NEWS
2024 Gunn Prize
In their effort to preserve the legacy of Canada’s immigration history and to support continued excellence in research in Canada on migration to and settlement in Canada the Canadian Immigration Historical Society (CIHS) in cooperation with the Locally Engaged Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Department of History at Carleton University jointly offer the Gunn Prize, a $1,000 prize for a fourth-year undergraduate or graduate-level research paper on the historical evolution of Canadian immigration policy or a historical analysis of Canadian immigration related to specific places, events, or communities. The deadline for the annual competition is June 30 of each year. For more Details, see https://carleton.ca/history/awards-prizes-and-scholarships-for-history-students/gunn-prize/.
Kristin Burnett (Lakehead University) and Travis Hay (Mount Royal University) were shortlisted for the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for their book Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity (University of Manitoba Press, 2023).
No Regrets: The Rise and Fall of Sir William Hearst, Brian Tennyson’s biography of the Premier of Ontario during the First World War, will be released by University of Toronto Press in August 2024. Brian is now working on what will definitely be his nineteenth and final book, entitled Bluenose Bluebirds: Nova Scotia’s Military Nurses in the Great War, which will be published by Nimbus, the premier publisher in Atlantic Canada.
Hollis Peirce recently received the Meritorious Service Medal (civil division) for her lifetime achievement in disability advocacy, for things including but not limited to her master’s thesis about academic accessibility in the post-secondary world. She is also working constantly on her own podcast called Twenty-First Century Disability. It focuses on how the twenty-first century is making the social perspective of disability more of a reality. It is not purely a history podcast but seeing as I am a historian it constantly utilizes history in many ways.
The Department of History had the good fortune to welcome two new colleagues in the past academic year. In July 2023, Hussam Ahmed joined us as a social and cultural historian of the Modern Middle East. In January of this year, Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow came to Carleton as a cross-appointment with History and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, bringing her expertise in public history and curatorial studies to both departments.
Former CHA President (1975-1976) Jacques Monet has passed away. Father Jacques Monet of the Society of Jesus passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at Maison René-Goupil in Pickering, ON. Jacques, son of Fabio Monet and Anita Deland, was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, on January 26, 1930.
Kristine Alexander received the 2024 University of Lethbridge School of Graduate Studies Graduate Mentorship Award. In the words of the citation, “Dr. Alexander encourages her graduate trainees to produce high-quality original research, to challenge and believe in themselves, and to connect their studies to their lives and aspirations beyond the university. Her students praise her unique ability to recognize and nurture their potential, and her approach combines intellectual rigour with encouragement, collaboration, and support.”
Inspired by BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ Peter Lang Publishing interviewed Dr. Jatinder Mann as a part of a new series where they interview Series Editors about their favourite books, music, and food they would take up with them to the mountains in their headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Leslie Howsam (Emerita, University of Windsor) has a new Open Access book, Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London. Orme earned a law degree many years before women were permitted to practice that profession in Britain. Her career included lucrative work as a conveyancer, a stint on the 1891 Royal Commission on Labour, editing a Liberal newspaper and (probably) a liaison with another woman. The book is framed as a “research memoir” so that the author’s own career, and an archive story developing over some forty years in a research landscape undergoing transformation, form part of the story.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Jason Russell, Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s. Routledge 2024.