Dr. Lianne C. Leddy, history faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, receives the Governor General's history award for scholarly research in 2023.
New Tri-U Graduate Students Association (TUGSA) co-Presidents were elected by their peers earlier this Fall 2023.
Interview with Catherine Ramey, PhD candidate at Waterloo who began the graduate student research panels 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.
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.”
Thanks to Tri-University History Graduate program's partner, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC), Dr. Barrington Walker's lecture delivered on Wednesday, March 22 is now available. Barrington is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University as well as Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion there.
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.
