Congratulations to Professor Gwyn Campbell on recently being named as a听Distinguished James McGill Professor.听
This award recognizes a late-career scholar's sustained scholarship of world-class caliber and international leadership.
We are delighted at this much-deserved recognition for all Prof. Campbell's achievements over many years!
We enthusiastically announce the publication of听Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China听with Cambridge University Press in December 2024. It is the first volume in Cambridge鈥檚 new series听Antiquity in Global Context.听Profs. Griet Vankeerberghen and Hans Beck have edited this volume, and their long-standing collaboration was the foundation of the Global Antiquities cluster of the Yan P. Lin Centre, evolved and expanded into our Global Pasts Research Group.
As a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Lin Centre鈥檚 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.
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.听 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.
Professor Edward Dunsworth is co-editing a blog series, , 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鈥檚 Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), is one of the series鈥� contributors.
Prof. Judith Szapor will be the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum鈥檚 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 鈥淎ntisemitism, Gender, Mobility: The Impact of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary, 1920-1948鈥�.
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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.
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Geoffrey Wallace has won the 2020 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize of the American Society for Environmental History. He defended his dissertation 鈥淗istory and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700鈥� in 2020.
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Faith and Kendall Wallis are on track to make a major philanthropic impact on McGill students giving.mcgill.ca |
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. L眉thi 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.
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed in the on how this foundational text of the American Revolution could help the United States deal with its many crises.
Professor Lorenz M. L眉thi received the annual academic excellence award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) for his 2020 book as a 鈥渁 paradigm-setting contribution to the field of Cold War studies.鈥�
There is a new book out in November by Sasha Mullally and the IHSP's David Wright, published by McGill Queen's University Press (ISBN 9780228003717).
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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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