The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Greek State 1750-1850, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings Series, January 2012).
Department of History
Welcome to History at SFU. Our award-winning department offers students a rigorous program that covers a broad range of geographic and thematic areas.
Our program is global geographically, with a strength in Canadian history and US, Latin American, British, European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian history. It makes thematic connections with strengths in early modern history, oral history, gender and sexuality, muslim studies, Hellenic studies, religion, aboriginal studies, and labour studies. (More...)
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June 19-23
Conference
On the Edge: Transitions, Transgressions, and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies.
Harbour Centre
SFU Vancouver
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Colloquium by Hiromi Goto "Imperfect Past, Imperfect Present: Speaking Back to History Thru Fiction."
AQ 6229
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Professor Jeremy Brown received an Honourable Mention for the 2013 Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Book Prize for his book City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Professor Roxanne Panchasi is the host of New Books in French Studies, a monthly podcast featuring interviews with scholars of France and the Francophone world about their latest books. You can listen to her first podcast using the link above, or subscribe through iTunes.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Congratulations to Professor Jeremy Brown for winning the 2013 Cormack Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences!
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Michael Fellman Award, in the amount of $1000, has been co-established by the SFU History Department and The Tyee in the memory of former SFU professor Michael Fellman. For more information, check The Tyee website, or the department's scholarships page.
"May Day: A Graphic History of Protest" available for purchase.
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An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity
By Peter Gossage and Jack Little (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh Century Byzantium. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012).
City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide (Cambridge University Press, 2012)