. Dundon (BA Combined Honours in History and Political Science) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the... MoreFriday, June 2, 2017Sandy Barron wins prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate AwardThe History Department congratulates Sandy Barron, a PhD candidate in History, who won the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Award worth $150,000 over three years. The Vanier is designed to attract and retain world-class PhD students. It is awarded to individuals with both strong leadership skills and very high academic achievement. Barron will... MoreTuesday, April 11, 2017PhD Student Sandy Barron’s Research Featured in Grad Student NewsPhD candidate in History, Sandy Barron, had his research on Disability History in Canada featured in the Current Grad Students news feature on the Carleton Graduate Studies website. Below is a short excerpt of the article by Mitch Jackson entitled "Grad Research: Disability History in Canada". The full article is available online. PhD Student... MoreThursday, March 2, 2017Carleton Welcomes Students From Across Canada for 23rd Underhill Graduate ColloquiumThe 23rd Underhill Graduate Colloquium is around the corner, and Carleton’s Department of History is delighted to welcome student presenters from across Canada to the National Capital. Taking place from March 9-11, 2017, the theme for this year’s conference is “Revealing the Past.” It will be the site of numerous student presentations that... MoreWednesday, October 12, 2016Phoebe Mannell Selected for Public History FellowshipHistory student Phoebe Mannell has been selected as the Garth Wilson Memorial Fellow in Public History. Below is an excerpt from the full article on the Carleton Newsroom page. Ms. Mannell, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Public History at Carleton, will focus her research on the challenges and opportunities involved in curating... MoreThursday, October 6, 2016History PhD Student Melissa Armstrong Pitches a Silver Medal for CanadaThis post originally appeared on the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs site. Pitcher Melissa Armstrong, a Ph.D. History student at Carleton University, helped Canada win the silver medal at the World Baseball Confederation’s World Cup in Gijang City, Korea. Armstrong pitched 5.2 innings in three games, posted a 2.47 ERA and had a... MoreWednesday, August 24, 2016History Ph.D. Student Dorothy J. Smith Featured in “The Whys and Wherefores of the Beechwood Mausoleum”The text below is from the article by Lin Moody entitled "The Whys and Wherefores of the Beechwood Mausoleum" article on the FGPA Grad Student Research page. About nine years ago, Dorothy J Smith toured Beechwood Cemetery as part of an undergraduate Carleton course on Gravestones and Cemeteries: Cultures of Death and Memorialization. She... MoreWednesday, July 20, 2016Ph.D. Candidate Ian Wereley Publishes ArticleIan Wereley, Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, has just published an article in Humanities entitled "Extracting the Past from the Present: Exotic Prizes, Empty Wilderness, and Commercial Conquest in Two Oil Company Advertisements, 1925–2012". Earlier this year, Ian was also selected as a top finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers Research... MoreLoad More → Share: Twitter, Facebook Short URL: https://carleton.ca/history/?p=12760