History

Our graduates - making their mark all over the world

Dr. Terry Crowley
B.A. (Bishop's), M.A. (Carleton), A.M. (Duke), Ph.D. (Duke)

Dr. Kris Inwood
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Dr. Kevin James
B.A. (McGill), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)

Dr. Femi Kolapo
B.A. (Ahmadu Bello), M.A. (Ahmadu Bello), Ph.D: (York)

Dr. Douglas McCalla
B.A. (Hons) (Queen's), M.A. (Toronto), D.Phil. (Oxford)

Patricia Bowley, pbowley@rogers.com
research: Agricultural science and economics: soybeans in Ontario, 1920-1940

Lisa Cox, coxl@uoguelph.ca
research: Agricultural Disease Research and Understanding in Canada since 1850

Sharon Weaver, sweaver@uoguelph.ca
Topic: The Back-to-the-land Movement of the 1970s on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and the Gulf Islands of British Columbia

HIST*3470/3970
Independent Reading Course: Irish Immigration to Canada

 
Rural history is integrated into many of the Department's course offerings with respect to a number of historical fields, but especially:

- History 3660, Canadian Social History
- our research seminar course in North American Rural History, History 4620
- our independent reading courses, Hist 4447 and Hist 4490, are often focused on rural history
- our specific rural history courses (see below...)
 

CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

10th Anniversary Season!
The Department's famous Rural History Roundtable is ten years old! Congratulations to Dr. Catharine Wilson, Dr. Douglas McCalla and all the speakers and coordinators who have made the Roundtable a College of Arts institution over the years. The Winter 2012 Roundtable schedule will carry on this great tradition with speakers addressing tourism, consumer culture, rural amusements and more. Get the schedule (.pdf)

Rural History Roundtable Winter 2017 schedule is here!

“Fashioning Place and Self in the Life Writing of a Nineteenth Century Newfoundland Mercantile Family”
Angela Duffett, PhD Candidate, History Department, Queen's University - Thursday, 2 February, 4:00-5:30 PM

Masters Students: