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Recent Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater Family Scholar, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chancellor’s Professor of History and International Affairs Emeritus, Carleton University, 2025-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elected, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, 2019-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Achievement Award, Carleton University, 2017 (for 2018-2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order of Canada, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles P. Stacey Prize, 2015-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finalist (for O<\/em>. D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition<\/em>): Canada Prize in the Humanities, 2015; Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, 2016; John W. Dafoe Book Prize, 2016; and Ottawa Book Award, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Goodenough Association of Canada (Goodenough College), Benefactors\u2019 Award, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select Publications, 2008-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing Stars: Expansionist Jabs Over the Years,\u201d Literary Review of Canada<\/em>, 33, 5 (June 2025): 17-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor, Canada Among Nations 2023: Twenty-First Century National Security<\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) [with Philippe Lagass\u00e9 and Vincent Rigby], xviii, 361.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanadian National Security in a Dark Time,\u201d in Twenty-First Century National Security: Canada Among Nations<\/em> 2023, 1-22 [with Philippe Lagass\u00e9 and Vincent Rigby].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlignment Without Illusions: Canada\u2019s World, 1945-1950,\u201d in Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook, ed., Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict<\/em> (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2024), 17-30 [with Hector Mackenzie].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfterword,\u201d in Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson, ed., North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945-60<\/em> (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023), 341-343.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanada\u2019s Diplomatic Autobiographers and the Burden of History, 1928-1984,\u201d in Greg Donaghy and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds., People, Politics, and Purpose: Biography and Canadian Political History<\/em> (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023), 26-47 [with Robert Bothwell].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Presidents and the Polls: An Inquiry into Canadian Anti-Americanism, 1963-2021,\u201d American Review of Canadian Studies<\/em>, 52, 4 (2022),  381-401 [with Stephen Azzi].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRanking Prime Ministers: Canada in a Commonwealth Context,\u201d <\/span>Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History <\/span><\/i>49, 1 (2021), 22\u201343 [with Stephen Azzi].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Growing Up Autonomous: Canada and Britain through the First World War and into the Peace,\u201d in Tim Cook and J. L. Granatstein, eds., Canada 1919: A Country Shaped By War<\/i> (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020), 234-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCelebrating Greg Donaghy,\u201d International Journal<\/i>, 75, 4 (2020), 464-470 [with Robert Bothwell and John English].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor, Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy: Canada Among Nations 2017<\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), xv, 310 [with Philippe Lagass\u00e9].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Age of Trudeau and Trump,\u201d in Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy<\/em>, 1-16 [with Philippe Lagass\u00e9].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDifferent Leader, Different Paths: Diefenbaker and the British, 1957-1963,\u201d in Janice Cavell and Ryan M. Touhey, eds., Reassessing the Rogue Tory: Canadian Foreign Relations in the Diefenbaker Era<\/em> (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018), 45-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPearson and  Environmental Diplomacy,\u201d in Asa McKercher and Galen Roger Perras, eds., Mike\u2019s World: Lester B. Pearson and Canadian External Affairs<\/em> (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017), 320-41 [with Daniel Macfarlane and Michael W. Manulak].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntolerant Allies: Canada and the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2005,\u201d Diplomacy & Statecraft<\/em>, 27, 4 (2016), 726-45 [with Stephen Azzi].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Prime Minister of the Few,\u201d in Adam Chapnick and Christopher Kukucha, eds., The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy: Parliament, Politics, and Canada\u2019s Global Posture <\/em>(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016), 258-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cParliament Will Decide: An Interplay of Politics and Principle,\u201d International Journal<\/em>, 71, 2 (2016), 328\u201337 [with Philippe Lagass\u00e9].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O<\/em>. D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition <\/em>(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), xii, 424.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor, O. D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 <\/em>(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press and The Champlain Society; both editions, 2013), xx, 55 page introduction, 517 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvaluating Prime Ministerial Leadership in Canada: The Results of an Expert Survey,\u201d Canadian Political Science Review<\/em>, 7, 1 (2013), 13-23 [with Stephen Azzi].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvaluating Prime-Ministerial Performance: The Canadian Experience\u201d, in Paul Strangio, Paul \u2018t Hart, and James Walter, eds., Understanding<\/em> Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives<\/em> (London: Oxford University Press, 2012), 242-63 [with Stephen Azzi].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNational Independence and the National Interest: O. D. Skelton\u2019s Department of External Affairs in the 1920s,\u201d in Greg Donaghy and Michael K. Carroll, eds., In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009<\/em> (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), 11-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Canadian War Museum and the Military Identity of an Unmilitary People,\u201d Canadian Military History<\/em>, XIX, 3 (Summer 2010), 19-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO. D. Skelton: Innovating for Independence,\u201d in Greg Donaghy and Kim Richard Nossal, eds., Architects and Innovators: Building the Department of External Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009\/ Le d\u00e9veloppement du minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res et du Commerce international, de 1909 \u00e0 2009<\/em> (Montreal and Kingston: School of Policy Studies, Queen\u2019s University\/ McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2009), 59-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s International Policies: Agendas, Alternatives, and Politics<\/em> (Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2008) [with Brian W. Tomlin and Fen Osler Hampson], vi, 432.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Completed Graduate Supervisions, 2012-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kieran Alen Yazar McClelland, \u201cThird Place in the Space Race: Securitizing Rhetoric, the Logic of Threat, and the Securitization of the Canadian Civil Space Program,\u201d Ph.D., Political Science, 2024 (Dissertation Committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenn Philip, \u201cAtoms for Peace: Canada, India, and the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 1953-1956,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9e Lauzon-Cherniak, \u201c\u2018If I Had Thousands of Victoria Crosses\u2019: Stretcher Bearer Training in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the First World War,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Catherine Catterall, \u201cThe Kandahar Cenotaph, Commemoration, and the Politics of Place,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Walton, \u201cA Family Home for Toronto\u2019s Aged Poor: The Social Service Mission of Strachan House, 1925-1958,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian McGregor, \u201c\u2018For Good or for Evil\u2019: The Early Atomic Age in Maclean\u2019s<\/em>, Saturday Night<\/em>, Life<\/em>, and The Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, 1945-1950,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan R. Hagborg Wildey, \u201cThe South African Information Service and English-Canadian Journalism, 1949-1960,” M. A. Thesis, History, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Cesare Chiarello, \u201cThe Course and Canon of Left Nationalism in English Canada, 1968-1979,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camus Clowater-Eriksson, \u201cIntegration: Women in the Canadian Air Force, An Audio Documentary,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Carvell, \u201cA People Apart: New Brunswick Acadians, Conscription, and the Second World War,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angus McCabe, \u201cCanada\u2019s Response to the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: An Assessment of the Trudeau Government\u2019s First International Crisis,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Michael Lamancusa, \u201cThe Canadian War Museum\u2019s 1812<\/em>: A Question of Perspective,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Wereley, \u201cImagining the Age of Oil: Case Studies in British Petrocultures, 1865-1935,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2018 (Dissertation Committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claude LeBlanc, \u201cMaurice A. Pope: A Study in Military Leadership,\u201d Ph.D., War Studies, The Royal Military College of Canada, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mallory Pierce, \u201cWhat a Country!\u201d: English-Canadian Newspapers, Humanitarian Exceptionalism, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karly Deanna Hurlock, \u201cFor Peaceful Purposes: Indo-Canadian Relations, Development Assistance, and the Bomb in the 1970s,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larysa Lubka-Lewyckyj, \u201cA Delicate Balance (Although Not Always): Maclean\u2019s <\/em>Views the United States, 1958-1963,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Hogenbirk, \u201cWomen Inside the Canadian Military, 1938-1966,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Marion, \u201cCanada\u2019s Disarmers: The Complicated Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons, 1959-1963,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurtis W. Montgomery, \u201cSaturday Night<\/em> and the New Yorking of Toronto in 1897,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Leonard Weatherall, \u201cCanada\u2019s Defence Policies, 1987-1993: NATO, Operational Viability, and the Good Ally,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan J. Stephenson, \u201cCanadian National Security Culture: Explaining Post 9\/11 Canadian National Security Policy Outcomes,\u201d Ph.D., Political Science, 2016 (Dissertation Committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Valentine, \u201cFootball, Nationalism, and Protectionism: The Federal Defence of the Canadian Football League,\u201d Ph.D., Canadian Studies, 2016 (Dissertation Committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paige Mcdonald, \u201cIf Japan Should Attack: Perceptions of Fear and Threat in British Columbia\u2019s Newspapers, 1941-1943,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Sopko, \u201cAn (Im)Balance of Expectations: Civil Defence in Ottawa, 1951-1962.\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Newport, \u201cThe Outsider: Elizabeth P. MacCallum, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, and the Palestine Mandate to 1947,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meghan Stewart, \u201cPeacekeeping and the Canadian War Museum: Complexity, Controversy, and Challenging Mythology,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Dougherty, \u201cEstablishing Meaning: The Founding Stories of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival,\u201d M. A. Research Essay, History, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Tough, \u201cThe Rhetoric of Dominion Income Taxation and the Modern Political Imaginary in Canada, 1910-1945,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2013 (Dissertation Committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony P. Michel, \u201cThe Nile Voyageurs: Recognizing Canada\u2019s Role in the Empire, 1884-1885,\u201d Ph.D., History, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michel Legault, \u201cLowered, Shipped, and Fastened: Private Grief and the Public Sphere in Canada\u2019s Afghanistan War,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm E. O. Ferguson, \u201cCanada\u2019s Response: The Making and Remaking of the Canadian War Memorial,\u201d M. A. Thesis, History, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17363,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Norman","cu_people_last_name":"Hillmer","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[65],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-201","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-distinguished-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Distinguished Research Professor (History) -international history; Canadian foreign and defence policy; Canada and the United States; British-Canadian relations and the Commonwealth; peace operations and conflict resolution; Canadian politics; political leadership and political culture.","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cambridge)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"norman.hillmer@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26996,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/201\/revisions\/26996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}