Two professors from the Department of History will be recognized for their achievements at the Convocation ceremony this morning, Wednesday 10 June. Warmest congratulations to Professors Mitchinson and Kroeker; the Department of History is privileged to have two such outstanding scholars and teachers as members.
The History Department at the University of Waterloo is excited to announce the creation of a student award in honour of three retired professors: Patrick Harrigan, John English, and Wendy Mitchinson.
From the Daily Bulletin: Distinguished Teacher Awards for 2015 will be presented to four faculty members at convocation, associate vice-president, academic Mario Coniglio announced at last night's meeting of the university senate.
Professor Ian Milligan's book, Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada (UBC Press, 2014) is one of five scholarly works shortlisted for the the 2015 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize.
Congratulations to Professor Jim Walker, the recipient of this year's Olivier le Jeune Trailblazer Award from the Ontario Black History Society!
The award was granted in recognition of Professor Walker's work in creating the very first Canadian university courses in African-Canadian history at both the undergraduate and graduate level, which he did here at the University of Waterloo during the early 1970s.
Assistant Professor Susan Roy is in Vancouver this weekend for the opening of the city before the city, a major new exhibition about c̓əsnaʔəm, the ancient Musqueam community over which Vancouver is now built. The exhibition has three distinct parts, hosted by the Museum of Vancouver, the Musqueam Cultural Centre, and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
Egg Farmers of Canada has announced a new partnership with the University of Waterloo that establishes Professor Bruce Muirhead as the industry’s first-ever research chair in public policy.
At a ceremony in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on September 29, Professor Whitney Lackenbauer, chair of the Department of History at St. Jerome’s University, was appointed the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group.
Anna Maria Tremonti inteviewed the History Department's Professor Ian Milligan about history, Big Data, and the problems with access and archiving on The Current last week.
Listen to the interview and check out Dr Milligan's website!
Professor John Sbardellati's book J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War has won the Michael Nelson Prize in media and history.