{"id":12397,"date":"2015-06-17T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:01","slug":"history-graduate-featured-in-carleton-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/history-graduate-featured-in-carleton-now\/","title":{"rendered":"History Graduate Featured in Carleton Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        History Graduate Featured in Carleton Now\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Recent history graduate Victoria Hawkins is featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/june-2015\/discovering-a-future-in-studying-the-past\/\">June 2015 edition of <em>Carleton Now<\/em><\/a> where she relates how she discovered both a passion for the past and a vocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawkins initially had little interest in history. The past was &#8211; to borrow David Lowenthal&#8217;s phrase &#8211; &#8220;a foreign country,&#8221; and one which she had no interest in visiting. Through encounters with a passionate high school teacher, and a practicum at Canada&#8217;s Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), she discovered not only an enthusiasm for history, but a career path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really love researching, so I thought that\u2019s definitely something that I could do,&#8221; Victoria told Carleton Now. &#8220;The practicum was a really nice thing because I did the background work in the archives, but it illustrated for me how archives can be applied today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, Hawkins begins a two-year Master of Information degree with a specialization in Archives and Record Management at the University of Toronto and we wish her all the best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/june-2015\/discovering-a-future-in-studying-the-past\/\"><em>Carleton Now<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;, or hear Hawkins speak about her time at Carleton and her practicum experience below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History at Carleton\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PhQ9RhZWNZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent history graduate Victoria Hawkins is featured in the June 2015 edition of Carleton Now where she relates how she discovered both a passion for the past and a vocation. 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