Lakehead University’s Senate Research Committee has named Dr. Ron Harpelle as the 2006 Distinguished Researcher. His wide range of interests includes international development, Central America’s late nineteenth century immigrant, and cookbooks published in Saskatchewan. He has produced films, developed websites, and written a substantial number of articles and books. [Read more] November 21, 2007

On Monday 5 November, "1917: The Missing," a documentary that chronicles a team of researchers (including the Department's own David Ratz) as they identify two Second World War Canadian soldiers, will premiere on History Television. [Read more] November 02, 2007

The Department of History is pleased to announce the publication of "Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969," the latest book by Dr. Lori Chambers, Associate Professor of Women Studies and an Adjunct member of the Department of History. [Read more] November 01, 2007

The Department of History is proud to announce that former history student John MacPhail (HBA 1996, MA 2000) is one of this year's six recipients of the Governor General's Award (GGA) For Excellence in Teaching Canadian History. [Read more] October 24, 2007

Masters' student Nathan Hatton has been awarded a 3-year, $105,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship. This award has also been combined with a $10,000 Sport Canada Doctoral Supplement. [Read more] August 07, 2007

The Department of History is pleased to announce a new edition of former student Jean Morrison's (MA 1974) "Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade" has been published by Natural Heritage Books. [Read more] July 31, 2007

Honours history student Steve Ross has been selected to participate in the International Academic Mobility Project, a trilateral academic initiative between NAFTA members Canada, United States, and Mexico. [Read more] July 27, 2007

Former graduate student Mandy Hadenko (MA History 2005, HBA 2001) has been awarded a prestigious Hannah Senior General Scholarship from the Associated Medical Services Inc. (AMS). [Read more] June 26, 2007

Professor Ron Harpelle of the Department of History has secured a total of $50,000 from two funding agencies for the production of a documentary film on barbed wire. [Read more] June 25, 2007

On 7 May 2007, friends, family, colleagues, and both current and former students gathered to wish Dr. A. Ernest "Ernie" Epp all the best in his retirement. [Read more] June 22, 2007

Prof. David Ratz has contributed a new introduction to the recent reprint of George F. Stanley's classic study "In the Face of Danger: The History of the Lake Superior Regiment." [Read more] June 09, 2007

The Department of History is proud to announce that Masters' student Nathan Hatton has been awarded a prestigious 4-year, $80,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. [Read more] April 25, 2007

Dr. Todd Dufresne, Adjunct member of the department and Chair of Lakehead’s Philosophy Department, has just had his latest book, "Against Freud: Critics Talk," published by Stanford University Press. [Read more] April 05, 2007

Professor David Ratz, the Department of History's military historian, is heading to Vimy Ridge in April to take part in the full military funeral of a young First World War soldier his research helped identify. [Read more] April 01, 2007

The Department of History is proud to announce that Masters' student Nicole Butzke has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Master's Fellowship. Her thesis, “Silent Workers: West Indian Women in Costa Rica, 1900–1950,” focuses on West Indian women who immigrated to Central America in the early twentieth century and is a comprehensive history of the changing roles of women in an industrial plantation setting. [Read more] March 29, 2007

Recently, the International Development Research Centre published an update on historian Ron Harpelle who, along with Bruce Muirhead of the University of Waterloo, have been commissioned to write a book-length intellectual history of IDRC, and to produce related materials including a Website. [Read more] March 28, 2007

Recently, much media attention has been brought to the important biological aspects of the research leading to the identification of an Unknown Canadian Solider, but, Professor David Ratz, who is also a Captain with the Lake Superior Regiment, explains that sometimes overlooked historical analysis helps to uncover crucial information. [Read more] March 26, 2007

"Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer," a documentary film produced by Ron Harpelle and staring Michel Beaulieu, Petter Raffo and Bruce Muirhead, among others, will air on BRAVO! on 8 April at 8:00 p.m. EST. [Read more] January 30, 2007

Dr. Peter Raffo's book, "1934-2004 Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital From Institution to Community A Transformation of Psychiatric Hospital Services," is this year's winner of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society's Gertrude H. Dyke Award for best popular full-length study. [Read more] January 07, 2007

This month, Master's student Beverly Soloway's article "In the Shadow if a City: A History of Current River Neighbourhood" appears in the 2006 edition of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society's well-respected journal, _Papers & Records_. [Read more] January 03, 2007