Prof. Griet Vankeerberghen co-awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Published: 30 September 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Griet Vankeerberghen, who is the co-recipient with Raja Sengupta (Department of Geography) of an Insight Development Grant.

What does it mean to be Afro-Métis? Prof. Adjetey weighs in on the controversy on poet-laureate George Elliott Clarke

Published: 22 January 2020

In an insightful op-ed for the Star on January 21, 2020, Prof. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey explores how Canadian society still denies indigeneity to Black-Indigenous, or Afro-Métis, persons while...

Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Fourth of July

Published: 6 July 2020

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed on Trump’s misguided ideas of Fourth of July in the Washington Post.

Professor Krapfl wins fellowship at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, Germany

Published: 26 April 2018

Professor James Krapfl will spend six months in the academic year 2018-19 as a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. He will be working on his project “The Other 1968: A Cultural History of...

Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum

Published: 31 May 2021

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...

Professor Desmond Morton (1937-2019)

Published: 5 September 2019

The Department notes with great sadness the passing of Professor Desmond Morton, a colleague, friend, mentor, prominent military and social historian, academic administrator, and inspiration to...

Professor Allan Greer awarded 2020 J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada

Published: 15 September 2020

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...

Prof. Travis Bruce receives an FRQSC Grant for a project on Dragomans as cultural mediators in the Medieval Mediterranean

Published: 29 August 2018

Prof. Travis Bruce has won an FRQSC Grant to conduct research on commercial translators and translations between the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities in the Medieval Mediterranean. He is...

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