History and Classical Studies /history/articles/rss en Prof. Gwyn Campbell named a Distinguished James 大发彩票平台 Professor /history/article/prof-gwyn-campbell-named-distinguished-james-mcgill-professor <p>Congratulations to Professor Gwyn Campbell on recently being named as a聽Distinguished James 大发彩票平台 Professor.聽</p> <p>This award recognizes a late-career scholar's sustained scholarship of world-class caliber and international leadership.</p> <p>We are delighted at this much-deserved recognition for all Prof. Campbell's achievements over many years!</p> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:12:56 +0000 claire.ward@mcgill.ca 2295 at /history PhD Candidate Louise Swaffer wins Early Career Essay Prize /history/article/phd-candidate-louise-swaffer-wins-early-career-essay-prize <p>PhD candidate Louise Swaffer was awarded聽the 2024 <i>Atlantic Studies</i> Early Career Essay Prize for her article聽鈥淲omen鈥檚 Protestant Foreign Mission Work and Settler State Formation in Canada: A Re-examination of the Scottish Diaspora.鈥</p> <p>From the <em>Atlantic Studies</em> announcement:</p> <p>The judges for the 2024聽<i>Atlantic Studies</i>聽Early Career Essay Prize are pleased to select Louise Swaffer as the winner of the Award.</p> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:36:12 +0000 edward.dunsworth@mcgill.ca 1924 at /history Prof. Nerbas Publishes Book on Montreal's Square Mile Neighbourhood /history/article/prof-nerbas-publishes-book-montreals-square-mile-neighbourhood <p>Professor Don Nerbas is co-editor of聽<a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487525699"><em>Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole</em></a>, published by University of Toronto Press, and co-edited by 大发彩票平台 PhD alum and Dawson College Professor Elizabeth Kirkland and聽Dimitry Anastakis of the University of Toronto.聽</p> <p>From the publisher:</p> Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:05:59 +0000 edward.dunsworth@mcgill.ca 1926 at /history Prof. Sabine Cadeau's Book wins Raphael Lemkin Award /history/article/prof-sabine-cadeaus-book-wins-raphael-lemkin-award <p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/more-than-a-massacre/6CD7AA4DC466D44D23F3C9BB1CDE55B1#fndtn-information"><em>More than a Massacre</em></a>聽is a history of race, citizenship, statelessness, and genocide from the perspective of ethnic Haitians in Dominican border provinces. Sabine F. Cadeau traces a successively worsening campaign of explicitly racialized anti-Haitian repression that began in 1919 under the American Occupiers, accelerated in 1930 with the rise of Trujillo, and culminated in 1937 with the slaughter of an estimated twenty thousand civilians.</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:33:14 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1912 at /history Winning history: The Lingan strike and Cape Breton's coalfield revolution /history/article/winning-history-lingan-strike-and-cape-bretons-coalfield-revolution <p><a href="/history/don-nerbas">Professor Don Nerbas</a>聽won the聽<a href="http://cha-shc.ca/prize-winner/don-nerbas/">Best Article Prize in Labour History</a>聽from the Canadian Historical Association for his article聽"鈥楲awless Coal Miners鈥 and the Lingan Strike of 1882鈥1883: Remaking Political Order on Cape Breton鈥檚 Sydney Coalfield鈥.<a href="https://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt"><em>聽Labour Le Travail</em></a>,聽<em>92</em>, 81鈥122.</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:22:33 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1907 at /history Prof. Noelani Arista appointed Tier 2 Canada Research Chair /history/article/prof-noelani-arista-appointed-tier-2-canada-research-chair <p><a href="/history/staff/arista">Professor Noelani Arista</a>聽was appointed to a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Land, Governance and Language.</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:32:03 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1911 at /history Prof. Lynn Kozak leads International Workshop and secures SSHRC grants on horror ecologies /history/article/prof-lynn-kozak-leads-international-workshop-and-secures-sshrc-grants-horror-ecologies <p><a href="/history/lynn-kozak">Professor Lynn Kozak</a>, with Prof. Alanna Thain (English) and Prof. Kristopher Woofter (Dawson College), co-organised a five-day international workshop on Horror Ecologies, supported by SSHRC, the Dean of Arts Development Fund, and the Departments of English and History & Classical Studies.</p> <p>They also received SSHRC Insight Development and Connections Grants for their project 鈥淎ncient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror.鈥</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:27:25 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1908 at /history Prof. Travis Bruce secures SSHRC grant for Medieval Maritime Study /history/article/prof-travis-bruce-secures-sshrc-grant-medieval-maritime-study <p><a href="/history/travis-bruce">Professor Travis Bruce</a>聽received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project 鈥淢edieval Maritime Violence and the Mediterranean Spiritual Economy, 750-1300.鈥</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:28:49 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1909 at /history Prof. Jacob Blanc earns SSHRC grant and Top Professor Award /history/article/prof-jacob-blanc-earns-sshrc-grant-and-top-professor-award <p><a href="/history/jacob-blanc">Professor Jacob Blanc</a>聽was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project 鈥淎 Global History of Never Again.鈥</p> <p style="margin-left:40px">Professor Blanc also recently received the Most Outstanding Professor Award from the Arts Undergraduate Society.</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:30:51 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1910 at /history Dionne recognized for best history article of 2023 /history/article/dionne-recognized-best-history-article-2023 <p>Dionne's article, "Pierre Potier, l'茅criture et le pouvoir 脿 la fronti猫re linguistique de la Nouvelle-France" (<em>Revue d'histoire de l'Am茅rique fran莽aise</em> 75 (2021): 19-40) examines 18th century Jesuit priest Pierre Potier and his engagement with the Wendat language. F茅licitations!</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:03:43 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1900 at /history