Awards and Recognition

Recent PhD graduate Fannie Dionne (2020) was named co-recipient of the 2023 Prix de la Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française for the journal's best article of the year.

Dionne's article, "Pierre Potier, l'écriture et le pouvoir à la frontière linguistique de la Nouvelle-France" (Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 75 (2021): 19-40) examines 18th century Jesuit priest Pierre Potier and his engagement with the Wendat language. Félicitations!


Professor Martin Sirois received the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty Lecturer category.

Martin's passion for the classics is one reason why Sirois was honoured with the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Faculty Lecturer category) as part of the morning Faculty of Arts convocation ceremony on June 6. Another is the empathy he shows for his students. As a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek, he knows classics courses can be “intense” and most of his students are encountering the ancient world for the first time. Student evaluations credit his good-natured openness for questions, comments, and discussion. Sirois manages to juggle the rigorous nature of the subject matter with a healthy sense of humour. He gets a chuckle out of a comment he often overhears upon entering the classroom on the first day. “It’s something like ‘I wasn’t expecting that sort of teacher.’ I always find that funny — as if I needed to grow a long white beard and wait for many more wrinkles to properly teach the ancient world.”


Professor Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey received both the Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Assistant Professor category

An historian of the United States and of the African diaspora, and recently appointed as a William Dawson Scholar, Professor Adjetey was awarded the 2022 H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching as well as he Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Assistant Professor category. In the word's of Dr. Adjetey "As a scholar who researches and publishes on the history of racial injustice and the ways that enslaved and nominally free Black people resisted such indignities, I have an unwavering commitment to teach and disseminate this knowledge. Central to my research, teaching, and public engagement is the premise that the humanities—and history in particular—are fundamental to ensuring a free and equitable society. To help my students or audience appreciate their place in the world and in relation to historical actors, I encourage them to exercise humility, introspection, circumspection, and always maintain an open and critical mind."


Nathan Ince (recent PhD graduate) received both the Canadian Historical Review prize for best article published in the journal in 2022 for his article "'As Long as that Fire Burned': Indigenous Warriors and Political Order in Upper Canada, 1837–42"


Professor Brahm Kleinman (History and Classical Studies) and Andrea Farran (Religious Studies; Associate Member, History and Classical Studies) were co-winners of teaching awards given by the Arts Undergraduate Society to "outstanding" professor"s. Each year, the AUS recognizes outstanding teaching staff in the Faculty of Arts through its Teaching Excellence Award.  Nominations for the award come out of the student body.


Dr. Alexandra Ketchum (Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill and a PhD graduate from the Department of History & Classical Studies) and to Dr. Kristy Ironside (History & Classical Studies) on being named winner and runner up respectively for the 2023 Principal's Prize for public engagement through media in the Emerging Researcher category!


Congratulations to the History Students Association on winning the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Most Outstanding Department Association award at the AUS awards gala, as well as awards for Most Outstanding Academics, Most Outstanding Internal Relations and Most Outstanding Events

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