News

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.   

University of Guelph history professor Kevin James has a genuine passion for researching tourism history in the United Kingdom. From 2010 to 2012, James had the opportunity to lend his expertise to the BBC program Grand Tours of Scotland.

This June, Alan Gordon and Susan Nance are featured in a special issue of Histoire sociale/Social History on tourism in Canada with articles on pioneer villages as living history museums, and on horses of the 1920s Calgary Stampede, respectively.

It is with great sadness that we note the passing on July 15 of History Department Professor Emerita Mary Rogers.

Mary completed her education at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for almost a decade at Sweet Briar College before coming to the University of Guelph in 1966. She was trained in medieval religious history.

Congratulations to our own Dr. Alan Gordon for his new publication with UBC Press, Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada (2016)

Dr. Gregory Klages, a long-time instructor for the Department on our main campus and at the Guelph-Humber campus, has just published a new book. Published with Toronto's Dundurn Press, The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson: Separating Fact from Fiction weighs in on the mysterious death of a well-known painter associated with the famed "Group of Seven" artists.

This week Dr. Susan Nance is interviewed in a piece on VICE, "Ringling Bros. Elephant Sanctuary is Hardly a Paradise." The story explains the nature of and controversy over the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circuses' decision to retire the company elephants and keep them at a facility in Florida in which the animals will be bred with artificial insemination and employed in cancer research. 

Professor Sandra Parmigiani of SOLAL was recently featured in Corriere Canadese -- the Canadian-Italian community's daily newspaper. See the article here:http://www.corriere.com/index.php/en/interviste/1269-l-italiano-in-ontar...  and celebrate all things Italian! 

Recent PhD graduate Mark Kaethler has published an article on a course he taught in the English program:: "'See me, and learn to know me': Teaching Lord Mayor's Shows in the Undergraduate Classroom," in This Rough Magic (http://www.thisroughmagic.org/kaethler%20article.html).

SETS Professor Mark Fortier has published a 3rd edition of his book Theory/Theatre: An Introduction with Routledge.