History News
Alan McDougall on the LIV Golf - PGA Buyout Controversy
Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently spoke regarding the LIV Golf merger with the PGA, and the concept of sportswashing, to CTV News, HuffPost, and the New York Post.
HuffPost - What is 'Sportswashing'?
New York Post - "After shock LIV Golf-PGA merger, what other sports are in the Saudis’ sights?"
Great Workplace Learning Courses (HIST*3480) offered for Fall 2023
Students! Check out the great “Workplace Learning - HIST*3480” courses offered for Fall 2023.
New Book from Susan Nance: Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
Dr. Susan Nance has co-edited and is an author in a new collection published by University of Washington Press: Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis. It includes research by eight authors who explore episodes in US history in which people put animals in crisis to ask why it was so difficult for people to prevent these crises and, when they came to recognize the crisis, impossible to change course.
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Emily Kaliel wins H. N. Segall Prize of Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
History PhD student Emily Kaliel has just been awarded the H.N. Segall Prize by the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) this week. The H.N. Segall Prize recognizes the best student paper presented at the annual conference of the CSHM. Emily’s winning paper: “’Rather Isolated Communities Remote from Medical Aid’: Changing Public Health Landscapes in Alberta at Mid-Century.”
Congratulations from all of us!
Dr. Rebecca Beausaert wins CHA Teaching Prize!
Our own Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Beausaert has just won the Canadian Historical Association’s Teaching Prize in the category of “Early or Alternative Career – Canadian History.” Dr. Beausaert has been teaching a number of courses over the past several years, including Food History and Canada and the First World War.
Catharine Wilson and Catherine Carstairs' new monographs nominated: CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History
Our hearty congratulations to both Catherine Carstairs and Cathy Wilson.
Writing Manchuria: New Book from Norman Smith!
Our own Norman Smith has just published a new book! Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and Li Zhengzhong is published by Routledge. The volume documents the lives and works of well-known "husband-wife writers" who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China’s Northeast and includes English translations of those works.
from the dust jacket:
Norman Smith monograph Intoxicating Manchuria - Russian translation released
Professor Norman Smith's classic monograph, Intoxicating Manchuria, has now been translated into Russian. The translation has been named by one of Russia's top literary organizations as one of ten "Books by and about China" for 2023. Others in the list include some very famous Chinese writers: Pu Songling, Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Zhang Yueran.
Deidre McCorkindale Team Wins SSHRC Engage Grant
Our own Dr. Deidre McCorkindale is part of a team that has won a SSHRC Engage Grant with partners at Huron University and Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society. Congratulations from all of us!!
From the Press Release