The J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal is awarded every two years for outstanding work in the history of Canada. From the start of his career, Prof. Greer was interested in Canada鈥檚 colonial roots and its Indigenous Past. His publications span topics as diverse as rural Quebec history, a biography of a Mohawk Saint, and a large-scale interpretation of how Indigenous lands were transformed into property for colonists. For a longer portrait, see .
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Prof. Wright is a specialist in the history of health and medicine. His research focuses on the history of mental disorders and hospitals, and on the transnational migration of physicians in the second half of the twentieth century. Prof. Wright has published and edited numerous books on sick children, disability, and mental health in Canada, the Caribbean, Victorian England, and the modern world in general.
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51吃瓜网International Review host Mathieu Lavault interviews Professor Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey to discuss the impact of colonialism, slavery, the identity of Black North Americans, and the James 51吃瓜网statue.
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Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed on Trump鈥檚 misguided ideas of Fourth of July in the .
The violent nature of anti-Black racism in the United States has conveniently served Canadians for a long time to ignore racism in their own country, warns Prof. Adjetey in a interview of June 7. Even if Black people have been a smaller minority in Canada than in the United States, they do not live in a non-racist society. Because racism in Canada is more subtle, it is easier to overlook its manifestations.
Congratulations to M. Max Hamon! He just received the 2019 Wilson Book Prize for his first book The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the M茅tis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840鈥�1875, published by in early 2020.
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written an op-ed for the on how health systems across the globe need funding and higher levels of preparation to deal with future pandemics.
Media outlets cite Professor Andrea Tone鈥檚 research on the history and medicinal use of Lysol to dispel US President Trump鈥檚 recent suggestion that injecting or ingesting disinfectants can fight the coronavirus. In response to the president鈥檚 remarks, the manufacturer of Lysol issued a press statement, warning consumers to restrict their use of the popular disinfectant to inanimate and exterior surfaces.
Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written op-ed for the on how American Presidents have dealt with epidemics or even triggered them in the past. The op-ed locates the current office holder in a larger historical context of leadership in times of crisis.
Congratulations to Professor Elsbeth Heaman and Professor Brian Young (emeritus)! Their books and have just been nominated for the 2020 , along five other books.
Yaroslav Gouzenko has won the Undergraduate Essay Prize of the Canadian Association of Slavists for his paper 鈥淪haimiev and the Tatarstan Model: A Successful Highjack,鈥� which he wrote in Professor Kristy Ironside鈥檚 class on Russia in the 1990s (HIST406). The prize is open to students in all disciplines related to Eastern Europe across Canada.
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In an insightful for the Star on January 21, 2020, Prof. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey explores how Canadian society still denies indigeneity to Black-Indigenous, or Afro-M茅tis, persons while accepting it in the case of Canadians of mixed Indigenous-European ancestry.
With the retirement of Connie DiGiuseppe in late 2019 as Area Manager for Student Affairs, the administrative centre of History and Classical Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Jewish Studies says a farewell to a superb and beloved administrator. In her 31 years at McGill, Connie DiGiuseppe worked for the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Student Affairs Area, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Anthropology, and eventually for the administrative centre of four departments.
Congratulations to Prof. Allan Greer, who was recently won the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award for an outstanding book in social science history and the Wilson Book Prize for the best exploration of Canadian history.
