News

SETS faculty member Christine Bold received the Prestigious Killam Fellowship. Uncovering the "hidden histories" of Indigenous vaudeville actors such as Princess Chinquilla is the goal of Professor Bold.  Her two-year $140,000 award provides release from teaching and administrative duties so that she can work full time on a research project that she says upends long-held notions of the role Native peoples play in the popular culture of the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Congratulations!

We are happy to announce that Monique Deveaux's CRC has been renewed. Dr. Deveaux will be exploring issues of structural exploitation. For more information, please follow this link.

Jessica Riley, SETS PhD grad, will be taking up a tenure-track position in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg in January 2019. She will be teaching theatre history, script analysis, and dramaturgy. Congratulations, Jess!

In early May, Dr John Walsh traveled to Greece to visit historical monuments and locations with 30 students and alumni. The group visited Athens, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Corinth, Olympia, Delphi, and several Greek islands. Preparations are underway to visit again next year, and John plans to add Crete to the list of destinations.

Samantha Brennan has been interviewed, along with co-author Tracy Isaacs (Western), regarding their new book, Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey.

See their interviews here, in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star

We are pleased to announce that Samantha Brennan has published a new book with Greystone Books, entitled Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey, along with Western University professor Tracy Isaacs. 

Congratulations Samantha!

Two of the 20 winners of the Government of Canada History Awards are from the Hist Department: Amy McBride, and our former MA student, Valeria Mantilla Morales, now a PhD student of the University of Toronto. Congratulations to both.

We are pleased to announce Ken Dorter's recently-published book entitled Can Different Cultures think the Same Thoughts?  A Comparative Study in Metaphysics and Ethics

For further information please click on the link to see the poster.

Worried about choosing a career?  Overwhelmed at where to start the process?  Wondering if anyone will want to hire a history student?  Then join our sessions on Careers for Historians.

On 7 February, students found encouragement, advice and inspiration when they gathered to hear history alumni talk about their careers.  The evening featured