History News

Chelsea Larsson successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Violence, Legal Culture and Social Control: The Records of Scotland’s Justiciary Court, 1493–1558," on 15 October 2021. The study uses an original relational database to quantify and cross-reference data contained in the manuscript records of the justiciary records, often overlooked in favour of the more approachable edited versions.

Dr. Susan Nance's recent monograph, Rodeo: An Animal History (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) is the 2021 winner of the Western Literature Association's Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies, which honours outstanding, single-author scholarly books on the literature and culture of the American West.

Devon Harding, a Guelph BA Hons in history (and later Trent MA in history) has turned his interest in horror, pulp fiction, graphic novels, and gender history into a new podcast series, produced by Seowon Bang.

Our own Dr. Susannah Humble Ferreira is a contributor with a number of (other) very prestigious scholars of Europe published to an edited collection on the Spanish nobility with high-profile Spanish academic press Sanz y Torres:

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh: This Is How I Know by our own Dr. Brittany Luby has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Awards in the children’s illustrated books category. https://ggbooks.ca/

In league with Dr. Catherine Carstairs, a number of our graduate students have published scholarly work on the histories of pandemics, vaccination campaigns, and social justice movements: