The Tri-University History Program congratulates this year's Essay Prize winners announced during the annual conference on March 5-6 that was held virtually this year.
On December 7, 2020, Mary Anne Gonzales, successfully defended her thesis, "Charitable Communities: Beguines and Charity in Later Medieval Douai, 1218-1360."
Yelena Abdullayeva successfully defended her thesis, "Crafting the Modern Woman in Azerbaijan: Muslim Women, the State, and Modernity, 1900–1939," on August 18, 2020.
Sarah McTavish successfully defended the thesis, "The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web," on September 15, 2020.
Congratulations to History professor, Dr. Ian Milligan and his interdisciplinary research team on the recent $1m grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dr. Kevin James was appointed Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies in the Department of History at the University of Guelph, and as Scottish Studies Foundation chair on June 1, 2020.
Recently, Hayden Bulbrook, a Tri-U History University of Waterloo MA Student, was featured in his local newspaper, the Stratford Beacon-Herald. The article explains his creative response to the limitations brought about by the pandemic.
Dr. Joseph Buscemi, immediately following his successful online PhD defence.
The quotation in Preston Arens' successfully defended thesis title evokes curiousity: "'To Tidy Minds it May Appear Illogical’: How the Commonwealth Evolved from an ‘Imperial Club’ to an International Organisation.”
Earlier this year, Waterloo's Daily Bulletin announced that Preston Arens, PhD candidate won the Peter Lyon prize for his article