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
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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!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
SFU History Professor Paul Sedra was on Al Jazeera's "The Stream" yesterday, discussing Egypt's Religious status post-revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0sVPHiClE
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.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Congratulations to Andrea Geiger, whose book, Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928, has won a second award; The Association for Asian American Studies, History Book Award.
Primary Source 2012
The Department of History newsletter
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Luke Clossey's prize-winning book, Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions, was the subject of a roundtable discussion at last year's CHA, where it "unleashed chaos." Read the transcript here.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Congratulations to Ellen Vaillancourt, winner of the 2012 annual SFU Staff Achievement Award in the category of work performance. Ellen is the Coordinator of the Centre for Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures.
"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)
