Alumni, Faculty of Arts, Featured
Bringing history to life one story at a time January 31, 2025
By Brandi Thring History is not confined to textbooks. It exists in the memories of those who lived it. For Mark Zuehlke — an author,…
Tag: history
The Champlain Society | An Accidental History of Canada December 10, 2024
Historian John Belshaw joins the Witness to Yesterday podcast to discuss An Accidental History of Canada, a book covering minor historical events from the 1630s…
Alumni, Featured, Wildfire
Alum rekindles a cultural connection to fire December 2, 2024
By Brandi Thring Wildfire researcher Alexis Stowards (BNRS Hons ’24) spent nearly a decade fighting wildfires, witnessing firsthand the immense power of fire and its…
CBC Daybreak Kamloops | Americans in Kamloops election reaction November 7, 2024
History faculty member Dr. Annie St. John-Stark discusses voting in the US election, its outcome and the future of democracy with CBC Radio's Daybreak Kamloops.…
Faculty of Arts, Featured, Research and Graduate Studies, The Conversation Canada
King Charles’s 21st century coronation: Repatriating the Crown Jewels is long overdue May 5, 2023
King Charles will be directed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to “punish and reform what is amiss, confirm what is in good order” at his upcoming coronation.…
Faculty of Arts, Featured,
Scholar confronts racial violence and settler colonialism February 15, 2023
Canadian scholar, author and activist Dr. Sherene Razack has spent decades researching, writing and teaching about racial violence. Best known for her contributions to feminist…
Faculty and staff, Featured,
Anniversary time capsule seals TRU's 50th year May 21, 2021
https://youtu.be/E3bNnl2Lwms On May 20, 2021, Thompson Rivers University officially concluded its 50th anniversary celebrations with the burial of a new time capsule on the Kamloops…
CBC Kamloops | Panel of Americans living in Kamloops re: storming of US Capitol January 8, 2021
CBC Kamloops host Shelley Joyce interviews American-born TRU faculty member Annie St. John-Stark and Kamloops lawyer Lesra Martin about their reaction to the fatal storming…
Alumni, Faculty of Arts
Arts alum takes history lessons to Asia January 2, 2021
By Tyler Lowey Having one eye on the future and one eye on the past has carried Dr. Dan Connolly to heights in the academic…
Victoria News | Patrick brothers who shaped modern hockey also tried, but failed, to remove violence September 22, 2020
A new study by academic historian Tyler McKee at Thompson Rivers University shows that hockey has not always been a violent sport, and that 110…
The Globe and Mail | Is it time to decolonize your lawn? September 8, 2020
TRU historian John Belshaw explains how that vast expanse of green has roots that go back to settler culture. It's also not natural or environmentally…
Education News Canada | Thompson Rivers University records unprecedented research grant success August 11, 2020
The Government of Canada has awarded three Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers nearly $500,000 to conduct groundbreaking work in the social sciences and humanities. Dr. Gloria…
The Conversation Canada | When we call survivors ‘heroes,’ we’re missing the full picture February 12, 2020
TRU historian Annie St. John-Stark opens up the topic of calling survivors heroes, what and who heroes are, and what heroism is. Read more
CFJC Today | TRU rock history course co-taught by former Stones manager living up to the hype February 11, 2020
TRU guest instructor and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham has been bringing in a new level of learning interest for students taking the…
McFarland and Company | Lost to The Shoah Eight Lives February 3, 2020
TRU philosophy faculty member Jeff McLaughlin contributed to this book by Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff on the Holocaust, released as the world marks the 75th…
Quesnel Cariboo Observer | Quesnel native Stewart Cawood is the new operator of Barkerville’s Theatre Royal December 20, 2019
A Wells local who first fell in love with theatre as a young student at Correlieu Secondary School has been named the new operator for…
Campus News, Featured,
2019: the year in photos December 18, 2019
If a photo is worth a thousand words, TRU told quite a story in 2019. Rather than write what would be a very, very long…
News releases
TRU offers pop culture course with former Rolling Stones manager October 30, 2019
KAMLOOPS–Famed rock-star manager Andrew Loog Oldham is collaborating with TRU’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism to offer a once-in-a-lifetime…
The Conversation Canada | Mothers and others: My Aunt May’s memoir gave us stories to learn from May 10, 2019
TRU faculty member Tracy Penny Light writes in The Conversation Canada about reading her Aunt May's memoirs from the perspective of a historian. Read more
Campus News
Trauma and memory through history-how it impacts society today April 5, 2019
Annie St. John-Stark Annie is an assistant professor of history in TRU’s department of Philosophy, History and Politics who can speak to how war-based traumatic…
