Research in the Department

 

ROLA Update
There are several links on the Faculty's Research web page designed to help.  In particular, an illustrated tutorial can be found at: http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/research/ROLA/ROLA%20GRAPHICS.pdf.

Please note that the Faculty requires two additional pieces of information to be added to the ROLA form that are not part of the RS&S's default.  They are (see http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/research/ROLA/ROLA%20REQUIREMENTS%20for%20web.pdf):

Under the GENERAL INFO. TAB:
Lay Description/Abstract
- The researcher can include a project abstract by clicking on the yellow label to the right of the title line. Please be sure to enter a short summary of the project here.

Under the Project/Budget TAB:
-In the "Description" box which can be accessed by clicking on the word "Description" to the right of the title, please indicate any resources required from the Faculty of Social Science (such as release time, space, matching funds etc). If no Faculty resources are required, please indicate that fact.

ROLAs that are not complete will be returned to the PI.  Please note that RD&S will on occasion complete ROLAs on behalf of a researcher.  If so, please ensure that the person filling out the form is aware of the Faculty's requirements.

 

Message from the Chair:
The research endeavour in the Department of History is multi-faceted. We have much research expertise particularly in Canada, Europe and the United States and their interrelations, though our interests extend to the Far East, to South America, and to the Near East. In thematic terms, the Department's research emphasizes Society and Culture, International Relations and Conflict, Business and Economy, and Technology, Health and Environment. The Department is proud of its research productivity. The number of books and articles appearing each year by historians from Western, as well as the awards which these publications have won or been nominated for, indicates the extent and quality of Department members' research efforts.

We have a very lively array of workshops and speakers' series. One has been fostered by graduate students; it and the two organized by faculty - the Department of History Colloquium and the Business and Economic History Workshop -- add much to the Department's intellectual life. The significant support provided by Harris Steel will permit major symposia to be hosted by the Department on subjects relating to American history and Canadian-American relations. The Honorable Edwin A. Goodman has endowed the Joanne Goodman Lectures, dealing with an aspect of the history of the North Atlantic Triangle (Britain, Canada and the United States). In many years the Department's Smallman Professor provides additional intellectual variety. Post-doctoral fellows, (the Metcalf Fellow, and the new Harris Steele Fellow) help enliven matters. The Department is proud that the Metcalf Fellows have moved on to tenure stream positions.

The Department frequently host conferences. The highly successful "The Future of the Past" Conference of 2002, and the "Medieval Global Economies" Conference of 2005 are two notable examples. And of course the Department hosted the very-well-attended and successful Canadian Historical Association meeting in June of 2005.

The Department has some 80 graduate students. Eighteen of our faculty members hold doctoral supervision rights, and many others are approved for Masters supervision and teaching. The graduate Public History Program has a large number of visiting speakers, and an active cross-disciplinary involvement, supplemented by an extensive internship program.

Professor Margaret Kellow, Chair