History News

Congrats from all of us to Dr. Jason Wilson (PhD '13), who is an instructor for the Department. His dissertation research is now published as a book by UBC Press and has won a prestigious award!

Our Congratulations to Dr. Alan McDougall who is a co-editor on the new book, including his own chapter, "Fußball Internationale: Toward a Global History of GDR Football,"

Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

Our congratulations to Dr. Catharine Wilson on the publication of her new book with McGill-Queens University Press:
Being Neighbors: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960

Our congratulations to Assistant Professor Alex Souchen (appointed in both the Bachelor of Arts & Science and History) who won an Honourable mention for the C.P. Stacey Award for best book in Canadian military history.  Professor Souchen’s book, titled, War Junk: Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada (UBC Press) is "recognized as innovative, compelling and a major contribution to the field.

Professor Catherine Carstairs spoke with CTV News this past week about the complicated issues that arise "when one considers the way health and esthetics have become entwined in dentistry."  This and other findings about the history of dental health in Canada are part of a research project now published by McGill-Queens University Press as The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and

Congratulations to Professor Karen Racine on seeing her wonderfully detailed interdisciplinary article become a thing in the world! "History and the Transatlantic Imagination" interrogates the histories of emotions and objectivity through an analysis of Robert Southey’s History of Brazil and the tension between literary and literal authority in the 1810s.

Find it in Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs' edited collection, Latin American Literature in Transition, 1800-1870 (Cambridge UP, 2022).

Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, Professor Kevin James, spoke on CJOY this past week. Acknowledging the Queen as a person "with extraordinary dignity," he explains how her visit to Guelph in July of 1959 generated so much excitement in the Royal City.

Dr. Deidre McCorkindale's chapter, "Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century Schools," is part of an award-winning collection from University of Toronto Press: Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi.

The History Society is welcoming new undergraduate members who are studying history or who are even just interested in history! Our bi-weekly meetings allow history students to meet in a non-academic setting to socialize and get to know each other. Events throughout the year like a trip to the archives, documentary and discussion, as well as ‘meet the professors’ encourage history students to learn about campus resources and networking opportunities. Follow us on Instagram for the latest updates and more information @historysocietyuofg !