The History program at Concordia University of Edmonton is housed within the Department of Social Sciences. The program offers a 3-yr BA concentration.
There are three full time historians (all at full professor rank) in the program: Tolly Bradford, Colin Neufeldt, and John Maxfield; Tolly Bradford is also chair of the Department of Social Sciences. Most students from this program enter Education programs although some have also entered graduate programs across Canada.
Mary Jane MacCallum‘s book Nii Ndahlohke:Boys’ and Girls’ Work at Mount Elgin Industrial School, 1890-1915 made the shortlist for the First Nations Community READ award:
https://fncr.ca/news/first-nation-communities-read-2022-2023-children-and-young-adult-adult-shortlists-announced/
In August, the department welcomed Dr. Murat Umut Inan to the faculty at Vancouver Island University. Dr. Inan specializes in the literary, cultural and intellectual histories of the Ottoman Empire and the wider Islamic World.
The History Department presents: RURAL HISTORY ROUNDTABLE SPEAKER SERIES FALL 2023
Events are in a hybrid format this fall, unless noted otherwise.
To register to attend online, visit: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/roundtable or contact bmendonc@uoguelph.ca.
REMEMBER BRISTOL AND FRENCH CHEESE: CANADIAN CHEESE IN BRITAIN, 1880-1914
Colin Coates, Professor of Canadian Studies at Glendon College, York University
THURSDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER, 4:00-5:30PM EST
MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph
GRANDPA TALLMAN’S ENGINE
Mike Roberts, PhD Candidate, York University
TUESDAY, 3 OCTOBER, 4:00-5:30PM EST
MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph
THE FAMOUS LADY FARMER: MISS JACK MAY IN ENGLAND AND CANADA
Joan K. F. Heggie, Independent Scholar, Middlesbrough, England; & Sarah Carter Professor Emerita of History, University of Alberta
WEDNESDAY, 18 OCTOBER, 2:30-4:00PM EST
Virtual format only
CATTLE AND BLIZZARDS: LESSONS FROM THE BIG DIE-UP IN 1880S MONTANA
Susan Nance, Professor of History, University of Guelph
THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER, 3:00-4:30PM EST
MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph
ESTABLISHING A COLLECTION: DISCOVERING BOTANICAL-ENTOMOLOGICAL MODELS
William Knight, Curator of Agriculture and Fisheries at Ingenium
TUESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER, 4:00-5:30PM EST
MacKinnon Building, Room 132, University of Guelph
SPONSORED BY
The Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History.
Chad Gaffield, University of Ottawa, delivered the inaugural Irving Abella Lecture at Massey College. His lecture was entitled “Machines and Minds: Pursuing Inclusive History in a Turbulent World.”
Funké Aladejebi (Toronto), Kristi A. Allain (STU), Rhonda C. George (York), and Ornella Nzindukiyimana (St F-X) have received the Canadian Studies Network Prize for the Best Article Published in the Journal of Canadian Studies for their article “‘We The North’? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship” (Winter 2022).
Claire Thomson (University of Alberta) received the Canadian Studies Network Prize for Best Dissertation. “Digging Roots and Remembering Relatives” is a compelling examination of the “kinscapes and landscapes” of the Lakota people of Lakȟóta Tȟamákȟočhe (Lakota Country) from 1881 to 1940. It also offers fresh insight on borderland studies, challenging traditional understandings of space, place, kin, memory, and relationship.
Sponsored by the Department of History and Classical Studies, in collaboration with the McGill Black Alumni Association, Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, McGill University, delivered a special lecture (“Father, Son, and Holy Malcolm: Gender and Cold War anti-Black Counterinsurgency in North America”) as part of McGill’s Homecoming Celebration Weekend.
Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum, is a finalist for a 2023 Ottawa Book Prize for Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War.
The following historians who have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez (Trent); Timothy Cheek (UBC); Magda Fahrni (UQAM); Joshua Fogel (York); Krista Kesselring (Dalhousie); Alan MacEachern (Western); and Kristina R. Llewellyn (Waterloo, selected in 2022, postponed induction due to COVID). Congratulations!
The following historian has been elected a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College: Brittany Luby (Guelph). Congratulations!
Sad news from Laurentian’s historians – the passing of R. Matt Bray on 9 June, 2023, at his home in London, Ontario. Matt retired from Laurentian in 2006. He wrote and edited a number of notable publications. A scholarship has been established and donations are being accepted (please reference the R. Matt Bray Memorial History Award at https://laurentian.ca/give/make-an-impact.
There’s an obituary at the Sudbury Star newspaper website: https://thesudburystar.remembering.ca/obituary/r-matthew-bray-1088420470. Here is a longer biography that colleagues compiled, securing Matt’s posthumous alumni recognition at Brandon.
Mark Kuhlberg has received the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–1930. Awarded by the Forest History Society, this prestigious prize honours outstanding scholarship in forest and conservation history.
Review published:
“Central Europe? Eastern Europe? Habsburg Europe? Where are we Today?” Presented at the conference “The Unpredictable Past: Revisiting European, Russian, and Ukrainian Historical Studies”, sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, May, 2023.
“The Paths of Peace: The Holy Roman Empire in 1570 as Seen through the Travels of the Habsburg Court,” Fifth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop, sponsored by the German Historical Institute’s Berkeley branch, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April, 2023.
Public lecture:
“Approaches to the Study of Early Modern Habsburg Women,” Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, June, 2023.
Workshop presentation:
“Global Habsburgs,” International Workshop, “Dynastic History in Global Perspective,” Austrian and Central European Center, University of Vienna, June, 2023.
In June, Joseph Patrouch was a guest researcher affiliated with the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna.
Rukmini Barua (PhD, Gottingen, 2016) joined the Department as an Assistant Professor in 19th and 20th Century South Asian History. Professor Barua was previously at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
Joshua Fogel, Professor of History, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Gilberto Fernandes, Research Associate at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, curated the major public exhibition Movimento Perpétua, documentary the Portuguese diaspora in Canada (https://movimentoperpetuo.ca), the opening of which was attended by Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Olivia Chow, Mayor of Toronto, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal.
We are happy to announce a merger with colleagues in Classics & Ancient History to create the new Department of Historical Studies. We hired two new faculty members – Dr. Stepanie Cavanaugh is an historian of the early modern era specializing in Spain and its global connections. Dr. Cavanaugh joins us from the University of Oxford where she was a Research Fellow in Spanish History at Exeter College. She has an MA and a PhD from the University of Toronto, and a BA from UNB. Dr. Cavanaugh is completing a book entitled “Morisco Conversions: Belonging, Status, and Legal Action in Early Modern Valladolid.” Dr. Willis Monroe is an expert in the history of science and religion in the ancient world. Dr. Monroe joins us from the University of British Columbia where he was Associate Director of the Database of Religious History. He has a PhD from Brown University, and a BA and a MA from SOAS, University of London. Dr. Monroe is completing a book entitled “The Micro-zodiac Texts from Seleucid Babylonia,” to be published with Brill.s
Dr. Angela Tozer and community colleagues are hosting Wolasuweltomuwakon: together in gratitude, a fall gathering centred on decolonial community-building. Invited participants will gather in sharing circles to discuss and explore questions about community building inspired by Loriga García Peña’s Community as Rebellion (2022). Members of the public are invited to join the listening circle.
We are also launching a new Queer History Month Annual Lecture, to be presented this year by Meredith Batt, and entitled, “Queer Lives in the Margins: Len & Cub and other Queer Figures in New Brunswick’s Past.” The lecture will be on Thursday, October 26th, beginning at 7:00pm, at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
The History Department of Memorial University is pleased to welcome Dr Julia Stryker (PhD University of Texas, Austin) as the Ewart Pratt Post-Doctoral Fellow. We are also happy to announce the establishment of a new endowed graduate fellowship in memory of Dr Adam Cahill, a graduate of our department. We hope to hire in the forthcoming year.
From May 28 to May 30, 2024, St. Michael’s College, in the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, will be hosting a conference titled: “Canada, Ireland, and Transatlantic Colonialism: Historical Perspectives. The themes of the conference include– Ireland and the Colonial Apparatus of British North America; Irish Religious Mission and Colonization; Transatlantic Technology and Migrant Communities; and Post-Colonial Nationalism in Canada and Ireland. There will also be a special session on Indigenous-Irish Settler Engagement. Proposals for papers can be sent to Professor Mark G McGowan, Program Chair, at mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca, by Friday December 8, 2023, at 4pm.
Assistant Professor, Oleska Drachewych, was awarded the Faculty of Social Science Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Drachewych was recognized for his exceptional contributions to teaching and learning within the faculty. He demonstrates a keen understanding of how history relates to current public policy discussions and integrates real-world events, such as the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine, into his course. By bridging the gap between historical understanding and contemporary world affairs, Drachewych ensures that his students gain a comprehensive perspective on international relations. https://history.uwo.ca/people/faculty/Drachewych.html.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Nalini Mohabir and Ronald Cummings, eds, The Fire That Time:Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation. Black Rose Books,2023.
Yves Engler, Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Black Rose Books, 2023.
Joseph W. Graham, Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in Context. Black Rose Books, 2023.
Jatinder Mann, Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Margaret McGlynn, The King’s Felon: Church, State and Criminal Confinement in Early Tudor England. Oxford Legal History, 2023.
Francine McKenzie, Rebuilding the Postwar Order: Peace, Security and the UN – System, 1941 – 1948. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.