History MA student Michael McNeil Receives a Graduate Merit Award from the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Department of History would like to congratulate our History MA student Michael McNeil, who recently received a Graduate Merit Award from the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences for his paper "The Accursed Mountains: The Albanian Highlands in the Colonial Gaze of Ferenc Nopcsa, 1903-1914." Michael's research focuses on Hungary’s contribution to Austro-Hungarian expansionism in the Balkans during the last decades of the Habsburg Empire, and he presented his paper on May 31, 2021 as part of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada's 35th annual conference.

For more on Michael's work and the award, see https://congress2021.ca/congress-blog/meet-recipients-2021-congress-graduate-merit-awards-may-31