۲ݮƵ University News - Dept. of History /channels/news_feeds/all/term/history/rss en Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop /channels/channels/news/research-group-global-pasts-announces-works-progress-workshop-357038 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize an annual workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion. We are especially eager to involve graduate students in this workshop and to that end the RGGP will offer a series of Global Pasts student stipends to support graduate research.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">24 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:12:02 +0000 webfull 199727 at /channels ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column" /channels/channels/news/isid-congratulates-professor-jacob-blanc-his-new-book-prestes-column-355449 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press.  In <i>The Prestes Column</i>, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/prestes.png?itok=tIKqD0IC" width="160" height="249" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">15 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2024</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:42:54 +0000 webfull 197814 at /channels Professor Dunsworth co-edits series on historians and the climate emergency /channels/channels/news/professor-dunsworth-co-edits-series-historians-and-climate-emergency-333271 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Professor Edward Dunsworth is co-editing a blog series, <a href="http://activehistory.ca/2021/09/historians-confront-the-climate-emergency-series-introduction/">Historians Confront the Climate Emergency</a>, with Prof. Daniel Macfarlane of Western Michigan University. Hosted by ActiveHistory.ca and NiCHE (Network in Canadian History &amp; Environment), posts in the ten-part series will appear on Tuesdays and Thursdays through mid-October. Dr. Philip Gooding, postdoctoral fellow at ۲ݮƵ’s Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), is one of the series’ contributors.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">14 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:14:53 +0000 webfull 172999 at /channels Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum /channels/channels/news/professor-judith-szapor-wins-prestigious-fellowship-united-states-holocaust-museum-331262 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Prof. Judith Szapor will be the <i>Judith</i><i> B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar</i> at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She will spend the winter semester 2022 in Washington, D.C., to work on her research project “Antisemitism, Gender, Mobility: The Impact of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary, 1920-1948”.</p> <p>Congratulations!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/judith.szapor.a.jpg?itok=IbT-jXfw" width="160" height="194" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">31 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 31 May 2021 12:35:28 +0000 webfull 170836 at /channels Professor Heidi Wendt wins University Research Award /channels/channels/news/professor-heidi-wendt-wins-university-research-award-331196 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Prof. Heidi Wendt won the 2021 Arts Distinction in Research Award. The prize is awarded annually by the Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) to a ۲ݮƵ faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to her/his field. In 2016, Prof. Wendt published <em>At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire</em> with Oxford University Press. In her book, she examines evidence for the rise of self-authorized experts in specialized religious skills, rites, and wisdom under the Roman Empire.</p> <p>Congratulations!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/heidi_wendt.jpg?itok=0OascP-T" width="160" height="224" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 25 May 2021 13:48:23 +0000 webfull 170760 at /channels Geoffrey Wallace (Ph.D. 2020) wins Dissertation Prize /channels/channels/news/geoffrey-wallace-phd-2020-wins-dissertation-prize-329380 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Geoffrey Wallace has won the 2020 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize of the American Society for Environmental History. He defended his dissertation “History and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700” in 2020.</p> <p>Congratulations!</p> <p> </p> <p></p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:13:56 +0000 webfull 168765 at /channels ۲ݮƵians on a million-dollar mission /channels/channels/news/mcgillians-million-dollar-mission-328490 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><table><tr><td> <p><a href="https://giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/mcgillians-million-dollar-mission" target="_blank">۲ݮƵians on a million-dollar mission</a></p> <p>Faith and Kendall Wallis are on track to make a major philanthropic impact on ۲ݮƵ students</p> <p>giving.mcgill.ca</p> </td> </tr></table></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:58:23 +0000 webfull 167781 at /channels Lorenz Lüthi's book was selected as one of "The books one should have read in 2020" (Les livres qu’il faut avoir lus en 2020) by "Le Grant Continent," Paris /channels/channels/news/lorenz-luthis-book-was-selected-one-books-one-should-have-read-2020-les-livres-quil-faut-avoir-lus-328032 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The usual Cold War narratives focus on the Soviet-American rivalry as if the superpowers were the only driving forces in the international system. Lorenz M. Lüthi offers a radically different narrative, restoring a role for regional powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe and revealing how regional and national developments shaped the course of the Cold War.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/luthibookcover.jpg?itok=C7WyxEn3" width="160" height="242" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">26 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:59:10 +0000 webfull 167266 at /channels Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and 2021. /channels/channels/news/professor-opal-writes-washington-post-op-ed-thomas-paines-common-sense-and-2021-327615 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/30/2021-is-time-revisit-text-that-inspired-founding-generation/">Washington Post</a> on how this foundational text of the American Revolution could help the United States deal with its many crises.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">12 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:06:42 +0000 webfull 166810 at /channels Professor Lüthi wins 2021 book award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) /channels/channels/news/professor-luthi-wins-2021-book-award-chinese-historians-united-states-chus-327614 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Professor Lorenz M. Lüthi received the annual academic excellence award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) for his 2020 book <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cold-wars/9A581A5A18BE15169D34FE39D2D962E1"><i>Cold Wars</i></a> as a “a paradigm-setting contribution to the field of Cold War studies.”</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">12 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:05:22 +0000 webfull 166809 at /channels