Current students

Old building with ivy and flowers around it with reflection of CN Tower in window, by Roberto Ourgant, Unsplash

Laurier’s Provost Office has organized this free, online history symposium on January 15, 2024 entitled, “Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past – Reimagining the Future” which draws together 12 historians and interdisciplinary scholars engaged in research about the legacies of university namesakes, land acquisitions, and histories of exclusion and inclusion at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Registration link below.

Medical Histories. A TUGSA graduate student panel. 25 January 2024. 1:00 pm on Zoom

Thursday, January 25, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Medical Histories Student Research Panel

TUGSA sponsored virtual research panel on Medical Histories. January 25, 2024.

Brandon Mendonca, University of Guelph, successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "From Nature to Newsrooms: Canadian Farm Writing as a Professional Project," November 24, 2023.

On November 29, 2023, Cody Groat successfully defended his dissertation entitled, "Always a Part of the Land: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Histories, and the Commemoration of National Historic Sites, 1919-2019."

Dr. Lianne Leddy (left); GG Mary Simon (right)

Dr. Lianne C. Leddy, history faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, receives the Governor General's history award for scholarly research in 2023.

Headshots of Raymond Li, Vera Zoricic, and Kess Carpenter. Text: 2023/24 Co-presidents. In centre, Tri-University Graduate Student Association

New Tri-U Graduate Students Association (TUGSA) co-Presidents were elected by their peers earlier this Fall 2023.

Interview with Catherine Ramey, PhD candidate at Waterloo who began the graduate student research panels in 2023.

Christopher Dalton Travel Journal, 1825.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Excursions through Scottish travel diaries at the University of Guelph

Graduate History students at the University of Guelph highlight innovative research using unique, hand-written travel diaries that form part of the University’s renowned Scottish Studies Collection. In-person.

Monday, November 6, 2023 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The Making of Public History

TUGSA sponsored virtual research panel centres the research of Tri-University graduate students who examine public history from political, environmental, and cultural perspectives.

Image: White letters on black background: Ghost Walk

Ghost Walk at the Guelph train station, sponsored by the Guelph History Society.

Current students

Symposium: Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past – Reimagining the Future

Medical Histories Student Research Panel

Meet Dr. Brandon Mendonca, University of Guelph

Celebrating with Dr. Cody Groat

Dr. Lianne C. Leddy receives the 2023 Governor General’s history award for scholarly research

TUGSA Elects 2023 - 2024 Co-presidents

Creating opportunities for connection across the Tri-U

Excursions through Scottish travel diaries at the University of Guelph

The Making of Public History

Ghost Walk