News

The History department warmly congratulates, with some sorrow, our two University of Guelph Faculty Association Teaching Award winners, who were celebrated in person this past week: Susannah Ferreira and our late friend and distinguished colleague, Alan Gordon.

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.

Congratulations to Maya Goldenberg, who has just been awarded the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science for her 2021 book Vaccine Hesitancy: Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science.

This prize is awarded biennially for the best book, article, or chapter published in English in the area of feminist philosophy of science. The winner receives an award of $500, which is presented at the PSA meeting.

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