News

The Government of Canada has just announced that Dr. Talena Atfield has been named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together). Dr. Atfield is of Kanien'kehá:ka of the Grand River and mixed settler backgrounds and is an assistant professor in the Department of History.

On June 28, in honour of Indigenous History Month, the Tri-University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) and the History Anti-Racism Taskforce (HART) from the University of Waterloo, hosted its final student research panel of the season.

We are saddened to announce that Dr. Patrick Harrigan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former two-term chair in the Department of History, passed away on 13 May 2023. 

Congratluations to Anna Good for being named one of the GRADflix 2023 finalists!

GRADflix gives graduate students a chance to showcase their research by creating a video, moving slide show, or animation that is no more than one minute in length.

Congratulations to History Phd student, Evan Cater, for successfully defending his dissertation on October 21.

Supervised by Dan Gorman, Evan's dissertation is titled "Stand Fast for Peace & Freedom: A Study of Foreign Policy of the British Labour Party in Opposition 1931 to 1940."

Congratulations to History Phd student, Dan Attrell, for successfully defending his dissertation on June 13.

Dan’s thesis, “Intelligentia Spiritualis: Platonism, the Latin Polemical Tradition, and the Renaissance Approach to the Prophetic Sense of History,” was co-supervised by Steven Bednarski and David Porreca.

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Moore, who was awarded the designation University Finalist for the Governor General's Gold Medal for his dissertation.  

History MA student, Megan Hamilton, has been named one of twenty-five finalists in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's (SSHRC) Storytellers competition. 

MA student Megan Hamilton was the winner of the 3-Minute Thesis Competition in Canadian History, run during Heritage Day’s History Symposium on February 27, 2022.  Her winning presentation can be viewed here. 

Congratulations Megan!