Women and Trauma in WWI
VIU Education student, Danielle Cossey-Sutton, completed an independent study last year and won three awards at the 2021 VIU CREATE conference. Her study had her diving into wartime letters and other primary sources to focus on a less-talked-about facet of World War I: women’s trauma. “Women dealt so intimately with the war,” Cossey-Sutton said, but … Continued
In Defence of the Useless Degree
Anthropology, Archaeology, and History fueled my desire to learn. I saw them top a few “useless” lists in my time as a student. I still do. It is what you do with them, and your time at VIU, that makes their, and all the other degrees offered here, uses apparent.
Gender & History journal joins VIU
Gender & History, an internationally acclaimed journal, has come to call VIU home for the next five years. The publication focuses on the interconnectivity of its two titular subjects from sources around the world. The journal started in 1989 as a collaborative work by two historians, one in the United States and one in England. … Continued