Celebrating Tri-U awards and honours June 2024
The Tri-U celebrates several gold medal winners and a finalist, a new professor emerita, and other awards winners in 2024.
The Tri-U celebrates several gold medal winners and a finalist, a new professor emerita, and other awards winners in 2024.
Dr. Nick Richbell successfully defended his dissertation, "'Mr. Spiritualism' Maurice Barbanell and his Life as a Twentieth-Century Spiritualist Propagandist," on February 14, 2024.
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."
Brittany Dunn successfully defended her dissertation, "Grief Amidst the Guns: Death in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front," at Wilfrid Laurier University, Monday, February 5, 2024.
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.
Reflections on the 30th annual Tri-University History Conference, "Conflict, Cooperation and Commemoration: Examining Interactions in the Past."
Conference held at University of Guelph on March 9, 2024.
The University of Waterloo Library acquires Black News and the digitized Amiri Baraka papers with help from the Tri-U's Vera Zoricic, PhD student.
Jennifer McKay, University of Waterloo, successfully defended her dissertation, "Stalin's Last Comrade: Hanna Wolf and the 'Karl Marx' Party College in the German Democratic Republic," on October 31, 2023.
Rebecca MacAlpine, University of Waterloo, successfully defended her dissertation, In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699, on December 13, 2023.
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.