History News

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.

Dr. Brittany Luby has won the 2022 Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Picture Book Award for Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh/This is How I Know. 

The book is described as a "lyrical story-poem," and is written in both Anishinaabemowin and English. This is Luby's first time nominated for a Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award.

Dr. Brittany Luby has won the Network in Canadian History and Environment Prize for Best Book.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Jaqueline Murray's new edited collection published by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies: The Male Body and Social Masculinity in Premodern Europe.