The Unpredictable Gifts of Fortune.
Naomi Griffiths, a path-breaking scholar of Acadian history, has had a career shaped by both character and chance. Her "Life in History" traces an extraordinary set of circumstances that brought her from a childhood among British egalitarian pacifists to an undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 101; no. 2; pp. 263 - 283 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143222965&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143222965 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00083755 CHR jtl: Canadian Historical Review issn: 00083755 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2020 vid: 101 iid: 2 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 143222965 10.3138/chr.2019-0017 ppf: 263 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 147KB tig: atl: The Unpredictable Gifts of Fortune. aug: au: Griffiths, Naomi E.S. affil: Acadian history and professor emeritus of the Department of History at Carleton University su: Griffiths, Naomi Pacifists Scholarly method Acadians Fortune sug: subj: Griffiths, Naomi Pacifists Scholarly method Acadians Fortune keyword: Acadian history historical profession historiography Life in History histoire de l'Acadie historiographie La vie d'historien/ne profession d'historien ab: Naomi Griffiths, a path-breaking scholar of Acadian history, has had a career shaped by both character and chance. Her "Life in History" traces an extraordinary set of circumstances that brought her from a childhood among British egalitarian pacifists to an undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom, across the Atlantic to graduate school in New Brunswick, and then to a groundbreaking career at Carleton University. It is a story initially shaped by childhood bullying due to a long-undiagnosed disability (myopia), which forced her to develop resilience that later proved extremely useful over the course of her career. More than anything else, Griffiths believes her life and career has been one of extremely good fortune and deeply enriched by the generosity of her friends, colleagues, mentors, the members of the Acadian community who have supported her work, and the excellent students she had the good fortune to teach. Her approach to scholarship has been shaped by recognizing the shared humanity that we have with the people whose lives in the past we study, and she draws our attention to the need to be aware of one's own standpoint in the questions we ask and how we judge historical evidence. Spécialiste d'avant-garde en histoire de l'Acadie, Naomi Griffiths a eu une carrière marquée à la fois par son caractère et par le hasard. Sa « vie d'historienne » relate un ensemble de circonstances extraordinaires qui l'ont amenée, depuis son enfance vécue parmi des pacifistes égalitaires britanniques, à un diplôme de premier cycle au Royaume-Uni, puis, outre-Atlantique, à des études supérieures au Nouveau-Brunswick, et ensuite, à une carrière novatrice à l'Université Carleton. Sa vie a été façonnée dès l'enfance par les brimades subies à cause d'un handicap tardivement diagnostiqué (la myopie), ce qui l'a obligée à développer une résilience qui s'est révélée extrêmement utile tout au long de sa carrière. M Griffiths croit par-dessus tout avoir eu énormément de chance dans sa vie et dans sa carrière, celles-ci ayant été profondément enrichies par la générosité de ses amis, de ses collègues, de ses mentors, des personnes de la communauté acadienne qui ont appuyé son travail ainsi que des excellents étudiants qu'elle a eus. Sa vision de la recherche a été influencée par la reconnaissance de l'humanité que l'on a en commun avec les gens dont on étudie la vie. MGriffiths attire en outre l'attention sur la nécessité d'être conscient de son propre point de vue dans les questions que l'on pose et les jugements que l'on porte sur les témoignages historiques. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Historical Review is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Historical Review holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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