History News

Dr. Alan McDougall appears as the historical expert (filmed in a former Nazi prison in Berlin!) in the documentary Stasi FC.

Our S24 URA job postings are now live!

All applications must go through the Experience Guelph website. The best way to find the postings on the (slightly wonky) Experience Guelph website is by typing in keywords:  

Former History Department Masters student, Robert Flewelling, has worked with the Guelph Civic Museum to transform his Major Research Paper for us into a museum exhibit! It runs until February. 

from the website: 
What do John Galt and the Canada Company, the Upper and Lower Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38, a canal-building enterprise, and current (and future) land claims all have in common?

Our own Dr. Ben Bradley speaks to CBC Vancouver News about B.C tourism and the controversy over a trip to the city of New Westminster appearing as a prize on popular American gameshow, The Price is Right.

In October, alongside the folks at Ontario Barn Preservation, who have been working with Dr. Kim Martin in one of our Experiential Learning courses (HIST*4070) for several years, Dr. Martin was awarded an Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Heritage Award.

Our own Dr. Karen Racine has published a new article in The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: “Deferred But Not Avoided: Great Britain and Latin American Independence."

Our own Dr. Evren Altinkas has published "Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity,” an article in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently contributed to the article, “More Than a Game: Football and Politics Collide as Israel-Hamas War Grips the Sport” featured on Alarabiya News.

The Champlain Society has awarded our own Dr. Catharine Anne Wilson this year’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Ontario HIstory for her book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book "immerses the reader in Ontario’s farm neighbourhoods from the pioneer era into the 1950s.

The Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History 2023

The Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book or monograph published on Scottish History in 2021 and 2022 has been awarded to:

Neil McGuigan, Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2021. ISBN: 9781910900192.

For more, visit the Centre for Scottish Studies