Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum
Prof. Judith Szapor will be the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She will spend the winter semester 2022 in Washington, D.C., to work on her research project “Antisemitism, Gender, Mobility: The Impact of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary, 1920-1948”.
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Professor Heidi Wendt wins University Research Award
Prof. Heidi Wendt won the 2021 Arts Distinction in Research Award. The prize is awarded annually by the Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) to a McGill faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to her/his field. In 2016, Prof. Wendt published At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire with Oxford University Press.
Geoffrey Wallace (Ph.D. 2020) wins Dissertation Prize
Geoffrey Wallace has won the 2020 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize of the American Society for Environmental History. He defended his dissertation “History and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700” in 2020.
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McGillians on a million-dollar mission
McGillians on a million-dollar mission
Faith and Kendall Wallis are on track to make a major philanthropic impact on McGill students
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Lorenz Lüthi's book was selected as one of "The books one should have read in 2020" (Les livres qu’il faut avoir lus en 2020) by "Le Grant Continent," Paris
The usual Cold War narratives focus on the Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the only driving forces in the international system. Lorenz M. Lüthi offers a radically different narrative, restoring a role for regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national developments shaped the course of the Cold War.
Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and 2021.
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed in the Washington Post on how this foundational text of the American Revolution could help the United States deal with its many crises.
Professor Lüthi wins 2021 book award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS)
Professor Lorenz M. Lüthi received the annual academic excellence award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) for his 2020 book Cold Wars as a “a paradigm-setting contribution to the field of Cold War studies.”
Professor Allan Greer awarded 2020 J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada
The J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal is awarded every two years for outstanding work in the history of Canada. From the start of his career, Prof. Greer was interested in Canada’s colonial roots and its Indigenous Past. His publications span topics as diverse as rural Quebec history, a biography of a Mohawk Saint, and a large-scale interpretation of how Indigenous lands were transformed into property for colonists.
Professor David Wright to be inducted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada in November 2020
Prof. Wright is a specialist in the history of health and medicine. His research focuses on the history of mental disorders and hospitals, and on the transnational migration of physicians in the second half of the twentieth century. Prof. Wright has published and edited numerous books on sick children, disability, and mental health in Canada, the Caribbean, Victorian England, and the modern world in general.
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Podcast with Prof. Adjetey on colonialism, slavery, the identity of Black North Americans, and the James McGill statue.
McGill International Review host Mathieu Lavault interviews Professor Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey to discuss the impact of colonialism, slavery, the identity of Black North Americans, and the James McGill statue. To listen to the podcast, please click here.
Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Fourth of July
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed on Trump’s misguided ideas of Fourth of July in the Washington Post.
Prof. Adjetey on anti-Black racism in Canada in CBC interview on June 7
The violent nature of anti-Black racism in the United States has conveniently served Canadians for a long time to ignore racism in their own country, warns Prof. Adjetey in a CBC interview of June 7. Even if Black people have been a smaller minority in Canada than in the United States, they do not live in a non-racist society.
M. Max Hamon (Ph.D. 2018) wins the coveted 2019 Wilson Book Prize
Congratulations to M. Max Hamon! He just received the 2019 Wilson Book Prize for his first book The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in early 2020.
Professor Opal writes op-ed with physician-father about need to prepare health systems for future pandemics
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written an op-ed for the Globe and Mail on how health systems across the globe need funding and higher levels of preparation to deal with future pandemics.
Professor Andrea Tone dispels Trump myth on Lysol
Media outlets cite Professor Andrea Tone’s research on the history and medicinal use of Lysol to dispel US President Trump’s recent suggestion that injecting or ingesting disinfectants can fight the coronavirus. In response to the president’s remarks, the manufacturer of Lysol issued a press statement, warning consumers to restrict their use of the popular disinfectant to inanimate and exterior surfaces.