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History Department Awards

This year, again, the History Department can recognise a slate of outstanding students for their academic achievements: Chuddy McCarthy Memorial Prize for History in Fourth Year ** Christina Moss Senator John J. Connolly Prize for History in Third Year ** Thomas F. Mackay-Boyce (a.k.a. Fin) I.O.D.E. Prize for highest standing in Canadian History ** Michael […]

History Department Awards

At the end of each year, the History Department awards a number of prizes to its best students. This year, one student consistently showed top-notch historical inquiry in her courses, and has taken three prizes.  Christina Entz deserves high praises for the quality of her work, and will receive the Connolly Prize for History in […]

History seminar students hold video conferences with distinguished scholars

This year, students who are taking Dr. Robin Vose’s History seminar “Inquisition/Histories” have had the opportunity to converse in person, via telephone and Skype video conferencing with prominent international scholars selected for their expertise in topics chosen by the students for their research projects. Accordingly, Louisa Burnham (Middlebury College, VT) participated in a seminar discussion […]

Sara dos Santos publishes an article in The Mirror

Sara dos Santos’s paper, entitled “Re-Imagining France: Beur Protest, Identity, and the French State,” has been accepted for publication in the undergraduate history journal The Mirror.  Hers was one of twelve articles selected out of 86 submissions from across Canada. Congratulations to Sara!

STU Society for History hosts the 4th AUUHCC Meeting

The St. Thomas University Society for History has the pleasure to announce that it is hosting the 4th annual Atlantic University Undergraduate History and the Classics Conference (AUUHCC) at St. Thomas University. Approximately twenty-five student from seven universities in the Maritimes will present their research papers on our campus. The conference will run from Friday […]