S2E04 History Beyond the Classroom with Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak

Published: June 23, 2021, 5:32 p.m.

b'Today\\u2019s guest is the recipient of this year\\u2019s Faculty of Humanities\\xa0Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Elizabeth\\xa0Vlossak\\xa0is an\\xa0Associate Professor with the Department of History where her\\xa0courses include\\xa020th-century European and World History, Weimar and Nazi Germany, comparative urban history, and women\\u2019s and gender history.\\xa0She has also taught a\\xa0directed-reading course in historic gardening using Brock University\\u2019s community garden\\xa0and directed students in research projects involving oral history.\\xa0\\nDr.\\xa0Vlossak\\xa0has been\\xa0bringing her students together with members of the\\xa0local community to work\\xa0on Niagara history projects.\\xa0This includes work with the Niagara-on-the-Lake Tennis Club and the Canada Games, which will be held in Niagara in the summer of 2022. She is the co-director with Dr. Julie Stevens (Sport Management) of the Sport Oral History Archive (SOHA), a digital, interactive archive preserving local and national sporting legacies through the collection of oral history interviews and photographs.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nLinks\\nStudents grow history in campus garden (Brock News, Aug. 8, 2019)\\nBrock History student helps save community sport memories (Brock News, Jan. 14, 2021)\\nCanada Games Teaching Spotlight: How Elizabeth Vlossak\\u2019s students will capture history in Niagara (Brock News, May 7, 2020)\\nBrock researchers looking for Canada Games stories (Brock News, July 30, 2020)\\nElizabeth Vlossak faculty bio\\nDepartment of History\\n\\xa0\\nCourses & Projects Mentioned\\nHIST 3F02 \\u2018Making History in Niagara\\u2019\\nHIST 4F00 \'Voices from the Past: Oral History\'\\n"Threads through Time" digital exhibit will launch spring 2022.\\n"Sport Oral History Archive" (SOHA) is scheduled to launch fall 2021.\\n\\xa0\\nCredits\\nThank you for listening to Foreword.\\xa0\\nFind our footnotes, links\\xa0to\\xa0more information,\\xa0transcripts,\\xa0and past episodes on our website\\xa0brocku.ca/humanities.\\xa0\\nWe love to hear from our listeners! Join us on\\xa0Twitter,\\xa0Facebook, and\\xa0Instagram\\xa0@brockhumanities.\\xa0\\nPlease subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app\\xa0so you don\\u2019t miss an episode.\\xa0\\nForeword\\xa0is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.\\xa0\\nSeries two sound design and editing is by Nicole Arnt. Theme music is by\\xa0Khalid Imam.\\xa0\\nSpecial thanks to Brock University\\u2019s\\xa0MakerSpace\\xa0and Brock University Marketing and Communications for\\xa0studio and web support.\\xa0\\nThis podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.'