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THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
... consists of a dynamic group of active scholars and students engaged in cultivating knowledge and providing new appreciations of the past. Undergraduates are organized in the University of Guelph History Society, graduate students number more than forty active on campus at any one time, and postdoctoral scholars are integrated into the life of the Department.
History at Guelph offers undergraduate Honors majors and minors as well as an area of concentration to students in the General B.A. Program. The Department has also been providing high quality graduate instruction at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels for over four decades. Our graduates serve in diverse professions, with many employed at universities across Canada and around the world. Our faculty serves broad constituencies, but specializes in the social and cultural history of the transnational Atlantic world, its rural environments, and the migratory processes that have influenced identity formation and hybridity globally.
Drs. Ian Mosby and Catherine Carstairs of the Department are hosting a groundbreaking conference this June 23rd- 25th: Foodscapes of Plenty and of Want: Historical Perspectives on Food, Health and the Environment in Canada features new research from faculty and graduate students from the department and all over Canada. All are welcome to attend! Please register at: 
The Gay Pride parade in Toronto has often been seen as controversial, but in 2010 it was hit by an unusual controversy when the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wanted to march in the parade with a banner. Others in the city, including some parade sponsors, argued against allowing the group to participate. The parade committee went back and forth between allowing the group and banning them, leaving many people puzzled and confused by the issue. The controversy still swirls as Toronto readies for this year’s Gay Pride parade on June 30. The Toronto Star reported last week that the activist group plans to participate in this year’s Pride festival. “It’s a really complicated issue and not easy to grasp,” says Guelph history student Nicholas Miniaci. He presented a paper on the topic last semester at U of G’s Middle Eastern Scholars Society (MESS), which is supervised by Prof. Renee Worringer.
She was looking for feminism, but what she found was fashion – fashion with a substantial dose of Canadian nationalism mixed in. Recent U of G history grad Elizabeth Gagnon chose to study fashion in Miss Chatelaine magazine for her master’s research project “Looking Good, Looking Canadian.” It’s a short history compared to the publication’s influential parent: Chatelaine magazine, which has been published since 1928, was the inspiration for launching Miss Chatelaine in 1965. “Miss Chatelaine was initially aimed at teens,” says Gagnon, who is currently working on a master’s degree in library and information science at Western University, “but by 1970 the target audience had shifted to young women in their 20s. In September 1979, the young Miss was rebranded as Flare: Canada’s Fashion Magazine.”
