Welcome to the Department of History.

Welcome to the Department of History.

Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Guelph. We are 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 offered high quality graduate instruction at the M.A. and Ph.D levels for over four decades. Its graduates serve in many walks of life and many are employed at universities across Canada and around the world. Guelph’s History department serves diverse constituencies, but it specializes in the social and cultural history of the broader Atlantic world, its rural environments, and the migratory processes that have influenced identity formation and hybridity on a larger global scale.

Faculty members in the History department are distinguished by the large number who have won teaching awards and research grants. All are active, committed scholars devoted to fostering interest in an alluring and enduring subject. We are proud of History @ Guelph and of our setting:

* the University of Guelph has been consistently ranked at or near the top as the best comprehensive university in Canada by Macleans magazine (Canada’s equivalent to Time) since the beginning of its annual university survey

* the University of Guelph has also been consistently ranked as Canada’s top comprehensive research university (or near to the top) in twentieth-first century independent national surveys

* the City of Guelph is rated among Canada’s ten best places to live by Chatelaine magazine

* Canada is one of the very best countries in which to live according the United Nations’s human development index

Explore the opportunities that the Department of History offers through this site and through the university’s online undergraduate and graduate calendars.