{"id":15338,"date":"2016-09-14T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:09","slug":"history-professor-jennifer-evans-elected-royal-societys-college-new-scholars-artists-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/history-professor-jennifer-evans-elected-royal-societys-college-new-scholars-artists-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"History Professor Jennifer Evans Elected to the Royal Society\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n History Professor Jennifer Evans Elected to the Royal Society\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Two Carleton professors \u2013 Merlyna Lim (Journalism) and Jennifer Evans (History) \u2013 were elected on Tuesday, Sept. 13 to the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists<\/a>, an honour that recognizes academics who have achieved a high level of excellence in their work at an early point in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is my pleasure to congratulate professors Lim and Evans on their election to the Society\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists,\u201d said Nimal Rajapakse, vice-president (Research and International). \u201cThey have demonstrated excellence throughout their careers and engaged in research that has a direct impact on important social issues. Carleton is fortunate to have such strong early career scholars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evans, a faculty member at the Department of History<\/a> in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a>, expressed her thanks for the honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt demonstrates a commitment to sexuality studies as a way to think about family formation, human rights and the history of emotions and desire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research is focused on contemporary German and European history, the history of sexuality and historical subjectivity. Evans has previously been awarded numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, including a 2013-2015 Insight Grant for her project Photography and the Sexual Revolution<\/em>. Evans\u2019 first book, Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin, <\/em>was published in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story<\/a> from the Carleton Newsroom along with the announcement<\/a> from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Carleton professors \u2013 Merlyna Lim (Journalism) and Jennifer Evans (History) \u2013 were elected on Tuesday, Sept. 13 to the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, an honour that recognizes academics who have achieved a high level of excellence in their work at an early point in their careers. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"award"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15346,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions\/15346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}