What does it mean to be Afro-Métis? Prof. Adjetey weighs in on the controversy on poet-laureate George Elliott Clarke

Published: 22 January 2020

In an insightful op-ed for the Star on January 21, 2020, Prof. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey explores how Canadian society still denies indigeneity to Black-Indigenous, or Afro-Métis, persons while...

Prof. Jarrett Rudy (1970-2020)

Published: 5 April 2020

Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.

M. Max Hamon (Ph.D. 2018) wins the coveted 2019 Wilson Book Prize

Published: 1 June 2020

Congratulations to M. Max Hamon! He just received the 2019 Wilson Book Prize for his first book The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875,...

Prof. Adjetey on anti-Black racism in Canada in CBC interview on June 7

Published: 11 June 2020

The violent nature of anti-Black racism in the United States has conveniently served Canadians for a long time to ignore racism in their own country, warns Prof. Adjetey in a CBC interview of June...

Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Fourth of July

Published: 6 July 2020

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed on Trump’s misguided ideas of Fourth of July in the Washington Post.

Professor Opal writes Washington Post op-ed on Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and 2021.

Published: 12 January 2021

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal published an op-ed in the Washington Post on how this foundational text of the American Revolution could help the United States deal with its many...

Professor Lüthi wins 2021 book award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS)

Published: 12 January 2021

Professor Lorenz M. Lüthi received the annual academic excellence award of Chinese Historians of the United States (CHUS) for his 2020 book Cold Wars as a “a paradigm-setting contribution to the...

Professor Opal writes op-ed with physician-father about need to prepare health systems for future pandemics

Published: 19 May 2020

Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written an op-ed for the Globe and Mail on how health systems across the...

Professor Andrea Tone dispels Trump myth on Lysol

Published: 30 April 2020

Media outlets cite Professor Andrea Tone’s research on the history and medicinal use of Lysol to dispel US President Trump’s recent suggestion that injecting or ingesting disinfectants can fight...

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