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Catherine Ramey successfully defended her dissertation on Friday, August 14, 2026. Entitled, "An Educational Mission: Gender, Schools, and Canadian Missionaries in Central Angola, 1880s–1920s," the thesis examines the mission education developed by the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society (CCFMS) in central Angola between the 1880s and 1920s.

With a focus on missionary school curricula, Catherine explores the implications of the gendered and racist dimensions of the CCFMS’s mission agenda, especially industrial trades as “manly” occupations and domestic work as “appropriate” labour for girls and women. Drawing on transnational and global frameworks, Catherine argues that Angolans were integral to the establishment of the West Central Africa (WCA) mission.

Dr. Jacqueline Murray, University Professor Emerita in the Department of History, at the University of Guelph was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in September, 2026.

Dr. Murray's "groundbreaking research in premodern sex, sexualities, genders and bodies has introduced innovative approaches to the study of medieval women and men and established the new research field of premodern men and masculinities," reads the citation.

Megan Blair, University of Waterloo PhD candidate's article published in Gender and History in 2023 was awarded the E. Lisa Panayotidis Memorial Graduate Student Award from the Canadian History of Education Association during their October conference. The prize is one of the Founders prizes which are awarded biennially.

Megan's article examined the gender dynamics of feminist organizing at the University of Waterloo in the 1960s and 1970s. The article was entitled: '''Fraternity for Frustrated Females’: The Gender Dynamics of 1970s Feminist Organising at the University of Waterloo, Canada."