News & Events
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.
Past News & Events
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
April 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.
April 2013
Primary Source 2012
The Department of History newsletter
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.
March 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.
February 2013
The Fourth annual Ian Dyck Memorial lecture was presented by Dr. James Epstein. "The American Back Country As Seen From Britain: A Cultural Metaphor."
March 3013
SMACKDOWN Faculty Debate
November 2012
Egyptian Uprisings: A Panel with Dr. Paul Sedra and Mr. Joel Roberts
October 2012
As part of the Travel in History lecture series, professors Hilmar Pabel and Luke Clossey present "Missions Possible: Jesuit Travellers from Nijmegen to Nanjing"
October 2012
Travel in History lecture by Jack little: ''From the Picturesque to the Industrial to the Therapeutic: Union Steamship Company Views of the British Columbia Coast, 1889-1958’
September 2012
Jack Little presents "The Public and Private Lives of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière: Writing a Life History as Anti-Biography"
September 2012
Professor Mark Leier talks to The Province: Labour Day's history represents a battle both past and present.
August 2012
History professor Willeen Keough has been elected chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, beginning in September for a 3 year term.
July 2012
Congratulations to History PhD Aaron Goings, who won the Dean's Medal last week for his thesis "Red Harbor: class, violence, and community in Grays Harbor, Washington."
June 2012
Michael Fellman In Memoriam; an essay by professor Christopher Phelps.
August 2012
Why the Language of Revolution Matters; an op-ed piece in Jadaliyya by SFU History professor Paul Sedra.
July 2012
Congratulations to professor Andrea Geiger for winning the 2012 Theodore Saloutos Book Award of the Immigration and Ehtnic History Society for her book "Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928."
March 2012
Professor Paul Sedra's article, published by one of Egypt's largest English-speaking newspapers, on the passing of The Coptic Orthodox Pope over the weekend:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/718951
March 2012
The COLOR of AMERICA HAS CHANGED:
How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California 1941-1978.
By Prof. Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley.
March 2012
The History department's 3rd Ian Dyck Memorial lecture.
Cottage Economies. Gender, household and poverty: the English rural poor c.1790-1850.
March 2012
The Lighter Branches of Agriculture: Gender, Class and Nation in the Promotion of Farming for Women in Britain, 1890-1930. By Dr. Nicola Verdon, Sheffield Hallam University.
March 2012
Professor Paul Sedra talks to CBC's BC Early Edition about the anniversary of Egypt's uprising. Has any progress been made?
January 2012
"Bodies at Prayer in Early Modern England" by Dr. John Craig
December 2011
PhD student Bonnie Reilly Schmidt talks to Macleans magazine about women in the RCMP, in the article The RCMP: a Royal Canadian disgrace. Watch for an upcoming special on CBC's "The Current" based on her research of women in the RCMP.
November 2011
Former MA Student Julia Smith wins Eugene A. Forsey prize.
June 2011
Professor Alec Dawson wins the Cormack Award for excellence in teaching.
April 2011
The New Face of the Middle East.
March 17th, 2011
"What to do with a History degree?" History Career Panel.
March 16th, 2011
Vancouver 125: the department of History's year-long lecture series exploring various aspects of Vancouver's History.
January 2011
Jay Taylor wins 2010 National Outdoor Book Award for "Pilgrims of the Vertical."
November 2010
SFU grad students Sean Carleton and Bonnie Schmidt highlighted on Canada's History website.
September 2010
2010 Summer Programme
Expressions of Diversity: An intro to Muslim Cultures
July 19-30, 2010
Dr. Andre Gerolymatos appointed by PM Stephen Harper to Advisory Council on National Security.
May 26, 2010
Congratulations to graduate student Sean Wilkinson, who won the Faculty's Robert C. Brown Award for "a combination of outstanding academic achievement and outstanding performance or leadership in another endeavour at the university."
May 2010
Lecture by Shen Zhihua: Mao, Khrushchev, and the Sino-Soviet Split
March 2010
Prof. Jennifer Spear who wins the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History for her book, Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans.
March 2010
Prof Jeremy Brown and Student blog about "China's Most Wanted Man."
October 2009
Vancouver Sun Article: Why an Arts Degree can get you the job.
September 2, 2009
SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology interactive website of the Fraser Valley centuries ago.
August 2009
Hellenic Studies Chair Andre Gerolymatos blogs for the Vancouver Sun newspaper on the Future Iranian Dictatorship.
July 30, 2009
Professor Paul Sedra's Opinion piece in the Toronto Star.
July 23, 2009
Department of History Book Launch & Reception
September 28, 2009
May Day Cabaret and the unveiling of "May Day: A Graphic History of Protest."
May 1, 2009
Spring 2009 Colloquia Schedule
January - April (pdf schedule)
Ian Dyck Memorial Lecture
by Alun Howkins
March 27, 2009
Japanese Immigrants and the Retreat from White Supremacy
by Lon Kurashige
March 24, 2009
"'The Unfractionated Self:
Person, Time and Conduct in Middle East Cultures"
by Dr. Lawrence Rosen
March 19, 2009
Summer 2008 Colloquia Schedule
May – July (pdf schedule)