Jill Campbell-Miller

I graduated from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, N.S., with an honours in international development studies and a major in history.  I received the Gold Medal for the highest cumulative average in the 2005-2006 academic year in the Faculty of Arts.  After working as a Project Leader for Katimavik and finishing an internship in Zimbabwe for Canadian Crossroads International, I returned to school, entering the M.A. program in History at the University of Waterloo in the fall of 2007.  I completed a major paper under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Gorman entitled “Ex Unitate Vires: Elite Consolidation and the Union of South Africa, 1902-1910″.  I graduated in the fall of 2008, and also entered the PhD program in history at UW.  I am completing a major field in Canadian history, with minor fields in Race, Imperialism and Slavery and Colonialism, Development and Globalization.  I intend to study the history of Canadian and American foreign aid to India during the Cold War.  My supervisor is Dr. Bruce Muirhead.  I am also currently working for Dr. Muirhead as a student investigator for a SSHRC International Opportunities Fund grant, “Resource Dependent Communities in Old Economy Regions: The Role of Nature in Social Change, Adaptation and Resistance”.

Conference Presentations:

  • ‘Ex Unitate Vires’: Elite Consolidation and the Union of South Africa, 1902-1910″, 15th Annual Tri-University Program in History Conference, November, 2008
  • “Man and What World?:  The Modernization Project as Represented in the 1967 World Exposition and the 1968 Olympic Games”, 2nd Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Student Conference in Canadian Studies at Trent University. November, 2005.
  • “Democracy and Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka” at InSight: The Canadian National Students’ Conference in International Development Studies, June 2005