News

The French translation of a novel by Lawrence Hill, creative writing professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies in the College of Arts, has been recognized with a literary prize in France. 

Congratulations to Gus Skorburg on winning a University Research Excellence Award. This award recognizes research achievements of recently tenured faculty members at the University of Guelph, with a particular emphasis on the international impact of a faculty member's research. This is a great achievement and deserved recognition of the quality and reach of Dr. Skorburg's research!

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall recently spoke regarding the LIV Golf merger with the PGA, and the concept of sportswashing, to CTV News, HuffPost, and the New York Post.

HuffPost - What is 'Sportswashing'?

New York Post - "After shock LIV Golf-PGA merger, what other sports are in the Saudis’ sights?"

Students!  Check out the great “Workplace Learning - HIST*3480” courses offered for Fall 2023. 

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: