History

Research area: Canadian political and intellectual history; history of the political left in Canada

Student roles:
Perform literature reviews on contemporary left-wing movements
Analyse media reports devoted to Avi Lewis

Skills required:
Experience in political science, political philosophy would be an asset.
Knowledge of French would be asset.

Research area: Hendrik Kraay’s research focuses on nineteenth-century Brazilian social, cultural, and political history. He is particularly interested in the interaction between elite and popular politics, festivals, race, slavery, and the development of the Brazilian imperial state. These themes run through his monographs: Bahia's Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900 (2019), Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889 (Stanford University Press, 2013) and Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001).

Student roles:
The main task of the Globalink intern(s) is to find articles about entrudo and carnival in the nineteenth-century Brazilian and Portuguese press and to locate references to the celebrations in travelers' accounts and in other contemporary sources. The principal geographic areas of focus for this stage of the research project are Rio de Janeiro (ca. 1860 to 1889) and Portugal (1800-1900).
The work will involve extensive research in a variety of databases. On-line newspaper collections in the Luso-Brazilian world (the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira from Brazil's Biblioteca Nacional and its Portuguese counterparts, the Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) contain thousands of titles. Because most of these collections were generated from microfilms, their search capacity is quite limited and, therefore, the intern(s) will examine the newspapers for the weeks leading up to Lent to locate articles about entrudo and carnaval, which they will download and add to a database. They will catalogue the articles and transcribe or summarize them.
From the standard bibliographies of travelers who visited Brazil and Portugal, the intern(s) will compile a bibliography and search for the travelers in databases like Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Nineteenth-Century Collections Online, Google Books, and Internet Archive. The analytical tasks will include examining these works and identifying relevant passages on entrudo, carnaval, and other popular cultural practices, copying or downloading them, and adding them to a database.
Additional work may involve collecting and analyzing anti-entrudo bylaws from the online collections of Portuguese law codes, collecting references to entrudo and carnaval from other primary and secondary sources, and analyzing manuscript bylaws from nineteenth-century São Paulo.
Some of this work has already been started by previous research assistants, and the 2027 intern(s) will continue these tasks.

Skills required:
The student intern for this project should have the following skills:
1. Excellent reading skills in Portuguese
2. Familiarity with nineteenth-century Portuguese orthography, grammar, and usage
3. Knowledge of research methods in the discipline of History
4. Experience with primary-source historical research
5. Knowledge of nineteenth-century Luso-Brazilian social, cultural, and political history
6. Experience with database software would be an asset
7. Experience with reading and transcribing nineteenth-century manuscripts would be an asset

Research area: I specialize in Indigenous history and the creation of the Canada-United States border. My recent work has investigated the state sponsored abductions of suspected criminals across international lines. My methodologies often focus around archival research, GIS (digital mapping), historical databases, and game-based learning.

Student roles:
During the first two weeks of the appointment, the student will receive advanced historical training in digital mapping (GIS), database/spreadsheet construction, data analysis, transcriptions, visualizations, etc. During weeks 3-12, the student will read and digitize archival records. They will help to create and modify databases related to Saskatchewan’s judicial system. Finally, they will map information related to judges, justices of the peace and sentencing patterns.

Skills required:
This project is open to a wide range of skills/backgrounds. An ability to read cursive writing is an asset, as many of the archival documents appear in that format. This project does not require knowledge of GIS software (QGIS etc) or databases although previous experience in either would be an asset. Previous historical research experience is similarly an asset but not required.

Research area: I am an Indigenous historian who focuses on Indigenous histories of politics, activism, and gender in 20th century Canada. I follow community-engaged research practices for my work. I also conduct research of interest to my Indigenous community, Tk'emlups te Secwepemc.

Student roles:
Students will be responsible for reviewing archival documents from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (through dropbox), and will take detailed notes on relevant materials. They will manage a spreadsheet that includes populating keywords and making connections to broad themes. They will also use endnote to add to and access secondary literature related to residential schools, Indigenous peoples, and settler colonialism.

Skills required:
Students will be familiar with historical research, including experience with archival records. They will be familiar with how to read and approach historical scholarship (secondary sources). They will have competencies with programs such as excel, endnote, and dropbox, and will have strong attention to detail. They will be able to read cursive writing, especially from historical documents. They will have an understanding of Indigenous histories in Canada and the history of the Indian Residential School system. I will provide access to specific literature to ground students in the history of Indigenous peoples in BC, residential schools, and settler colonialism.

Research area: The project is grounded in Ukrainian Canadian diaspora studies, digital folklore and media studies, and propaganda studies, and examines identity, memory, migration, language, belonging, and information warfare within Ukrainian communities in Ukraine and the diaspora. Methodologically, his research integrates oral history, community-based scholarship, and digital humanities approaches to the study of migration, displacement, cultural heritage, and the circulation of narratives and propaganda in contemporary media and society

Student roles:
The student will play an active role in the analysis and organization of data collected as part of an ongoing research project examining language, culture, identity, and social media within the Ukrainian immigrant community in Alberta.
A primary responsibility will involve working with qualitative datasets generated through community dialogue events, audience feedback, surveys, interviews, field notes, and social media materials. The student will assist in organizing, cleaning, coding, and classifying data using established analytical frameworks developed by the research team. This includes identifying recurring themes related to language ideologies, multilingual practices, cultural memory, identity, migration, and community engagement.
The student will also assist in compiling and managing a corpus of social media content produced by influencers and community members. Responsibilities may include categorizing posts, annotating textual and visual materials, developing coding schemes, and documenting patterns emerging from the data. Where appropriate, the student may contribute to preliminary discourse analysis and thematic analysis of the collected materials.
Additional responsibilities will include reviewing relevant scholarly literature, participating in regular research meetings, maintaining research documentation, and assisting with the preparation of research reports, presentations, and knowledge mobilization activities.
Through participation in the project, the student will gain experience in qualitative research methods, sociolinguistic and discourse analysis, social media research, data management, and community-based research practices. The project provides valuable training in handling complex qualitative datasets and offers opportunities to contribute to an active research program examining the relationship between language, media, culture, and identity in contemporary immigrant communities.

Skills required:
Applicants should have a background in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Studies, Anthropology, or a related field. Experience with qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, interviews, surveys, or social media research is an asset. Strong organizational, analytical, and writing skills are required. Familiarity with data management, coding, and qualitative analysis software (e.g., NVivo, Excel) would be beneficial. Knowledge of Ukrainian is mandatory. The project is particularly suitable for students interested in language, identity, migration, media, and community-based research.

Research area: Analysis of Modern Middle Eastern history (especially Palestine during the interwar period), with a particular focus on political, social and economic change over the course of one calendar year, 1926

Student roles:
This project will consist of searching Arabic newspapers (especially Egyptian and Palestinian), and other primary source material, online and in print, to select wide ranging material on infrastructural and everyday domains—maps and museums, taxes and title, coinage and citizenship, railways and reservoirs, radio, tourism, newspapers, elections, crime, earthquakes, and migration—through which Palestinian society navigated the 1920s. Students will be required to translate the articles (and other primary source material) into English, and organise them according to relevant themes.

Skills required:
Students must have a native command of Arabic, a familiarity with the Arab press across the Middle East during the interwar period, and a knoweldge of how to search newspapers online.

Research area: I am cross-appointed between Law and History. Most of my research investigates nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian approaches to using the law of defamation to punish people for offensive expression. I'm interested in how American approaches to freedom of expression diverged from British/colonial approaches and in how defences to these actions have evolved, since before the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982), it was through common law defences that people defended themselves. Other research concerns racial discrimination in Canada during that period, again with a particular eye to differences between Canadian and American approaches.

Student roles:
Any or all of these tasks may be required: attending and taking notes at interviews, transcribing interviews, tracking down and keeping track of secondary sources, finding and taking notes on newspaper articles and other sources, finding and analyzing secondary sources, proofreading, checking footnotes, and compiling terms for an index. The student should be able to work collaboratively but also independently, and must have the judgement to know when to ask for guidance.

Skills required:
I'm hoping to find a student interested in the history of the press and social activism to continue doing primary and secondary research and work with me on a book manuscript. Some background in Canadian and American history would therefore be helpful, especially knowledge of the history of the Canadian prairies and the various people who have lived there. The student must be curious about how people thought in the past and willing to read old newspapers and court records and to learn some law. The student must be careful with details and attentive to the textual voices.

Research area: The research area is the political and cultural history of Mexico. The work bridges social scientific approaches to international relations and cultural studies approaches to history.

Student roles:
The student will assist in the collection and organization of research materials related to the project. Tasks may include: reviewing microfilm copies of Spanish-language newspapers and making digital reproductions of articles related to the research topics; converting digital photographs of documents ad newspaper articles to pdfs; attaching these to records in a research database; creating keyword searches for the documents; and, preparing short English-language summaries of Spanish-language documents.

Skills required:
Students with a background in History, International Relations, and/or Cultural Studies will be well-prepared for this work. Strong English and Spanish language skills and excellent analytical skills will be required for the historical analysis of periodical sources and diplomatic correspondence.