Kyle Bromhall wins prize
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.”
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.”
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
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 
