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Compelling Reading: Professor Karyn Freedman on the Huffington Post
Professor Karyn Freedman writes on the Huffington Post Blog about implicit misogyny.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/karyn-l-freedman/steven-galloway-letter_b_1...
Stefan Linquist wins SSHRC Insight Grant
Our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist is principal investigator on a new SSHRC Insight Grant. Congratulations, Stefan!
The use and abuse of function concepts in genomics
SSHRC Insight Grant: $85,279.
It might come as a surprise that only a small fraction of the DNA in our cells (less than 2%) encodes the various proteins that build our hair cells, bone cells, neurons, and all other human cell types. This raises the question of what, if anything, the remaining 98% is doing?
Maya Goldenberg on two major research grants
Two recently-announced research grants include our own Associate Professor Maya Goldenberg. Congratulations, Maya!
Across the Great Divide: Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Paradigmatic Gap
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $58,000 , 2016-2018
Primary Investigator: Dr. Janet Parsons, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital
PLAYWRITING PRIZE
Congratualations to SETS PhD graduate and sessional instructor Tony Berto, whose play Row was a winner in the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition. This is the sixteenth year of the competition for which 267 submissions were received.
SSHRC IMPACT AWARD
Ajay Heble, a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies, was named the SSHRC 2016 Impact Award winner in the partnership category during an event today in Ottawa. He is the first U of G professor to win an Impact Award in this category. Heble will receive a $50,000 grant for research, promotion, knowledge mobilization or related activities.
Recent Grads Talk about their Careers
Recent Grads Talk about their Careers
Each semester the History Department invites some of our recent graduates back to campus to talk about their careers. Our Fall 2016 Gateway Seminar, 27 October, featured Monica Finlay (MA 2011) researcher and analyst for Edelman, the world's largest communication-marketing company; Graham Shular (BAH 2012) occasional teacher in the Thames Valley District School Board; and Robbie Berardi (BAH 2012) teacher/interpreter specialising in blacksmithing at the Waterloo Region Museum.
Our New Post-Doc! Allyson Stevenson
The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. Allyson Stevenson.
Now in Paperback: The People's Game by Alan McDougall
Dr. Alan McDougall tells us that his recent book The People's Game: Football, State and Society has just come out in paperback with Cambridge University Press.
![illsutration of poeple and horse](https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Image%20Invitation%20to%20History.png?itok=yKHgX5yh)
Invitation to History: First Year Course Topics
A new, mandatory course for all first year History majors and minors:
HIST*1050 Invitation to History
Invitation to History introduces students to the basics of the historian’s craft including interpreting primary sources, locating and critically analyzing secondary sources and writing for History. It will provide you with the tools you need for success in your History major, minor or area of concentration. Choose one of the following two classes: