Tina Loo (with Meg Stanley) has won the 2011 Canadian Historical Review's prize for best article
Congratulations to Tina Loo and co-author Meg Stanley for receiving the Canadian Historical Review's prize for best article in 2011.
In recommending the article for this award, the Editorial Board had this to say:
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Spotlight on Research Clusters
ideas? How did the construction of borders shape the formation of political, social, economic, and cultural identities (and vice versa)? And how did the transcendence of borders transform the configuration of polities and societies? In a world where identity politics is increasingly charged, we believe it is especially meaningful for all of us to reconsider the limits of borders and boundaries.
"male and "female," have varied over time and across space, between and within cultures. The history of sexuality not only examines transformations in sexual roles and identities over time, but also questions how "sexuality" or "sexual identity" are themselves historically contingent. The faculty in this cluster work in regions which span the globe -- from the Americas and the Caribbean to Europe -- and approach these issues from a variety of perspectives, including the relationships between gender/sexuality and "race" or class, and the intersections of gender/sexuality with other social and cultural structures such as religion, marriage, or the law.
culture at various times and in a range of geographic contexts. Working from an often interdisciplinary approach, our interests include cultural production and reception; popular culture; visual culture; youth culture; tourism and leisure; cross cultural encounter and interaction; landscape, nature and memory; and, more broadly, the relations of culture, power, and history itself.
environments, and with what consequences? More fundamentally, how have different peoples conceptualized the boundary between "nature" and "culture" over time and to what ends? The interdisciplinary field of environmental history explores the relationships among peoples and places, bridging the local and global by drawing on literature in the history of science and technology, anthropology, geography, law, and the natural sciences.
how these same ways and processes influence and are themselves influenced by relationships with experience, memory, identity, and power. While our primary focus is on the history of Christianity, we are also interested in comparative approaches to "religion" more broadly.
theme of research in our department. We focus in particular on the role of subcommunities defined by class, race, gender, age, and ethnicity as well as aboriginal and migrant groups in rural and urban communities. The defining feature of this cluster is our interest in the close study – the microhistory – of social relationships within and between such groups within the physical spaces of villages, towns, and cities.
and negotiate power in the international system. Collegially and individually, we examine the history of international organizations; the relationship between ideology and foreign policy; the development of the global economy; the origins and history of international law and human rights protocols; and the linkages between science, the state, and international relations.
practices and knowledge as well as class relations, defines unacceptable behaviour, and acts as a target for resistance. Historians of law and society seek the operation of law across time and in varied locales. We examine the production of law and legal systems, the development of a concept of social justice and rights, and the lived experience of law and legal regulation. Our interests include youth, rights, and criminal justice in Canadian history; the development of English Common Law and the social relationships that affected it; the relationship between religion and law; and law and the environment.
shaped broader patterns of history. While our primary research interests are in the territories that have become Canada and the United States, we are also interested in comparative studies, particularly of other former British colonies. Temporally, our interests range from the early colonial period to the present. We are particularly interested in the practice of ethical collaboration with Indigenous communities and in creating conversations between Indigenous history and other fields. Our specific strengths in this field include the Northwest Coast and the Pacific, the environment, research methodologies, urban places, migration, the cultures of colonialism, and Indigenous encounters with modernity.
politics is present history." To transcend the limitations of political history, many historians turned to social history, a field that one of its practitioners famously defined in 1944 as "history with the politics left out." Today few social historians ignore questions of power, and likewise, few political historians focus exclusively on the state as if it were an autonomous domain. Members of this cluster focus on the “new political history” and consider the state in terms of bureaucratic structures, elections, administrative policies, militaries, police powers, legitimating ideologies, and mass movements seeking to influence or control the state. We are also concerned more broadly with the question of power and the relationship between politics and culture.
study the internal development of scientific ideas, technological inventions, and medical breakthroughs. Others center on the reciprocal relationship between science and society, examining how science is a deeply embedded cultural activity, both influencing and influenced by society. Individuals in this cluster also work closely with science studies scholars in philosophy, English, geography, sociology, and other disciplines.
- the exchange of goods, people, foods and cultures, carried out in most cases across the oceans of the world. The political dimension of those international contacts holds a central place in research through the examination of the specific empires, both maritime and land-based, that have waxed and waned in the last 1500 years. Approaches are both comparative, examining different states and cultures in light of others, and chronological, examining how those states and cultures changed because of exchange of ideas and commodities with counterparts around the world.
experiences of children and adolescents, and the cultural and political meanings of childhood and youth in diverse times and places. Faculty expertise ranges geographically from North America to the Soviet Union, and includes such broad areas of inquiry as youth labor, culture and recreation, girlhood, juvenile justice, children's bodies, and education.Recent Publications
The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Nineteenth Century. University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Report by Stephanie Ickert, 2011 Winner of the Conway Scholarship
Germanness has always played a large role in my life, and it’s no coincidence that my master’s research project is centered on it, as well. Growing up with four grandparents who had emigrated from Germany in the early 1950s ensured that my life was filled with all kinds of Germanness. Of course, being German to me meant singing German songs, and eating lots of Spätzle, Klöße, Bratkartoffeln, Weißwurst, Rote Grütze, Roggenbrot, Leberwurst, Bretzel, and Rouladen every S
