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The 2024 CHA Prizes
The CHA congratulates all of this year’s prize winners!
Elizabeth Galway gave a lecture at the National WWI Museum and Memorial (in Kansas City) in April. It was delivered as part of the museum’s current exhibit, “The Little War,” which focuses on children and WWI.
Based on her book The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Routledge 2022), the lecture is now available for viewing on the museum’s YouTube channel at: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: The Child Figure in WWI Children’s Literature – Elizabeth Galway (youtube.com).
Thomas Peace, Huron University College, received the 2024 Wilson Book Prize for The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790 (UBC Press, 2023).
Raymond B. Blake has published his 21st book, Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity (UBC Press). The book argues that prime ministers were identity entrepreneurs: regardless of political stripe, they worked to build national unity, forge a citizenship based on inclusion, and define a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stands for and the path it should follow. Through their differences and similarities, they collectively told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state, and portrayed a strong commitment to inclusion coupled with a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms even if that was not the reality of Canada. This book is about narratives and stories and offers a unique telling of Canada’s post–Second World War political history, showing how prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story.
Bryan Palmer, Professor Emeritus, Trent University, delivered the keynote address at “100 Anos de E.P. Thompson: um historiador para os nossos dias,” a conference marking the 100thanniversary of E.P. Thompson’s birth hosted by the Universidade Federal Fluminese, Niteroi, Rio De Janiero. His address was entitled “Reflections on E.P. Thompson: Politics, Passion, and Paradox.”
The History Department at Western University is pleased to welcome Associate Professor Sara Morrison as a new faculty member. Morrison specializes in the early modern history of Europe, England, women, Queenship and Power. Her research focuses on the legal and environmental history of English royal forests and stewardship of pre-modern resources.
Western University History Professor Emeritus, Peter Neary (1938-2024) wrote extensively on the political, economic, and social history of Newfoundland, on many of the artists who painted her land and sea, and on the development of Canada’s policy for veterans of the Second World War. Dedicated to his craft until literally his life’s end, Peter’s final book Out Here: Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn’s Quarterly Reports from Newfoundland, 1936–1946 (with Melvin Baker) was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in June 2024.
Créer des ponts : l’état des lieux de sociétés d’histoire au Canada | Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Historical Societies in Canada
On the occasion of the 2024 CHA Congress, the State of Historical Societies in Canada report was made public at the session held on 17 June. The report presents, in both official languages, the project approach, observations and responses from 14 Canadian historical societies, both professional and citizen-based, pan-Canadian and provincial/territorial. This is the recording of the session.
Memorial University is excited that Dr Piyusha Chatterjee (PhD, Concordia) will be joining us in July 2025 as a historian of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora. We are also pleased that Dr Alessio Ponzio will take up a term appointment in modern European history for the 2024-25 academic year.
Dr. Linda Ambrose is a recipient of Laurentian’s Research Excellence Award for 2023-24. Award-winning historian Linda M. Ambrose has earned an international reputation for her explorations of rural women and women and religion. Her investigation of feminism in contexts like Women’s Institutes in Ontario and the United Kingdom, has resulted in publications including For Home and Country with its revelations about ubiquitous grassroots feminism. Her publications about North American Pentecostalism expose the gendered ambiguities women navigate within patriarchal institutions that espouse egalitarian rhetoric.
Dr. Joseph Patrouch delivered lectures and presentations at the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institutes of Philosophy and History (with online participants from the Institute of History at the Palacky University, Olomouc), the Institute of History of the University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, the Institute of History of the Masaryk University, Brno, the Institute of History and the Chair for Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw, the Institute for East European History (Center for Austrian and Central European Studies), University of Vienna, the project REVENANT of the Cultural Studies Department of the University of Rijeka, and at the “Other and Otherness” workshop in Groznjan sponsored by the Croatian Academy of Fine Arts.
Dr. Behnaz A. Mirzai‘s book The Life of a Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: Autobiography of Mahboob [Beloved] is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.
Terry Copp has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. Professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the founder and director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies, he fostered a rich community of scholarship and cemented Canada’s role in the Second World War. His ongoing work is a legacy to future generations and their knowledge of our past.
Stephen Randall has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. Founder of the University of Calgary’s Latin American Research Centre, and a founding member of the Canadian Council for the Americas Alberta, he has helped develop the field and inspired the creation of interdisciplinary and internationally focused programs. His expertise in myriad issues affecting the United States and Latin America, notably Colombia, have benefited Canada’s foreign policy.
Funding opportunities
The Dr. Margaret Allemang Scholarship in Nursing History promotes the study of Canadian nursing history among students. Candidates can come from different programs. Applications are due March 31. The Vera Roberts Endowment generously funds research, publication or other forms of knowledge dissemination on the history of nursing in northern settings. Grants are adjudicated in December and March each year.
Want to learn more? Full details about these funding opportunities are available at: https://cahn-achn.ca/awards/.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Linnéa Rowlatt, Weathering the Reformation. Climate and Religion in Early Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg. Routledge, 2024.
Jeff A. Webb, The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador. University of Toronto Press, 2024.