History News

We are delighted to announce that two of the excellent teachers in the History department were winners of the College of Arts Teaching Awards this year. Professor Ben Bradley is one of the two winners of the Faculty Teaching Awards and Aidan Hughes is the winner of the PhD student Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Congratulations from all of us!

Controversy has become a recurring feature of FIFA World Cups. In conversation with our own Dr. Alan McDougall, the CBC examines FIFA's varied scandals over the years. Although the World Cup remains the world's premier sporting event, McDougall explains how FIFA's leadership and the current political context have combined to undermine fan's trust in new ways.

More news from Dr. Alan McDougall on the publication of his new book with Tony Shaw, Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches, published by Cambridge University Press.

Matthew Edwards, PhD Candidate in the History Department, has won the 2026 Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health and Medicine of the Canadian Journal of Health History.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ismail Noyan has joined the History Department as Assistant Professor in the History of the Middle East.

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently spoke to Global News about the cultural and economic impacts of the FIFA World Cup coming to Canada. 

Good News!  Dr. Alan McDougall has just co-authored a new book with Tony Shaw:

Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall has recently been a guest on two shows to speak about his new book, Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool F. C.