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Dr. Susan Nance has co-edited and is an author in a new collection published by University of Washington Press: Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis. It includes research by eight authors who explore episodes in US history in which people put animals in crisis to ask why it was so difficult for people to prevent these crises and, when they came to recognize the crisis, impossible to change course.

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History PhD student Emily Kaliel has just been awarded the H.N. Segall Prize by the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) this week. The H.N. Segall Prize recognizes the best student paper presented at the annual conference of the CSHM. Emily’s winning paper: “’Rather Isolated Communities Remote from Medical Aid’: Changing Public Health Landscapes in Alberta at Mid-Century.”

Congratulations from all of us!

Our own Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Beausaert has just won the Canadian Historical Association’s Teaching Prize in the category of “Early or Alternative Career – Canadian History.”  Dr. Beausaert has been teaching a number of courses over the past several years, including Food History and Canada and the First World War.

Congratulations to our two Doctoral SSHRC winners for 2023:

• Dylan White has won a SSHRC Doctoral scholarship worth $60,000 over 36 months.

We have the following representation from Guelph at Congress 2023:

At the CPA:

Our hearty congratulations to both Catherine Carstairs and Cathy Wilson.

Our own Norman Smith has just published a new book! Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and Li Zhengzhong is published by Routledge. The volume documents the lives and works of well-known "husband-wife writers" who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China’s Northeast and includes English translations of those works.

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Natalie Evans will be facilitating the Guelph Climate Cafe in conjunction with the UofG Sustainability Office, Saturday, April 22nd, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. This will be a climate café and art-making session in honour of Earth Day. Please see here for more information about this event and how to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/guelph-climate-cafe-tickets-596909972797

One of our majors, Zakary Osman has been accepted to the CPA Summer Institute: A one-week program for philosophy undergraduates from across Canada, the Summer Institute will give students from underrepresented groups an intensive immersion in academic philosophy  (https://www.acpcpa.ca/articles/cpa-summer-institute-toronto-may-29-june-4).

Congratulations Zakary!

A HUGE congratulations to Waed Hassan for winning the 3 Minute Thesis College of Arts heat and taking home the $500 prize for her topic on "Voices Beyond Palestine: A Study Case of Refugee Poetics"! Everyone is welcome to join us for the 3MT campus finals on May 3rd to cheer on Waed and all the other amazing finalists. Show your support and witness some incredible research in action!