Three finalists for the 2019 Cundill History Prize were announced last night at an event at Massey College, Toronto. The finalists, all female, are UCL Professor of German History, Mary Fulbrook, Harvard Professor and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, and Julia Lovell, Professor of聽Modern China at Birkbeck College at the University of London. These three extraordinary authors approach difficult subjects, opening sometimes uncomfortable conversations around the past to help us better understand their repercussions today.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Griet Vankeerberghen, who is the co-recipient with Raja Sengupta (Department of Geography) of an Insight Development Grant.
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Published on: 30 Sep 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Societ茅 et culture. The grants will help Prof. Ironside to start her new research project International Copyright Law in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
The Department of History and Classical Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. Dr. Adjetey is a historian of post-Reconstruction United States, specializing in the African American experience and in the intersections of Canadian, American and African diasporas. Before arriving at McGill, he held the W. L. Mackenzie King Fellowship at Harvard University鈥檚 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of History Lectureship. He holds a PhD , MA and M.Phil from Yale and an MA and a BA from the University of Toronto.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
The Department notes with great sadness the passing of , a colleague, friend, mentor, prominent military and social historian, academic administrator, and inspiration to many. Desmond Morton was Hiram Mills Emeritus Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies.
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Published on: 5 Sep 2019
A multilingual scholar, Lorenz L眉thi works on Cold War issues from an international perspective investigating how the structure of the international system interacts with ideologies. His work on the Sino-Soviet split changed the whole field of investigation. His current research focuses on the global Cold War in three distinct but related regions: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia linking Cold War aspects of national and international history across continents.
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Published on: 18 Sep 2018
Hans Beck鈥檚 path-breaking work has led to major innovations in the study of ancient Greek and Roman political culture. Beyond the Mediterranean World, he is an active agent in the development of international research networks in comparative history, including comparisons with ancient China. His prolific output informs contemporary debates about local and global paradigms, the relationship between ethnicity and federalism, and the modes of economic cooperation in federal systems.
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Published on: 18 Sep 2018
Prof. Travis Bruce has won an聽FRQSC聽Grant聽to conduct research on commercial translators and translations between the聽Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities in聽the Medieval Mediterranean. He is particularly interested in studying commercial translators, known as dragomans, who played a mundane but still central role as essential agents in maintaining the foundations of Mediterranean society, facilitating the networks that bound together the ports, markets, and courts of the Mediterranean.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2018
Prof. Heaman has won the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research: The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for her book Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2017). Using extensive archival research from private papers, commissions, the press, and the government, Prof. Heaman shows that the Constitutional Act of 1867 was about the need for Canadians to write a new tax deal that reflected the changing balance of regional, racial, and religious political accommodations.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2018
Prof. John Zucchi has won a SSHRC Insight Grant for his new research project 鈥淟ate Nineteenth Century Failed Group Migrations: Why did prospective migrants subscribe to migration scams?鈥� which focuses on migrants particularly from Quebec and Britain to Brazil. Generally, migrants relied on pre-existing migratory networks. Prof. Zucchi, however, is interested in exploring an understudied group of people, who responded quickly to advertisements that promised unrealistic opportunities.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2018
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Published on: 29 Aug 2018
Professor James Krapfl received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2017-18. The award is given each year by the Faculty of Arts to a professor in recognition of outstanding teaching achievements. Professor Krapfl will accept the award at Convocation on June 4, 2018.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2018
Professor James Krapfl will spend six months in the academic year 2018-19 as a fellow at the Imre Kert茅sz Kolleg in Jena. He will be working on his project 鈥淭he Other 1968: A Cultural History of East Central Europe in the Prague Spring Era,鈥� which compares mentalities and patterns of political engagement in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland at the grassroots level in the late 1960s.聽 Affiliated with the Friedrich Schiller University, the Kolleg is an institute for advanced study focusing on twentieth-century east central and southeastern Europe.聽
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Published on: 26 Apr 2018
Professor Elsbeth Heaman won the 2018 Canada Prize of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (English language category) for her latest book Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017). The prize is "awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada."
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Published on: 20 Apr 2018
In his new book MAD FLIGHT? The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2018), Professor John Zucchi reconstructs the 1896 rush of one thousand Quebeckers to find riches on the coffee plantations in Santos (Brazil), and how this adventure ended for many in poverty, tragedy, and even death. Most survivors returned penniless to Canada. The Mad Flight was widely reported in newspapers at the time, but is completely forgotten today.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2018
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