Associate Professor, Dr. Alan McDougall has completed new book on the politics of sport in cold war-era East Germany: The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany. The book is published by Cambridge University Press this June. Congratulations from all of us!
One of our earliest alumni, Dr David Brewster, went into medical school after completing his Philosophy BA. He has spent his medical career helping impoverished children in many countries and is currently training pediatricians in East Timor. He's profiled in this summer's Arts Alumni newsletter (page 4).
Kyle Bromhall, now in our PhD program, has won the William James Prize for his paper "Is there more to rationality than its sentiment?" which he will give at this December's annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Congratulations Kyle!
History post-doc Cathryn Spence has been studying the Scottish burgh records (essentially town records) from 1560 to the mid-1600s with a focus on court cases involving debt and credit. She found that about one-third of the cases involved married women, sometimes with their husbands, but sometimes on their own. “I think that shows us that at any time in history, people’s lives are not as cut and dried as the laws might suggest,” says Spence. “Life is a bit more complicated.”
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History professor Stuart McCook, the associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Arts, will be on CTV’s popular morning news show Canada AM Friday at 8:05 a.m. discussing coffee rust, which has caused more than $1 billion in damage across Latin America. McCook is conducting a 150-year history of coffee and its relationship with coffee rust, work that has taken him to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. He also writes a blog about coffee and its history. (from @Guelph)
How two of Latin America's greatest writers dramatized Nicaraguan nationhood before, during, and after the Sandinista Revolution.
By the beaches of Luanda, the Russians are building a grand mausoleum to honour the remains of the Comrade President. Granmas are whispering: houses, they say, will be dexploded, and everyone will have to leave. Can the children of Luanda steal the Russians' dynamite, decipher Comrade Gudafterov's letter, and save their homes? With the help of his friends Charlita and Pi (whom everyone calls 3.14), as well as assistance from Dr.
This past Thursday night our own Dr. Jacqueline Murray was named a Woman of Distinction. She received the education and training award. As a history professor and director of the first-year seminar program on campus, the award recognizes her creativity and innovation in teaching, and for being a mentor and role model for students.
Congratulations from all of us!
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