Events
May 3-5, Keewatin Graduate Conference, Manitoba
Announcements
The Department is proud to announce that Professor Frank Klaassen, along with Professors Peter Robinson and Brent Nelson from the English Department have received a Canada Foundation for Innovation Grant for their project Textual Communities. Press Release
Congratulations to Professor Bill Waiser for his appointment to the A.S. Morton Chair in History. Press Release
The Department proudly congratulates the following faculty and students for their recent awards: Professor Keith Carlson, whose book The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism won two awards at the recent annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association; Professor Simonne Horwitz, who this Spring won the Provost's Award for Outstanding New Teacher; recently minted PhD Merle Massie, winner of the 2011 prize for the best thesis in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.
The Department is very proud to announce that its own Jim Miller has been awarded the Gold Medal for Achievement in Research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the federal agency's highest honour. The award recognizes Miller's decades of research on relations between aboriginal peoples and the peoples who later settled in Canada. Miller holds the Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations at the University of Saskatchewan. Click here to read more about this prestigious honour and to view a video of the award ceremony. Warmest congratulations, Jim!
We're delighted to announce that Professor Erika Dyck has been named Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the History of Medicine. Dyck is among 134 Chairs announced recently by the CRC program, which was created to attract and retain outstanding researchers in Canadian universities, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. The author of a recent book on LSD in medical experimentation, Dyck's current research explores how political and medical attitudes toward mental illness influenced the evolution of state-funded healthcare, the policy of de-institutionalization, and the history of eugenics. Dyck is the second CRC in the Department, joining J.R. (Jim) Miller (Native-Newcomer Relations). Press Release
The History Department won the Provost's Project Grant for Innovative Practice in Teaching and Learning for its project entitled "Interdisciplinary Studies 101: Examining the Western Humanities and Fine Arts in a Global Context." This grant provided seed money for the department to help develop a 12 credit-unit foundation year course that crosses disciplines and involves faculty from across the College of Arts and Science. The course was offered as a pilot project in 2010-2011.
Congratulations to graduate students Andrew Dunlop and Matthew Mossey, whose posters showcasing their research won 1st and 2nd place respectively in the Humanites/Fine Arts section of the 2010-11 College of Arts and Science Graduate Student Poster Symposium. Their posters can be viewed on the 7th floor of the Arts tower. Well done!
