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Dorota Kupis, PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier University was awarded the Tri-U History essay prize at the Tri-U History conference on March 9 at the University of Guelph. Her winning article, “The Political Struggle Behind the Delgamuukw Case: The 1994-1996 Trilateral Treaty Negotiations with the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en,” was published in BC Studies.

May 27, 2024: The article was also announced as runner-up in the BC Studies best paper competition the journal holds each year. The prize is "intended to encourage and celebrate high-quality work on British Columbia, regardless of topic or discipline."

The Tri-University History program congratulates two professors, Dr. Talena Atfield and Dr. Lianne C. Leddy on their Canada Research Chair awards. 

Dr. Leddy holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Dr. Atfield holds the Canada Research Chair in Tentewatenikonhra'khánion (We Will Put Our Minds Together) at the University of Waterloo.

Photo credit: Woodland Cultural Centre

In March 2023, the Tri-University Graduate Program in History (Tri-U) was excited to learn that the Woodland Cultural Centre (WCC) announced Heather George’s appointment as their new executive director. Heather is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Waterloo supervised by Dr. Susan Roy. Heather is Kanien’kehá:ka and Euro-Canadian, her father’s family are from Akwesasne, along the St. Lawrence River.