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.
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.
Megan Blair, University of Waterloo PhD candidate's research is published in Gender and History. Her research examines the gender dynamics of feminist organizing at the University of Waterloo in the 1960s and 1970s. Article title: '''Fraternity for Frustrated Females’: The Gender Dynamics of 1970s Feminist Organising at the University of Waterloo, Canada."
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.