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Historians’ Corner | La rubrique Histoire
CHA’s Digital Newsletter | Le bulletin d’information numérique de la SHC
July 2020 | juillet 2020 Issue | numéro 1.4
News from Actualités des
Departments départements Opportunities Opportunités Publications Publications récentes
News from Departments
University of New Brunswick: Heidi MacDonald (Dean of Arts, UNBSJ) and Greg
Introducing the UNB Atlantic Kealey (Professor Emeritus, UNBF) co-chaired UNB’s
Digital Scholarship Website Working Group on the Principles of Naming or Re-
naming University Places. Effective immediately, the
The Atlantic Canada Studies Centre at the University Ludlow name will be removed from the Faculty of
of New Brunswick, located on the traditional lands Law building and a permanent display examining
of the Wolastoqiyik, the people of the beautiful and George Duncan Ludlow’s history with slavery and
bountiful river (Wolostoq/St. John River), has launched Indigenous schooling in early New Brunswick will be
a new website: UNB Atlantic Digital Scholarship; www. installed in the Faculty of Law building.
atlanticdigitalscholarship.ca; and by Twitter @Atlantic-
CanUNB. University of Lethbridge:
Carol Williams, Katelyn Mitch-
It is our contribution to a growing scholarly conversa- ell (MA CSPT UofL 2019) and
tion on the Atlantic Region, its peoples, and how histo- Carly Giles ( BSc UofL 2018)
ry can inform our contempo- published a three part report for the University of
rary social, political, and cultural Alberta’s Parkland Institute, “Political Challenges and
sensibilities. This site provides Digital Frontiers: Reproductive Health and Services in
links to wonderful new projects Southern Alberta.”
underway by members of our
research community, as well Kristine Alexander (CRC Tier II) delivered the keynote
as hosts a directory of links to “A Different Kind of Lost Generation? Girls, Modernity,
other digital history resources and the First World War” at the Literatures of Moder-
in the region. By centraliz- nity Distinguished Speaker Series/Association for Re-
ing and making accessible search in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) Annual
various archives, libraries, Symposium at Ryerson University.
online databases, and digital
projects, we wish to provide a The Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT),
platform and bridge to some directed by Carol Williams, reported many success-
of the excellent work being es by affiliated historians/researchers. This included:
done in Atlantic Canadian a community oral history workshop collaboration
Studies. with the Milk River Historical Society in October
2019; multiple screenings of We are the Roots: Black
For more information on the website, contact Richard Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination
Yeomans, PhD Candidate in history and webmaster, on the Canadian Prairies an award winning film
richard.yeomans@unb.ca; or Elizabeth Mancke, Pro- produced by Jenna Bailey (Adjunct Assist Profes-
fessor of History and CRC in Atlantic Studies, elizabeth. sor-History Department, UofL) in collaboration with
mancke@unb.ca. Deborah Dobbins and David Este https://vimeo.
com/301482344; and a SSHRC Insight Grant (2019-
Bonnie Morgan, Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and 2023) awarded to sports and oral historian, Carly
Faith in Newfoundland (McGill-Queen’s University Adams (Professor, Kinesiology, UofL) and Darren
Press, 2019) won the Atlantic Region Clio prize in 2020. Aoki (adjunct Assoc. Professor-History, UofL, Lectur-
The book is based on her UNB doctoral thesis super- er in World History, UPlymouth UK) for collaborative
vised by Dr. Linda Kealey, Professor Emerita, UNB. research,”Transforming Canadian Nikkei:
Co-Creating Histories of Southern Alberta,
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1950 to the Twenty-First Century.”The Australian, Canadian, and CHPF will also be undertaking the digitization of
New Zealand Studies Network over 4000 images of Quebec and the East Coast of
(ACNZSN): The ACNZSN was cre- Canada also photographed by George Hunter. These
ated and managed by Dr. Jatinder images will be presented in both French and English
Mann (Assistant Professor, Department of History, and will be valuable resource in documenting Cana-
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR). It aims da’s history from the early 1950’s to the 1990’s.
to bring together scholars working in the three fields
of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Kwantlen Polytechnic Uni-
Studies. The ACNZSN also has a blog. versity: Dr Maddie Knick-
erbocker joins the Depart-
SSHRC & Concordia’s Centre for ment of History as a full-time teaching professor,
Oral History and Digital Storytell- specializing in Indigenous and Canadian History. Dr
ing: SSHRC recently announced Knickerbocker holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser
that a transnational team of 24 his- University and works on Stó:lō cultural heritage and
torians and 35 institutional partners political activism. We are delighted to welcome her
have received a $2.5 million part- to the department.
nership grant for the project “Dein-
dustrialization & the Politics of Our QUESCREN: The Quebec
Time.” With Brexit, Trump, and the rise of right-wing English-Speaking Commu-
populism in many deindustrialized areas of Europe nities Research Network
and North America, it is urgent that we understand the (QUESCREN) at Concordia University is pleased to
historical roots of our political moment in transnational announce the release of a new QUESCREN work-
perspective. ing paper by Dr. Dorothy Williams: “A Posthu-
mous Honour for a Conspicuous Life: Dr. Gaspard
The project is based at Concordia’s Centre for Oral in Quebec.” It recounts the life of a little-known
History and Digital Storytelling, with Steven High Black doctor, Dominique Gaspard, who migrat-
as Principal Investigator, but includes a number of ed to Quebec where he became part of its En-
CHA members or fellow travellers, including Dimitry glish-speaking community.
Anastakis, L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian
Business History at the University of Toronto; Lucie Mount Saint Vincent Uni-
Morisset, Canada Research Chair of Urban Heritage at versity: Faculty member
UQAM; Lachlan MacKinnon, Canada Research Chair in Jonathan Roberts has pro-
Postindustrial Communities at Cape Breton University; duced a podcast series on pandemics https://anchor.
Petra Dolata, an Associate Professor of History at the fm/pandemicspastandpresent
University of Calgary and a global specialist in energy
transitions; and Rebecca Dolgoy, curator at Ingenium - University of Guelph: Call
Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation. The first for Papers - RWSA Triennial
two PhD fellowships are being held by Fred Burrill and Conference
Eliot Perrin at Concordia.
A Virtual Conference hosted by the University of
The Canadian Heritage Pho- Guelph May 11-15, 2021
tography Foundation: The “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum”
Canadian Heritage Photogra-
phy Foundation is excited to begin two large digitiza- The theme “Kitchen Table Talk to Global Forum”
tion projects this summer. The first is the digitization emphasizes how conversations, relationships, and
of 2000 photographic negatives taken by the pho- food shape rural communities. This theme allows for
tographer George Hunter during his travels to British the consideration of the ways that gendered, sexual,
Columbia. Partly funded by the University of British ethnic, and racial identities affect personal power,
Columbia’s History Digitization Project through the class consciousness, individual choice, and commu-
Irving K Barber Learning Centre, images of BC’s beau- nity development. These subjects lend themselves
tiful landscape, culture and industry from the 1950’s to to the exploration of rural activism, social justice,
the early 2000’s will be preserved and made available innovation, politics, business development, cultural
to the public through the CHPF website. In addition, expression, self-governance, and collective experi-
funded in part by Library and Archives Canada through ences — both historical and contemporary — in local,
the Documentary Heritage Communities Program, regional, national, and global settings.
2University of Regina Dr. also available on the Manitoba Food History Project
Donica Belisle of the History website at https://www.manitobafoodhistory.ca/pre-
Department at the Univer- serves-pod/2020/05/21/episode-7-pauls-original.
sity of Regina has received a SSHRC Insight Grant to
study the transnational history of Canadian sugar. Camp food plays a big part of the summer camp
experience. While parents and staff often celebrate
She has also published the first of her sugar articles, this camp experience as an ‘escape’ for campers
in Global Food History, called “Eating Clean: Anti-Chi- from the luxuries and anxieties of the modern world
nese Sugar Advertising and the Making of White and a time for campers to experience some ‘sim-
Racial Purity in the Canadian Pacific” (Vol. 6, Issue 1, ple living’, camp food has rarely been so simple or
pp. 41-59). In addition, she has published a number so disconnected from the modern world. Interact
of shorter pieces on food, shopping, and COVID-19. with Camp Cuisine, the latest of the MFH Stories of
These can be accessed through her website at www. Food in Place, on the Manitoba Food History Project
donicabelisle.com. website at https://www.manitobafoodhistory.ca/story-
maps/2020/02/05-camp-food.
Ryerson University Ryerson’s De-
partment of History is delighted to St. Thomas University: Michael
welcome Dr. Jennifer Tunnicliffe to Boudreau (St. Thomas Universi-
a tenure-track position in the mod- ty) is the new editor of the Jour-
ern history of human rights. nal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur
le Nouveau-Brunswick, an online, multi-disciplinary
University of Manitoba – Centre for Human Rights journal featuring peer-reviewed articles, invited es-
Research: Past CHA President and historian Dr. Adele says, and book reviews in both English and French.
Perry has been
appointed director York University:
of the Centre for Tenure-Stream Appointments
Human Rights Research (CHRR) effective July 1, 2020.
She takes over from founding director and law profes- ■ Leila Pourtavaf: Global Public History
sor Karen Busby, who has held the position since 2012. ■ Alan Corbiere: Indigenous History
■ Abril Liberatori: Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Ca-
Perry intends to build on the past work of the re- nadian Studies, will be based in the Department of
search centre and on the university’s research History
strengths in “the ways that Indigenous rights and Promotions
human rights overlap”. She will also explore questions ■ Carolyn A. Podruchny was promoted to Full Pro-
of care and gender politics. fessor
The Manitoba Food History Project : Brendan Kelly’s book, The Good Fight:
The Manitoba Food History Project, a Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diploma-
SSHRC-funded digital and public history cy (UBC Press, 2019), was awarded this
project led by Janis Thiessen (University year’s $10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for
of Winnipeg History), Kent Davies (Uni- the best book on Canada, Canadians,
versity of Winnipeg Oral History Centre), and or/Canada’s place in the world.
and Kimberley Moore (University of Win-
nipeg Oral History Centre), publishes a podcast series Brendan is currently a Junior Fellow at the Bill Gra-
(Preserves) and an ArcGIS Story Map series (Stories of ham Centre for Contemporary International History
Food in Place). at the University of Toronto and the Book Review
Editor of International Journal.
Winnipeg, Manitoba is the home of one of the most
popular snacks in North America, the Pizza Pop, but a University of Victoria: The De-
lot has changed since Paul Faraci created the cheese- partment has created a video to
filled turnover nearly sixty years ago, including the congratulate the graduates that
snack itself. Paul’s Brandon, Anthony Faraci, tells the are missing convocation in this History Department
story of how he and his father brought back the orig- Convocation Video. It has a particularly great finale.
inal recipe, which they now dub Paul’s Original Pizza
Snack. Listen to this latest episode of Preserves pod-
cast on Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitch- 3
er. Transcript, sources, photos, and audio downloadUVic’s Emeritus Professor Wendy Wickwire won the ■ Dr. Liza Piper (Canadian history) received the Fac-
Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social ulty of Arts Research Excellence Award for Associ-
Sciences Canada Prize for her book At the Bridge: ate Professors: well-deserved recognition for her
James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging. Her exceptional record of research and publication in
book also won the CHA Clio Prize for British Colum- environmental history.
bia. Wendy Wickwire’s book also had a major feature
in the Vancouver Sun. ■ Dr. Jeremy Rossiter (Classical Archaeology) is
the 2020 inductee into the University of Alberta
Assistant Teaching Professor Kristin Semmens has Museums Curator Hall of Fame. Dr. Rossiter has
won the CHA’s inaugural prize for Excellence in been the Curator of the W.G. Hardy Collection of
Teaching with Primary Sources. Ancient Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities in
the Department of History and Classics for “more
Departmental members have been in the me- or less continuously” since he joined the Faculty
dia, particularly Mitch Hammond whose new text of Arts in 1986. Through more than three decades
book Epidemics and the Modern World has him in of generous service, he has been dedicated to the
regularly in the news, most recently in the Vancouver collection and his passion for using it to educate
Sun and Victoria News. students and the public about the Classical Medi-
terranean world. You can read more about the mu-
Emeritus professor John Price has had a series of Op seum here: https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics/
Eds on the history of racism in Canada in the online wg-hardy-classics-museum.html
magazine Tyee. White Supremacy in ‘British’ Co-
lumbia, and the China Syndrome; Racism Is on the Three colleagues have received notable external
Rise. And Asian Canadians are Fighting Back; OpEd: awards in recent months.
Anti-Asian Racism Has Gone Global. So Has the Battle
against White Supremacy. David Zimmerman has ■ Dr. Crystal Fraser (Canadian history) has won
been in the Victoria News on the changing defini- the John Bullen Prize from the Canadian Histori-
tions of VE Day, Paul Bramadat on the impact of cal Association, awarded to “the outstanding Ph.D.
Covid 19 on different spiritual traditions and John thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian
Lutz in the Vancouver Sun on a profile of writer Anne university.” Dr. Fraser is a Gwichyà Gwich’in scholar
Cameron and on radio on the extended closure of the who defended her dissertation in our department
BC Archives. in September 2019. She is currently an assistant
professor in History and Classics and the Faculty of
At UVic’s History Department the chair is changing Native Studies at U of A.
July 1 from John Lutz to Jason Colby while Gradu-
ate Advisor will change from Sara Beam to Penny ■ Dr. Robert A. Smith (History of Science) has been
Bryden. Georgia Sitara has been converted from a awarded the 2020 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for His-
sessional employee to a tenure track Assistant Teach- torical Astronomy. The Doggett prize is awarded
ing Professor. Sara Beam has been promoted to Full biennially by the Historical Astronomy Division of
Professor. the American Astronomical Society to an individual
who has significantly influenced the field of the
University of Alberta: Effec- history of astronomy over a whole career.
tive July 1, 2020, the Program
in Religious Studies will ■ Dr. Sarah Carter (Canadian history) is the recipi-
come into History and Classics, as a third plank to ent of the 2020 Killam Prize in the Humanities, for
the degrees offered through the department. We are her “substantial and distinguished contribution,
looking forward to the synergies this will generate for over a significant period, to scholarly research in
our researchers and students over the coming years. Canada.” See also, https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/fac-
ulty-news/2020/may/sarah-carter-wins-2020-killam-
We are delighted to be able to report in this bulletin prize-in-the-humanities,-first-ever-at-the-universi-
some recent awards to our faculty members. ty-of-alberta.html
■ Dr. Heather Coleman (Russian history) received
our University’s Award for Excellence in Graduate
Teaching for her accomplishments as a graduate
teacher and mentor.
4Publications Le professeur Mark Jurdjevic a publié deux volumes
édités en 2019. Le premier, Machiavelli: Political, Histori-
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy. Between Fit- cal, and Literary Writings comprend des traductions de
ness and Death: Disability and Slavery lettres, de la poésie, des pièces de théâtres, d’histoire et
in the Caribbean. University of Illinois de théorie politique écrit par Machiavel. Le deuxième, Flo-
Press, 2020. rentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli est
une sélection de textes sur la culture politique florentine
Linda Kealey, “North America from pendant la Renaissance. Le professeur Jurdjevic a rem-
North of the 49th Parallel, II” in Teresa Meade and porté une prestigieuse bourse de recherche de la fonda-
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds., A Companion to Global tion Guggenheim en 2019-20 pour son nouveau projet sur
Gender History, 2nd ed, forthcoming, Wiley Blackwell, l’amitié entre Machiavel et François Guichardin (Francesco
Fall 2020. Guicciardini) et leur cercle littéraire et politique.
Amy Shaw & Sarah Glassford, eds. Making the Best La professeure Gillian McGillivray a été nommée au co-
of it: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland mité de rédaction de la revue « The Americas: A Quarterly
during the Second World War, UBC Press, 2020. Revue of Latin American History » pour un mandat de six
ans, et elle a été élue secrétaire de la section « Brésil » de
Virginia Torrie, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A His- la Conférence d’historiens de l’Amérique Latine (CLAH-
tory of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. AHA) en janvier 2020.
University of Toronto Press, 2020.
La professeure Suzanne Langlois du campus Glendon
Donica Belisle, Purchasing Power: Women and the et le professeur Marcel Martel du campus Keele de York
Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture, University of ont organisé un colloque en l’honneur de notre col-
Toronto Press, 2020. lègue Roberto Perin intitulé « Identité, communauté et
diversité ». C’était une belle célébration de ses contribu-
Donald B. Smith, Seen but Not Seen: Influential tions à la veille de sa retraite.
Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to
2020, University of Toronto Press, 2021. Université de Montréal : Prix du
livre politique 2020. La profes-
Actualités des départements seure émérite Denyse Baillar-
geon est lauréate du Prix de la
présidence de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec pour son
Université Laval : Le professeur ouvrage Repenser la nation. L’histoire du suffrage fémi-
Jocelyn Létourneau a fait pa- nin au Québec. Le professeur Mathieu Arsenault a aussi
raître La Condition québécoise. été récompensé pour sa thèse de doctorat (Université
Une histoire dépaysante aux éditions du Septentrion. York, 2019) finaliste du prix de la fondation Jean-Charles-
Au cours de l’année 2019-2020, il occupait la Canada Bonenfant.
Fulbright Chair in International and Area Studies, de
même que le poste de Visiting Bicentennial Professor Le 9 juin 2020, Mme Stéphanie Claudette St-Pierre,
of Canadian Studies à l’Université Yale. Ph.D., a soutenu avec succès sa thèse de doctorat « Terre
de nos aïeux : La représentation du territoire historique
Campus Glendon de l’Université dans l’historiographie canadienne-française » dirigée par
York : Le département d’histoire du Thomas Wien (U. de Montréal) et Michel Bock (U. Ot-
Campus Glendon de l’Université York tawa).
est fier d’annoncer l’embauche de la
professeure Amanda Ricci. Elle a reçu Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
son doctorat en histoire de l’Univer- & Université de Sherbrooke : Les
sité McGill en 2015 où elle a soute- professeur.es François-Olivier Do-
nu sa thèse: « There’s no Place Like Home: Feminist rais et Louise Bienvenue ont lancé
Communities, Social Citizenship and (Un)Belonging un appel à contributions
in Montreal’s Long Women’s Movement, 1952-1992. » pour une journée d’étude
Membre du groupe d’histoire de Montréal, elle est intitulée « Profession histo-
en train d’écrire un livre qui s’intitule : « Citoyennes riennes? Les femmes dans la production et la diffusion
globales: les féministes canadiennes aux Conférences des savoirs historiques au Canada français, 19e et 20e
mondiales sur les femmes, 1975-1985. » Elle en- siècles ». Les propositions pour cette rencontre
seigne des cours en histoire canadienne, histoire des prévue le 28 mai 2021 doivent être soumises 5
femmes et histoire orale. d’ici le 1 août 2020.
erUniversité de Moncton : Publications récentes
Philippe Volpé, chercheur
postdoctoral à l’Institut
d’études acadiennes de Jocelyn Létourneau. La Condition québé-
l’Université de Moncton a coise. Une histoire dépaysante. Septentrion,
reçu la médaille d’or du Gouverneur général en 2020.
humanités (Doctorat), pour sa thèse intitulée « À
Mark Jurdjevic. Machiavelli: Political, His-
la frontière des mondes : jeunesse étudiante et
torical, and Literary Writings . University of
mouvements d’Action catholique en Acadie de la
Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
première moitié du 20e siècle » (Université d’Ot-
tawa, 2019) dirigée par Michel Bock.
Mark Jurdjevic. Florentine Political Writings from Pe-
trarch to Machiavelli. University of Pennsylvania Press,
2019.
N’oubliez pas de visionner le premier webinaire de la série Enga-
gés de la SHC sur YouTube intitulé « L’Autochtonisation de l’en-
seignement de l’histoire ». La discussion est animée par Mathieu
Arsenault, professeur au département d’histoire de l’Université
de Montréal et les panélistes sont Leila Inksetter, professeure au
département de sociologie de l’UQÀM ; Jonathan Lainey, conser-
vateur, cultures autochtones au Musée McCord ; et Brian Gettler,
professeur d’histoire à l’University of Toronto.
A qui appartient cet Whose workspace
espace de travail is this? Send
? Envoyez vos your answers to
réponses à Michel Michel Duquet
Duquet (mdu- (mduquet@cha-
quet@cha-shc.ca) shc.ca) by July
avant le 15 juillet en 15 with “office”
indiquant « bu- in the subject
reau » dans l’objet line; a winner will
du message ; un be drawn from
gagnant sera tiré among those
au sort parmi ceux who answer cor-
qui auront répondu rectly. The winner
correctement. Le will receive a $50
gagnant recevra un discount on their
rabais de 50 $ sur 2021 CHA mem-
son adhésion 2021 à bership.
la SHC.
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