Chad Gaffield receives Tyrrell Medal

Historian Chad Gaffield is this year’s recipient of the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Gaffield, a former president of the Canadian Historical Association and a widely-respected interdisciplinary historian, received the medal for “his pioneering conceptual and methodological work, as well as his award-winning studies of the 19^th and 20^th centuries,” which furthers the knowledge of Canadian history.

“It’s a pleasure for me to be able to congratulate Chad on this latest honour,” says Rector Gilles Patry. “We’ve known what an important role he plays in researching Canadian history for years, and the Tyrrell Medal is a well-deserved recognition of his excellence.”

Gaffield, the founding director of the University’s Institute of Canadian Studies, has also received two prestigious honours from the University of Ottawa: the Award for Excellence in Research (1995) and the Award for Excellence in Teaching (2002), as well as a University Research Chair (2003).

“It’s been a wonderful privilege to have been part of the blossoming of research on Canada in the past three decades,” says Gaffield. “I feel honoured to have been chosen to represent a vast number of students and professors who are developing innovative ways to enhance our understandings of Canada in all its diversity and complexity.”