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Historians’ Histories: Carly Ciufo

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. Today we’re joined by the wonderful Carly Ciufo!

Carly CiufoCarly Ciufo is a doctoral candidate of the LR Wilson Institute for Canadian History in the Department of History at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Prior to returning to academia, she held positions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Tentatively titled, “Can Museums do Human Rights Work? Human Rights Museums and the People who Build Them,” her dissertation investigates the degree that those who work in, with, and against human rights museums are, in fact, doing human rights work. She is also the elected graduate student representative on the Canadian Historical Association Council, with shared responsibility for the teaching and learning portfolio.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Erin Millions

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. Today we’re joined by the wonderful Dr. Erin Millions

 

Erin Millions

Dr. Erin Millions’ research focuses on the intersections of childhood, gender, material culture, and colonialism in Canada and the wider British Empire. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Winnipeg with Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum’s CIHR-funded project “Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba, 1930s-1970s” and the Western Canadian Studies Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba.

 

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Historian’s Histories: Jessica Knapp

Welcome back to everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories, where we discover what makes historians tick. Today we have a very special guest, public historian Jessica Knapp! Even though she is extraordinarily busy organizing things at the Canada’s History Forum, she was gracious enough to take some time to answer our questions! I hope you enjoy!

 

Jessica Knapp

Jessica Knapp (She/Her) is a Canadian public historian working as an independent consultant. She specializes in digital outreach and engagement, relationship building and collaboration, and project coordination. Her digital work has received national recognition through the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Jessica is active in the public history community in Canada and internationally through the National Council on Public History.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Blair Stein

 

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features fellow awesome Jewish-Canadian woman and historian, Blair Stein. I have been (not-so) secretly in love with her research for years, so I’m super excited to bring you this interview today. Enjoy!

Photo of Blair Stein. Blair Stein is a doctoral candidate in History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. She’s especially interested in technology, the environment, identity, and the uneven experiences of modernity. Her dissertation uses Trans Canada Air Lines’ (TCA, now Air Canada) public-facing material as a way to explore postwar concerns with nature, culture, nation, and technology in Canada. Her work has appeared in Technology and Culture, the Journal for the History of Astronomy, and an upcoming book onMade Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History from UBC Press. She also blogs occasionally for the nice people at NiCHE, Technology’s Stories, and Activehistory.ca, is the graduate student representative of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, and tweets about airplanes, pedagogy, dogs, and Star Trek.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Anne Dance

Welcome back to our regular favourite series, Historians’ Histories! This week we have a very special guest, fellow UVic alumna and one of my favourite people, Anne Dance! Not only is she brilliant, but she is extremely generous for agreeing to be interviewed despite her insanely busy schedule! So without any further, ado, here’s her Historians’ Histories:

 

Anne DanceDr. Anne Dance is the Academic Director of the Parliamentary Internship Programme and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Ottawa.

 

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Canadian History Roundup – Week of January 1, 2017

Roundup January 1, 2017

“The Ice Castle, Montréal, Winter Carnival 1887” (1887), J. T. Henderson. Library and Archives Canada, e011074265 CC by 2.0

The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.

*As promised, this roundup includes everything from December 18th forwards. It’s three for the price of one! In an effort to keep this somewhat organized, I’ve separated each roundup by week, going from oldest to most recent.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Sarah Van Vugt

It’s 2017 and we’re back! I’ve got tons of exciting blog posts and projects planned for this year, and I can’t wait to show them to you! But right now, we’re going to start off with a brand new post in our series, Historians’ Histories, the series where we do the historiography of historians! (You can see the previous post in this series by clicking here.) I’m excited to announce that the latest post comes from another dear friend of mine and my supervisor-sibling, Sarah Van Vugt!

Without any further ado, here’s her bio:

Sarah Van Vugt

An Ajax, Ontario native and happy west coast transplant, Sarah Van Vugt has degrees from York University and recently completed her doctorate at the University of Victoria. In her academic life, she’s a historian who studies Canadian, gender, and beauty/body history (including war worker beauty pageants!) Sarah is also a Learning Strategist at UVic, where she is lucky enough to work with and around students in all disciplines. For fun, Sarah knits, bakes, reads, avidly participates in her local food swap, hangs out with her husband and her cat, and produces rather a lot of jam.

 

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Historians’ Histories: Peter Scales

In the discipline of history, one entire field is devoted to the study of how the study of history has evolved over time. We refer to this field as “historiography.” But while we tend to devote a great of study to the evolution of historical theories and methods, not much attention is paid to the personal evolution of historians themselves. Historians, like many academics, can seem to be figures that are larger-than-life, intimidating, and aloof. However, the reality couldn’t be farther from the truth. So, in this new series, “Historians’ Histories,” I’m going “behind the scenes” to talk with actual practicing historians about why they decided to devote their lives to history, their thoughts on the profession, and their work as historians. Think Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know a District,” without the biting political satire. 😉

Peter ScalesMy dear friend Peter Scales has kindly volunteered to be my first guinea pig in this new series. 😉 Peter is a family historian and lay chaplain with the Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation, who currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Originally hailing from Salmon Arm, BC, he has degrees in both history and philosophy, and spent most of his career in the Canadian Forces Air Command (now known as the Royal Canadian Air Force). In his spare time, he likes to repair and refurbish old vehicles, especially Volkswagens, and sing in a number of local choirs, including the Linden Singers of Victoria. Peter and I first met in 2006 in graduate school at the University of Victoria.

 

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