The Tri-U congratulates six students who became PhD Candidates during Fall 2023. Successful completion of their comprehensive exams which includes a written and oral component moves them into the proposal writing stage for their research. This is an exciting milestone achievement.
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 C. Leddy, history faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, receives the Governor General's history award for scholarly research in 2023.
Interview with Catherine Ramey, PhD candidate at Waterloo who began the graduate student research panels in 2023.
Lucy Vorobej successfully defends her PhD dissertation, “By Their Own Efforts”: First Nations Health Policy in Canada, 1940s-1970s."
Dr. Brittany Luby elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
Emily Kaliel, PhD candidate at the University of Guelph, was awarded the Segall Prize by the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) at their annual conference held on 27-29 May, 2023. Emily’s paper was entitled: “’Rather Isolated Communities Remote from Medical Aid’: Changing Public Health Landscapes in Alberta at Mid-century.”
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.
