/history/articles/rss en /history/article/phd-candidate-louise-swaffer-wins-early-career-essay-prize <p>PhD candidate Louise Swaffer was awarded the 2024 <i>Atlantic Studies</i> Early Career Essay Prize for her article “Women’s Protestant Foreign Mission Work and Settler State Formation in Canada: A Re-examination of the Scottish Diaspora.”</p> <p>From the <em>Atlantic Studies</em> announcement:</p> <p>The judges for the 2024 <i>Atlantic Studies</i> 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 /history/article/prof-nerbas-publishes-book-montreals-square-mile-neighbourhood <p>Professor Don Nerbas is co-editor of <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 McGill PhD alum and Dawson College Professor Elizabeth Kirkland and Dimitry Anastakis of the University of Toronto. </p> <p>From the publisher:</p> Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:05:59 +0000 edward.dunsworth@mcgill.ca 1926 at /history /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> 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 /history/article/winning-history-lingan-strike-and-cape-bretons-coalfield-revolution <p><a href="/history/don-nerbas">Professor Don Nerbas</a> won the <a href="http://cha-shc.ca/prize-winner/don-nerbas/">Best Article Prize in Labour History</a> from the Canadian Historical Association for his article "‘Lawless Coal Miners’ and the Lingan Strike of 1882–1883: Remaking Political Order on Cape Breton’s Sydney Coalfield”.<a href="https://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt"><em> Labour Le Travail</em></a>, <em>92</em>, 81–122.</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:22:33 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1907 at /history /history/article/prof-noelani-arista-appointed-tier-2-canada-research-chair <p><a href="/history/staff/arista">Professor Noelani Arista</a> 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 /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 “Ancient Drama: Between Tragedy and Horror.”</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:27:25 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1908 at /history /history/article/prof-travis-bruce-secures-sshrc-grant-medieval-maritime-study <p><a href="/history/travis-bruce">Professor Travis Bruce</a> received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project “Medieval Maritime Violence and the Mediterranean Spiritual Economy, 750-1300.”</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:28:49 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1909 at /history /history/article/prof-jacob-blanc-earns-sshrc-grant-and-top-professor-award <p><a href="/history/jacob-blanc">Professor Jacob Blanc</a> was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project “A Global History of Never Again.”</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 /history/article/dionne-recognized-best-history-article-2023 <p>Dionne's article, "Pierre Potier, l'écriture et le pouvoir à la frontière linguistique de la Nouvelle-France" (<em>Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française</em> 75 (2021): 19-40) examines 18th century Jesuit priest Pierre Potier and his engagement with the Wendat language. Félicitations!</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:03:43 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1900 at /history /history/article/hsa-wins-big-aus-awards-gala <p>Congratulations to the <a href="https://hsamcgill.com/">History Students Association</a> on winning the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Most Outstanding Department Association award at the AUS awards gala, as well as awards for Most Outstanding Academics, Most Outstanding Internal Relations and Most Outstanding Events</p> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:05:23 +0000 antony.shruti@mcgill.ca 1901 at /history