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Tri-University Graduate Program in History

A graduate history program that combines the faculty and resources of the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University

The Tri-University Graduate Program in History combines the faculty and resources of three of Canada’s premier universities. Since 1994 our program has been educating students in innovative ways while providing them with a solid grounding in traditional historical methods. The Tri-University program integrates the scholarship and experience of over sixty graduate faculty, making it one of the biggest graduate history programs in the country. Some 150 History graduate students are currently enrolled in the program and each year we accept up to 20 new Doctoral students and 60 new Master’s students. Because of its impressive size and scope and because of student mobility among the three campuses, we are able to provide courses and supervise research in the widest possible range of areas. At the same time, through small seminars, close student-professor relationships and through teaching assistantships and scholarships held at one of the three participating campuses, the program is able to maintain the atmosphere of smaller, more intimate educational institutions. In our program, students benefit from combining placement in a single history department with the resources of one of Canada’s largest graduate history programs.

10/06/2026

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Chan, for successfully defending his thesis, Loyalty and Righteousness: Confucianism and the Chinese Community in British Columbia, 1923–1960 in June. https://buff.ly/FWBEvQA 🎉

Jonathan Chan successfully defended his thesis, "Loyalty and Righteousness: Confucianism and the Chinese Community in British Columbia, 1923–1960," 6/23/2026.

09/30/2026

Join Tri-U grad and Western assistant professor, Dr. Cody Groat, at the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada's event to discuss his new book, Always a Part of the Land: the Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories. Held on Thursday, October 1, 7pm. Also available on Zoom. For more information to attend in person or for the Zoom link see

The commemoration of a nation’s past is a highly contested process that is shaped by competing, and often diverging, interests. In this talk, Cody Groat will discuss his new book Always a Part of the…

09/28/2026

Daniel Manulak, PhD will join us this September 30th, 2026 at 7:00 p.m., for a book signing and discussion of his book Canada, Apartheid, and the Defence of the Liberal Order, hosted by the SJU history department in cooperation with the Waterloo Region Canadian International Council.

From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Canadian policy-makers shared a remarkably similar world view that shaped their approach toward South African apartheid and the risks it posed to global race relations. Why did Ottawa take a leading role internationally in addressing an issue seemingly peripheral to its national interests?

Join this free event with author Daniel Manulak exploring Canada’s role in the struggle to end apartheid, hosted in SJ2 Room 2003. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

09/23/2026

Dragen Lab hosts their C.A.M.E.L.O.T conference this Saturday (26th) along with a discussion on Friday with Dr. Stephen Sherlock. Check out their website to register for both events. https://buff.ly/sRiEPep

09/22/2026

There's still a few hours to join the first Rural History Roundtable lecture of this year featuring Dr. Cody Groat, Western University and Rebecca Small presenting a lecture "Understanding Poverty and Community at the Ingersoll Rural Cemetery Potter's Field." In-person or online. https://uwaterloo.ca/tri-university-history-graduate-program/events/understanding-poverty-and-community-ingersoll-rural-cemetery

07/07/2026

We like to celebrate accomplished Tri-U students! Learn more about Lydia Kinasewich History Department, University of Guelph and her look into the BC dairy industry through her MA program. https://buff.ly/Z1DmNHp

05/13/2026

is looking for proposals for presentations, poster presentations, and vendors for their CAMELOT conference on Saturday, 26 September 2026. Please see on Instagram for more information.

Proposals due: Wednesday, July 1.

For proposal submission links see: https://buff.ly/PiLKYWu

05/08/2026

Join Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer of Trent University St. Jerome's University Notre Dame Chapel, Tuesday, May 12 for his lecture: "Canada's Arctic is Under Threat"
Clarifying Security Threats Through, To, and In the Arctic.

Canada's Arctic is Under Threat: Clarifying Security Threats Through, To, and In the Arctic with Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer

04/28/2026

hosts the 36th annual Canadian Military History Colloquium on May 8-9 at the Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University. Register by May 3! https://buff.ly/zf4QaNy

04/21/2026

invites you to join them online for The Frank Watson Book Prize Lecture presented by Dr. Catriona Macdonald from the .

Patrons and Politics in the Making of Scottish History: Past, Present and Future

🗓 Thursday 23 April, 2026

🕰 1pm (EDT) / 6pm (UK)

💻 Zoom

In this lecture Catriona Macdonald will consider the historic role of elite clubs and colourful patrons in the history of Scottish historical scholarship, then sketch the role of the state and of politicians in the writing of Scottish history in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. She will conclude by offering a conjectural history of trends in more recent times which suggest that the future of the Scottish past is not as secure as we may think.

In 2025, Catriona Macdonald was awarded The Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History for her publication, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024.

All are welcome to attend! See https://buff.ly/9lhI7Bg to sign up for the link.

Address

50 Stone Road East
Guelph, ON
N1G2W1

Website

http://www.triuhistory.ca/

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