About the Huron Community History Centre

The Huron Community History Centre supports local communities and organizations in producing their own historical materials and programming, by providing access to faculty, student, and university resources. The Huron Community History Centre builds research and outreach capacity of local communities, and highlights the innovative, transformative potential of Huron’s History Department’s unique strengths in providing rich collaborative, community-based research opportunities for undergraduates.

The Centre provides History program-centred collaborative, community-based research opportunities for undergraduates, and situates local histories in global context, building international collaborative knowledge networks with our students and community partners. The Huron Community History Centre supports Huron’s Joint Minor in Public History—the first undergraduate Public History program in Canada, and one of only a handful of such programs in North America—and supports Huron’s interdisciplinary Book History program through the innovative work of the Huron Letterpress Studio.

Since the Centre’s founding in 2017 we have supported over 80 paid student research positions and have worked with 25 community partners, including  Defining Moments Canada, the Shingwauk Residential School Archive, and the Buxton National Historic Site, and is interested in building new partnerships. Through the Department of History, we also support ActiveHistory.ca, a project dedicated to making the work of historians more accessible to the public and promoting community engaged historical practice.

Community History Centre builds upon Huron’s History curriculum with its emphasis on public history. Courses offered in our program that address community history are:

    • HIS 2204 F/G: Crises and Confederation
    • HIS 2302 F/G: American Modern
    • HIS 2710 F/G: Red, White, Black et Blancs
    • HIS 2811 F/G: Historians, Communities and the Past
    • HIS 3801 E: The Historians Craft
    • HIS 4810 F/G: Engaging with the Past

For more information contact the Community History Centre Co-Directors:

Dr. Thomas Peace
519-438-7224 ext. 227
tpeace@uwo.ca

Dr. Nina Reid-Maroney
519-438-7224 ext.358
nreidmar@huron.uwo.ca