Our Frederictonian version of Ibn Battuta, Emerita Professor Dr. Sheila Andrew, shares an adventure she had in the early 21th Century Malian town of Timbuktu. “How blondes get haircuts in Timbuktu“
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Dr. Julia Torrie, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department has received a General Research Grant from the Senate Research Committee to pursue her current project entitled “‘Living like God in France’: The German Forces of Occupation, 1940-44.” This project examines soldiers stationed in France during the German occupation, 1940-44. Though attracted by the […]
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Dr. Rusty Bittermann will be a panelist in the “Protest and Civil Liberties” plenary session of the Trudeau Foundation’s 2013 Summer Institute, May 13 to 17. The event is being held on Prince Edward Island this year and the theme is “Protest and Public Policy.” 2013 Trudeau Summer Institute
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
CONGRATS! Dr. Michael Dawson, Professor in the History Department, is this year’s recipient of the Wallace and Margaret McCain Course Release Award to aid in completion of his book Debating Consumerism: Shopping and the Politics of Store Hours in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1980. The award provides support to help faculty complete book-length research publications in […]
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Dr. Carey Watt’s co-edited book is now out in paperback!! [From the publisher:] Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: From Improvement to Development highlights the complexities and contradictions of British and Indian civilizing missions in South Asia. [It] demonstrates how the civilizing mission can serve as an analytical rubric with relevance to […]
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
More congratulations are in order for Dr. Karen Robert who has received a St. Thomas University Global and International Studies Initiative (GISI) Research Grant for her research project “Driving Fear: The Ford Falcon As Instrument and Icon of Argentina’s Cold War Terror: 1960-Present.”
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CONGRATULATIONS to the five members of the History Department who were awarded Research Grants by the Senate Research Committee this year. Dr. Robin Vose took the only Major Research Grant for his proposal “The Inquisitor’s Matrix II: A Survey of Inquisition Manuals in the British Library, London” The General Research Grants went to the following […]
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Professor Brad Cross, from the Department of History, will receive the John McKendy Memorial Teaching Award. Dr. Cross believes that his most successful courses are ones in which he draws attention to what the class, including himself, doesn’t know or might not be able to know. He and the students learn as a collective and […]
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Dr. Michael Dawson will be awarded the inaugural St. Thomas University Early Career Research Award. He has become widely recognized in the fields of Canadian cultural history and Canadian historiography. He was the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council post-doctoral research fellowship and a Standard Research Grant, and he has received five […]
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
This year, four faculty members of the History Department have received research grants from the Research Office, including the Major Research Grant awarded to Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz for her project “Scholars, Captives, and Slaves: The Intellectual Debate on Ransoming Prisoners in Muslim West Africa.” The other recipients are: Dr. Bradley Cross for “After the Bauxite […]
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