{"id":11865,"date":"2024-01-23T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11865"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:03:38","slug":"chad-gaffield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/chad-gaffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Gaffield"},"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                        Chad Gaffield\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"163\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Chad-Gaffield.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Chad-Gaffield.png 163w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Chad-Gaffield-160x195.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad Gaffield was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 9 \u201cin recognition of his impressive accomplishments as a researcher, a visionary leader, and a spokesperson for the social sciences and humanities in Canada.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad Gaffield is one of Canada\u2019s foremost historians. After eight years as president the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), he returned to the University of Ottawa where he is a professor of History and University Research Chair in Digital Scholarship. Prof. Gaffield\u2019s teaching and research focus on the great transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special attention to the interrelationships of demographic, economic, cultural and social changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has won many awards for his scholarship and innovations related to computer-based, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional and international collaboration. The University of Ottawa named him Researcher of the Year in 1995 and Professor of the Year in 2002. He was also presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2003) and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was awarded the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal by the Royal Society of Canada (2004), the Prix de la francophonie by the Province of Ontario (2007), and the Antonio Zampolli Prize by the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (2011). In 2007, the Canadian Association of University Teachers presented him with its Distinguished Academic Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M2mnQt349rc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Chad Gaffield<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Gaffield was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 9 \u201cin recognition of his impressive accomplishments as a researcher, a visionary leader, and a spokesperson for the social sciences and humanities in Canada.\u201d Chad Gaffield is one of Canada\u2019s foremost historians. 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