McGill University News - Dept. of History

Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop

webfull — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:12:02 +0000

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.

Published: 24 April 2024

ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"

webfull — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:42:54 +0000

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 The Prestes Column, 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.

Published: 15 February 2024

Professor Dunsworth co-edits series on historians and the climate emergency

webfull — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:14:53 +0000

Professor Edward Dunsworth is co-editing a blog series, Historians Confront the Climate Emergency, with Prof. Daniel Macfarlane of Western Michigan University. Hosted by ActiveHistory.ca and NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), posts in the ten-part series will appear on Tuesdays and Thursdays through mid-October. Dr. Philip Gooding, postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), is one of the series’ contributors.

Published: 14 September 2021

Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum

webfull — Mon, 31 May 2021 12:35:28 +0000

Prof. Judith Szapor will be the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar 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”.

Congratulations!

Published: 31 May 2021

Professor Heidi Wendt wins University Research Award

webfull — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:48:23 +0000

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 McGill faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to her/his field. In 2016, Prof. Wendt published At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire 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.

Congratulations!

Published: 25 May 2021

Geoffrey Wallace (Ph.D. 2020) wins Dissertation Prize

webfull — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:13:56 +0000

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.

Congratulations!

Published: 9 March 2021

McGillians on a million-dollar mission

webfull — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:58:23 +0000

McGillians on a million-dollar mission

Faith and Kendall Wallis are on track to make a major philanthropic impact on McGill students

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Published: 11 February 2021

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

webfull — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:59:10 +0000

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.

Published: 26 January 2021

Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and 2021.

webfull — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:06:42 +0000

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed in the Washington Post on how this foundational text of the American Revolution could help the United States deal with its many crises.

Published: 12 January 2021

Professor Lüthi wins 2021 book award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS)

webfull — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:05:22 +0000

Professor Lorenz M. Lüthi received the annual academic excellence award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) for his 2020 book Cold Wars as a “a paradigm-setting contribution to the field of Cold War studies.”

Published: 12 January 2021