Our Associate Professor Karyn Freedman has just won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her memoir One hour in Paris: a true story of rape and recovery (University of Chicago Press, US publisher; Freehand Books, Canada p
Our own Alice Glaze has won the Women's History Scotland Leah Leneman Essay Prize 2014 for her essay: "Women and Kirk Discipline: Prosecution, Negotiation and the Limits of Control." This prize is very prestigious and embellishes the Department's role as a preeminent site for Scottish Studies worldwide!
Alice is a third-year PhD candidate studying women's social and economic networks in seventeenth-century Scotland. Her work uses digital humanities tools such as mapping and network visualization to understand women's ties of kinship, trade and support in the town of Canongate, now part of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Her winning essay explores the ambiguous and often contradictory relationship between the Canongate kirk session (local church court) and its female parishioners.
Congratulations from all of us! For more on the prize visit Women's History Scotland
Our own Alice Glaze has won the Women's History Scotland Leah Leneman Essay Prize 2014 for her essay: "Women and Kirk Discipline: Prosecution, Negotiation and the Limits of Control." This prize is very prestigious and embellishes the Department's role as a preeminent site for Scottish Studies worldwide!
Alice is a third-year PhD candidate studying women's social and economic networks in seventeenth-century Scotland. Her work uses digital humanities tools such as mapping and network visualization to understand women's ties of kinship, trade and support in the town of Canongate, now part of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Her winning essay explores the ambiguous and often contradictory relationship between the Canongate kirk session (local church court) and its female parishioners.
Congratulations from all of us! For more on the prize visit Women's History Scotland
Registration for the 2015 Tri-University History Conference is now open! The Conference will be held on March 7 at at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. The theme of the conference is War, Memory and Commemoration.
Visit the Tri-U website to register.
Registration for the 2015 Tri-University History Conference is now open! The Conference will be held on March 7 at at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. The theme of the conference is War, Memory and Commemoration.
Visit the Tri-U website to register.
Our Associate Professor Karen Wendling has published (February 2015) her edited anthology Ethics in Canada: Ethical, Social, and Political Perspectives (Oxford University Press).
Our Associate Professor Karen Wendling has published (February 2015) her edited anthology Ethics in Canada: Ethical, Social, and Political Perspectives (Oxford University Press).
by Teresa Pitman for @Guelph
African Canadians in Union Blue by Richard Reid, Professor Emeritus looks at why so many black Canadians left the safety of home to serve in a foreign war.
Each year Canada honours the legacy of black Canadians during Black History Month in February, and Canadians can gain insight into the experiences of black Canadians and their vital role in the country’s history. But what many people might not know is these contributions extended beyond the border. In the years before the American Civil War, many African-Americans moved to Canada – or, more accurately, the territories that would become Canada in 1867 – seeking a better life without slavery or restrictive laws. Racism was still a reality in Canada, but it was not institutionalized as it was in the U.S.
read the rest of the story @Guelph
by Teresa Pitman for @Guelph
African Canadians in Union Blue by Richard Reid, Professor Emeritus looks at why so many black Canadians left the safety of home to serve in a foreign war.
Each year Canada honours the legacy of black Canadians during Black History Month in February, and Canadians can gain insight into the experiences of black Canadians and their vital role in the country’s history. But what many people might not know is these contributions extended beyond the border. In the years before the American Civil War, many African-Americans moved to Canada – or, more accurately, the territories that would become Canada in 1867 – seeking a better life without slavery or restrictive laws. Racism was still a reality in Canada, but it was not institutionalized as it was in the U.S.
read the rest of the story @Guelph
