Our recent PhD graduate, Daniel Harris, has just (February 2014) been awarded a two-year SSHRC postdoc, which he will take up at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Congratulations Daniel!
A University of Guelph history professor and director of Guelph’s first-year seminars program has been awarded a 2014 3M National Teaching Fellowship, considered Canada’s top teaching honour. Jacqueline Murray is U of G’s 15th 3M Fellow. Sponsored by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), the awards recognize exceptional contributions to teaching and learning. ...
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Thanks again to editor Dr. Femi Kolapo (and everyone who contributed to our very productive Fall semester) the January 2014 edition of the Newsletter of the Department is now available!
(by Deidre Healey for @guelph)
Recent graduate Wade Cormack garnered international media attention when he was selected by Scottish golf experts to research the origins of their culturally sacred sport. The 25-year-old is the recipient of the Royal Dornoch Ph.D. Studentship, a unique one-time doctoral research program funded by Royal Dornoch Golf Club and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness.
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This year's Tri-University History Conference is on Saturday March 22 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. The conference provides an opportunity for students and faculty at the University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier and University of Waterloo. This year's theme is Histories and Communities in celebration of the conference's 20th anniversary.
Call for Papers: the online submission form due February 7, 2014 - we invite individual submissions or panels - or you may indicate your availability to participate as Chair. Please apply and register at: www.triuhistory.ca/conference/
We look forward to your submission and registration and to seeing you in March! Please direct questions to susan.roy@uwaterloo.ca
Our Associate Professor Karen Houle has published (December 2013) Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought (Lexington Books, publisher).
Blurb: "…draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy. "
Professor Emerita Dr. Donna Andrew has just published a new book: Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England. The book is published by Yale University Press. Congratulations from all of us!
This week, History and Economics Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. J. Andrew Ross is featured on a New York Times panel investigating "Should Democracies Have Monarchs?" Dr. Ross weighs the pros and cons to explain how the monarchy works in Canada. Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.
Dr. Norman Smith's latest book, Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast, has won the 2013 Gourmand Wine Books Award – Best Drink History Book, Canada (English).
For more on the award visit Gourmand International.
Congratulations from all of us!
Our own Dr. Renée Worringer, Associate Professor, has just published a new book: Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
From the dust jacket: The roots of today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are not solely anchored in the legacy of the crusades or the early Islamic conquests: in many ways, it is a more contemporary story rooted in the 19th-century history of resistance to Western hegemony. And as this compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study shows, the Ottoman Middle East believed it had found an ally and exemplar for this resistance in Meiji Japan. Here, author Renee Worringer details the ways in which Japan loomed in Ottoman consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century, exploring the role of the Japanese nation as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a global order dominated by the West.
The volume is published by Palgrave/MacMillan. Congratulations from all of us!