Elections for co-presidents of the Tri-University Graduate Student Association (TUGSA) were held earlier this Fall for the 2025-26 academic year. Brian Gibb, a PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier University, is their representative. The University of Guelph student body is represented by PhD candidate, Aidan Hughes. Vera Zoricic, PhD candidate at Waterloo, continues in her third year as representative for University of Waterloo students.
The mandate of TUGSA is "to support the social, academic, and professional concerns of its membership, and to develop a joint student community between the three campuses of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History," states the 2021 constitution. The membership of TUGSA consists of all part-time and full-time students registered in the MA or PhD History programs of the Tri-University campuses and is automatic upon enrolment in the program.
Plans are in the works for a holiday mixer at Waterloo where students will gather close to the Christmas season. There are also plans to continue the Virtual Graduate Student Research Panels where students are given an opportunity to present their research. These panels began in 2022-23.
Brian Gibb is a Ph.D. student in his second year at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is originally from northern Ontario. His research interests include European expansion in the early-modern period, global history, and political economy.
Aidan Hughes is a PhD candidate in his second year at the University of Guelph. He is interested in the histories of performance-enhancing drugs, body cultures, and masculinities.
Vera Zoricic is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Her research topic focuses on the digitization of the black freedom struggles during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
For more information and to see their complete bios, check out the TUGSA website.
Brian Gibb
Aidan Hughes
Vera Zoricic
