Research Seminar 

Galen Perras 

This Research Seminar’s aim is to help students, in conjunction with their memoir/thesis advisers, to create a research project proposal that will be approved by the Department of History’s Graduate Committee. The seminar will help students to situate their work within broader historical craft. There will be a mix of activities, some practical, some theoretical. Four key steps will focus students’ work in this regard: (1) a general summary of the research project; (2) an historiographical exercise; (3) putting together preliminary bibliographies; and (4) analyzing relevant secondary and primary sources required to complete their research project. The readings found herein are designed to help students deal with questions of methodology, approaches to writing and analyzing History, notions of controversy and interpretation, and ethical standards. 

Séminaire en Histoire du Canada: Histoire intellectuelle du Québec et du Canada français 

Damien-Claude Bélanger 

Ce séminaire se penche sur la vie intellectuelle québécoise et canadienne-française de la Conquête britannique à la Révolution tranquille. Il invite les étudiant.e.s à approfondir divers thèmes, dont l’évolution du nationalisme, le rôle de l’Église catholique dans la vie intellectuelle, l’émergence des intellectuels, les revendications féministes et la vie intellectuelle des groupes minoritaires. Le séminaire se composera de rencontres hebdomadaires au cours desquelles les étudiant.e.s seront appelé.e.s à analyser et à discuter les textes au programme. Les étudiant.e.s devront également rédiger un travail de recherche basé, en bonne partie, sur des sources primaires. 

Séminaire de Recherche 

Michel Bock 

Seminar in the History of Women and Gender: From the Body to Politics 

Mamaye Idriss 

This seminar explores major historiographical and theoretical turns in women’s and gender history. Moving from the intimate realm of the body, domesticity, and sexuality to institutional power, citizenship, colonial rule, and political mobilization, students will analyze how gender operates as a fundamental axis of social structure and power dynamics. 

Heather Murray 

This course offers you close readings of an array of approaches in the historiography of medicine, primarily in intellectual, cultural, and social history, with an emphasis on scholarly works that are transnational in scope. Topics include the relationship between science and medicine over time; the relationship between physicians and patients amidst increasing professionalization and demands for empathy in caring; the development of therapeutic cultures, especially the history of psychiatry; institutional frameworks of medicine, especially the rise of the hospital; as well as, of course, experiences and representations of illness, death, diseases, mental suffering and curing over time. In addition to historiography, this course will offer you some theoretical readings, as well as acquaintanceship with medical primary sources and archives. I hope that you will emerge from this course feeling theoretically conversant with the medical humanities, and with greater methodological tools to approach the history of medicine.