We are pleased to announce that History and Classics faculty have won two top campus awards in teaching and research. Dr. Dennis Sweeney has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The award recognizes contributions to teaching excellence by colleagues and especially by students, past and present. Congratulations to Dr. Sweeney on very well-deserved recognition of his exceptional teaching!
Dr. Sarah Carter has just been announced as the 2014 recipient of the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research. This is the University of Alberta's most prestigious research award, and Dr. Carter, holder of a Henry Marshall Tory Chair in our department, has earned a strong international reputation for her research in prairie settlement in Western Canada and the United States, paying particular attention to Aboriginal peoples, gender and ethnicity. Her current work is comparative, reconceptualizing the history of settlement in the "British world" by analyzing settlement through the category of gender and a post-colonial reading of the nation.
Congratulations to both Dennis and Sarah for this significant recognition of the quality of their work.