History News

Our own Dr. Susannah Humble Ferreira is a contributor with a number of (other) very prestigious scholars of Europe published to an edited collection on the Spanish nobility with high-profile Spanish academic press Sanz y Torres:

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh: This Is How I Know by our own Dr. Brittany Luby has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Awards in the children’s illustrated books category. https://ggbooks.ca/

In league with Dr. Catherine Carstairs, a number of our graduate students have published scholarly work on the histories of pandemics, vaccination campaigns, and social justice movements:

Professor Catharine Wilson has been selected as a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society in recognition of her many contributions to the fields of agricultural and rural history. For more, visit Fellows of the Society.

Dr. Susannah Ferreira has just been announced winner of UGFA Distinguished Professor Award for Innovation in Teaching in the College of Arts. Dr. Ferreira is especially known for her work with our students in specialized archival courses employing medieval manuscripts in the Library's Special Collections. Along with Melissa McAfee, these efforts have resulted in the exhibition Illuminating Life: Manuscript Pages of the Middle Ages, curated by University of Guelph students.

Since this past spring, our own Dr. James Fraser has been a contributor of historical pieces for the Toronto Argonauts football team website, including Big Red and the Double Blue and The Career of Number 55--Joe "King" Krol.