Dear members of the History Department, The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) has shortlisted Boyd Cothran’s book Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence (UNC Press) http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12563.html as a finalist for the Best 2014 First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize. The prize recognizes the most […]
Dear members of the History Department, Our colleague Adrian Shubert is one of 6 scholars who are awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowships. This prestigious program is administered by the Canada Council (http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/news-room/news/2015/killam) Here’s a description of Adrian’s research project: “Historian Adrian Shubert is writing about the life and times of a major Spanish military and […]
Dear members of the History Department, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Bettina Bradbury’s book, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) is shortlisted for the François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years. This is the most prestigious of the CHA prizes and honours an outstanding […]
CONGRATULATIONS TO Jonathan Edmondson, Josh Fogel, Paul Lovejoy, Deb Neill, Adrian Shubert, and Marc Stein ON WINNING SSHRC INSIGHT GRANTS CONGRATULATIONS TO Boyd Cothran and Keith Weiser ON WINNING SSHRC INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT GRANTS […]
Dear members of the department, I am sure you will all wish to join me in congratulating our colleague, Jackie Neel, on the publication of her first book, Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome (Brill, 2015) Here’s how the press describes the book: http://www.brill.com/products/book/legendary-rivals-collegiality-and-ambition-tales-early-rome In Legendary Rivals Jaclyn Neel argues […]
Dear members of the undergraduate and graduate programs, It gives us enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Kate McPherson has won the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Faculty Teaching Award. Congratulations Kate for receiving this prestigious award. The award will be presented to our colleague either in March or April meetings of the Council of […]