The Tri-University Graduate Program in History combines the faculty and resources of three of Canada’s premier universities, University of Guelph, University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University. With over seventy graduate faculty in the program, we are one of the largest History graduate programs in the country and able to provide courses and supervise research across the widest possible range of areas. At the same time, through small seminars, close student-professor relationships, and teaching assistantships and scholarships held at one of our three participating campuses, we provide the atmosphere and collegiality of a smaller, more intimate program.
News
Meet Dr. Eric Vero
Dr. Eric Vero successfully defended his dissertation on February 11 at Waterloo. It was entitled "Freaking Fans: An Oral History of Disability in Fan Spaces."
2025 Essay Prize Winners Announced
Trevor Parsons, PhD candidate at Waterloo, and Elizabeth Spence, MA student at Laurier are the 2025 Tri-U essay prize winners. Winners were announced at the conference on March 1.
Remembering Brianne Casey
Brianne Skylar Casey, a proud Métis woman, scholar and talented artist, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at the age of 23 after a hard fought battle with cancer. Brianne had nearly finished her MA in History at Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier) and was accepted to the PhD program. She was an active part of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History family.
Events
Pride history research in the Tri-U: Graduate students present
Three graduate history students present their research on Pride themes. Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 1:00 pm. Register to be sent the Zoom link.
The making of British Queer History: George Ives and his diary, 1886-1949
Join DRAGEN Lab for an in-person lecture by Dr. Brian D. Lewis from McGill University. George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine “gay rights” organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This paper aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.
35th Canadian Military History Colloquium
The Canadian Military History Colloquium is the largest gathering of military historians in Canada, bringing together academics, students, independent scholars and members of the public to share the latest work in Canadian military history and war and society.