News

SETS PhD student Stephanie Settle has won the 2016 Doris Lessing Graduate Student Essay Prize for her essay “Power to Disturb: Exploring Selected Works of Doris Lessing Through the Critical Lens of Queer Theory.”

Our Fall 2017 topics for Invitation to History First Year Seminars have been announced!

Dr. Alan Gordon: "Polar Encounters"
Dr. James Fraser: "The Celts"

For more information visit our First Year Courses page (scroll down to HIST*1050, Invitation to History)

Our Sessional Instructor Natalie Evans discusses her recently published book Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Palgrave Macmillan) in a recent article in U of G news. Congratulations Natalie!

Perspectives on Canada 150: Do We All Have Reason to Celebrate?

What if the country threw a party, but not everyone saw a reason to celebrate?

This year will bring numerous official events to mark the sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada.

University of Guelph professor Kim Anderson says many Canadians have reason to throw themselves a 150th birthday party in 2017— even if only to celebrate the perennial anti-fact of not being American, particularly in the new Trump era.

Our Professor Monique Deveaux has (with Vida Panitch) published (January 2017) an edited volume Exploitation: from Practice to Theory (Rowman & Littlefield).

Today historian of the United States, Dr. Susan Nance is interviewed in the L. A. Times about the announcement last weekend that Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Circus, is shutting the show down after over 150 in the business.

This week our acting Department Chair and historian of Canada, Dr. Alan Gordon, is interviewed in The Ontarion.

History: Canadian Confederation celebrates sesquicentennial in 2017

2017 marks the 150th year of the Confederation of Canada; where in 1867, the British North America Act was given royal assent by Queen Victoria, and created the Dominion of Canada.

Dr. Matthew Hayday is a featured speaker in the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences "Big Thinking" lecture series. Professor Hayday will speak February 21 in the Parliamentary Restaurant, Centre Block at Parliament Hill: “Canadian-ness,” Citizen Engagement, and Canada 150: Using History to Inform Policy

As a hockey fan and author, University of Guelph PhD and history instructor Jason Wilson landed his “dream job” when he helped author a book about one of the most storied franchises in sport.