History News

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 !

Congratulations to Royal Historical Society & 3M Teaching Fellow, Dr. Jacqueline Murray, on the publication over the summer of two edited collections! 

The Male Body & Social Masculinity and Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence have both been published by The Centre For Renaissance & Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto. What a wonderful accomplishment to cap off twenty-one years at the University of Guelph as you embark on quests beyond our campus! 

The Department of History, the Tri-University Graduate Program, and the University of Guelph community are all deeply saddened by the death of Professor Alan Gordon, who passed away on the morning of July 25, 2022.  Alan was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2021; nevertheless, he continued to be a source of good humour, friendship and insightful advice, all the while continuing to work away at his own research and mentor his graduate students. His passing leaves a huge hole in our hearts.