The Department of History's Jim Blight and janet Lang challenge millennials to abolish nuclear weapons, in their publication Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning and Catalyst.
The University of Waterloo and York University have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past.
Prof. Steven Bednarski has won the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’s prestigious D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. This is the second year in a row that the Society has bestowed this prize upon a faculty member from the University of Waterloo.
Steven Bednarski is a social historian of late medieval crime, gender, and natural environment at St. Jerome’s University, a public Roman Catholic university federated within the University of Waterloo, where he also Co-Directs the Medieval Studies Program.
Douglas Hunter, a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow in History worki
Two celebrated scholars from Waterloo’s Department of History were recently named to the Order of Canada, which recognizes people in all sectors of Canadian society for outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the country.
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Jill Campbell-Miller graduated with a PhD in History more than a year ago and now teaches at St. Mary’s University in Halifax. But here on campus, she is still celebrated for outstanding doctoral work with the recent announcement that her dissertation is among six international finalists for 2015 Council of Graduate Studies/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Societé canadienne des humanités numériques announced the winner of their 2016 Outstanding Early Career Award: Ian Milligan, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group!
On this Sunday's episode of the CBC's Unreserved, host Rosanna Deerchild interviews History MA Candidate Jesse Thistle about his research into Métis history. This week's episode, 'Taking the first steps on the road to reconciliation', also includes interviews with Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Chair Justice Murray Sinclair and journalist Martha Troian.
How will historians study the 1990s or the 2000s? They'll need to use web archives: old websites, from garish GeoCities pages to academic sites to discussion boards, that form a major part of our cultural record. The question of how we can make sense of this sheer abundance of data rests at the heart of Professor Ian Milligan's two new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grants, carried out in collaboration with researchers across a half dozen universities in Canada and the United States.
Susan Roy awarded for “remarkable contribution” to understanding First Nations’ history
The Governor General of Canada has honoured a Waterloo history professor for her “remarkable contributions” to the understanding of First Nations’ history.