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  • 2024 James A. Jackson Memorial Lecture

    Challenging Histories: How Prioritizing Indigenous Experiences Can Help Us Understand Our Shared Past

    With Dr. Lianne Leddy, Wilfred Laurier University

    Wednesday, March 20, 2024
    3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
    200 Education Building

    Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be available.

    Reconsider the history of the land now known as Canada through an Indigenous lens. Using research from her award-winning 2022 book, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake (University of Toronto Press), Leddy will examine how homeland, water, and responsibility are central to Indigenous histories. She argues that prioritizing Indigenous experiences can enrich our understandings of the past and challenge colonial narratives.


    Dr. Lianne Leddy is an associate professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of Serpent River First Nation. Her research focuses on Indigenous history in what is now Canada, with a focus on land, gender, and historical methods. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, NAIS, Oral History Forum, and Herizons.
     

  • Headshot of Lianne Leddy in purple sweater standing in front of fall foliage.
  • Book cover with black and white photo of lineup of children and teachers outside of a residential public school.
  • Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

    By Dr. Sean Carleton

    Congratulations to Dr. Carleton on the publication of his latest book. 

    "Lessons in Legitimacy" combines insights from history, Indigenous studies, historical materialism and political economy to present different histories of education for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples together. In the process, this important study reveals how an understanding of the historical uses of schooling can inform contemporary discussions about the role of education in reconciliation and improving Indigenous–settler relations.

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Programs of study

Undergraduate student resources and opportunities

UM History Students Association (UMHISA)

UMHISA is a student organization that offers events, student resources and opportunities for history students.

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Explore your career options in history

An undergraduate degree in history is not designed as preparation for a particular profession. Instead, the study of history provides training for any type of work where research and communication skills are important.

Use this guide to map out your career pathway from the start of your academic journey. Get the information you need for academic planning and connect with experiences to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes that employers are seeking.

View the History Career Compass

The Canadian Historical Association showcases a variety of history career paths through the personal profiles of Canadian history grads. 

View "What can you do with a history degree?" by the CHA

Undergraduate research awards (URA)

Undergraduate students have the opportunity to work with our leading faculty researchers and gain valuable experience.

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Graduate student resources and opportunities

History Graduate Students' Association (HGSA)

This student organization represents history graduate students at both the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. The group offers workshops, events and more.

Visit the HGSA website

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Finding a graduate advisor

Before submitting your application to the UM Faculty of Graduates Studies for the Joint Master’s Program, you are encouraged to contact at least one potential advisor from among the members of the UM and/or UW Departments of History.

In an email, please let the potential advisor know the following:

  • your area(s) of interest (e.g. Indigenous history, Canadian history, archival studies, etc.),
  • a brief summary of your undergraduate education (e.g. the history seminars you have taken or are currently taking),
  • a description of your prospective research topic (if known), and/or your specific interests within your chosen area,
  • how to best contact you.

Be sure to mention any correspondence with a potential advisor in your Statement of General Interest and Intent.

Please note that tentative acceptance from an advisor does not guarantee admission into the program.

Past theses

Recent MA theses

  • Luke Miguez: Reverse redlining: the financialization of redlining and the effects of the housing bubble in Cleveland, Ohio (2022).
  • Eleanor Thompson: Class, gender, race, and resistance: the United Farm Women of Manitoba,1916-1936 (2022).
  • Laura Elise Garinger: Flora and fonds: activating herbaria as archives (2021).
  • Cody Hodge: Vigilantism in Minnesota, 1850-1920 (2021).
  • Krystal Payne: Archival harm reduction: utilizing public health harm reduction concepts for reconciliatory power shifts in archives (2021).

Recent PhD dissertations

  • Anne Lindsay: “especially in this free Country:” Webs of Empire, Slavery and the Fur Trade (2021).
  • Karen Froman: The white man’s camera: the national film board of Canada and representations of Indigenous peoples in post-war Canada (2021).

View past history and archival studies theses on MSpace.

Fort Garry Lectures

The Fort Garry Lectures is an annual student colloquium and dissertation workshop, organized by students in the Joint Master's Program at the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg. Guest lectures and roundtables are also hosted throughout the academic year.

Learn more about the Fort Garry Lectures

Contact us

Department of History
Room 403 Fletcher Argue Building
15 Chancellors Circle
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB  R3T 2N2 Canada

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