News

Our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist is principal investigator on a new SSHRC Insight Grant. Congratulations, Stefan!

The use and abuse of function concepts in genomics

SSHRC Insight Grant: $85,279.

It might come as a surprise that only a small fraction of the DNA in our cells (less than 2%) encodes the various proteins that build our hair cells, bone cells, neurons, and all other human cell types. This raises the question of what, if anything, the remaining 98% is doing?

Two recently-announced research grants include our own Associate Professor Maya Goldenberg. Congratulations, Maya!

Across the Great Divide: Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Paradigmatic Gap

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $58,000 , 2016-2018
Primary Investigator:  Dr. Janet Parsons, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital  

Congratualations to SETS PhD graduate and sessional instructor Tony Berto, whose play Row was a winner in the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition.  This is the sixteenth year of the competition for which 267 submissions were received.

Ajay Heble, a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies, was named the SSHRC 2016 Impact Award winner in the partnership category during an event today in Ottawa. He is the first U of G professor to win an Impact Award in this category. Heble will receive a $50,000 grant for research, promotion, knowledge mobilization or related activities.

Recent Grads Talk about their Careers

Each semester the History Department invites some of our recent graduates back to campus to talk about their careers. Our Fall 2016 Gateway Seminar, 27 October, featured Monica Finlay (MA 2011) researcher and analyst for Edelman, the world's largest communication-marketing company; Graham Shular (BAH 2012) occasional teacher in the Thames Valley District School Board; and Robbie Berardi (BAH ‎ 2012) teacher/interpreter specialising in blacksmithing at the Waterloo Region Museum.

The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. Allyson Stevenson.

Dr. Alan McDougall tells us that his recent book The People's Game: Football, State and Society has just come out in paperback with Cambridge University Press.

A new, mandatory course for all first year History majors and minors:

HIST*1050 Invitation to History

Invitation to History introduces students to the basics of the historian’s craft including interpreting primary sources, locating and critically analyzing secondary sources and writing for History. It will provide you with the tools you need for success in your History major, minor or area of concentration. Choose one of the following two classes:

On September 24th, the Rural Diary Archive celebrated its first anniversary. To date volunteers have transcribed 1,630 diary pages in this ongoing crowdsourcing project.

Webmaster Julia Barclay is a third-year history student and busy uploading additional diaries from across Ontario for people to read, search and transcribe online. Cathy Wilson, Founder and Director of the project, will be speaking to several groups in Wellington County this year as we now have 24 diarists from the County. Check out our diaries for 1867 as we approach Canada’s sesquicentennial.

The Department is very delighted to announce that, beginning in January 2017, Brittany Luby will be joining our faculty. Professor Luby comes to us from Laurentian University.