External links
- Cynthia Comacchio publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Cynthia R. Comacchio | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 67–68) Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
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| Education | BA, Glendon College MA, history, York University PhD, history, 1987, University of Guelph |
| Thesis | “The Infant Soldier”: The Great War and the Medical Campaign for Child Welfare (1988) |
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| Institutions | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Cynthia R. Comacchio [a] FRSC (born 1957) is a Canadian historian. She is a professor emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2024.
Comacchio was born in 1957 [1] in Guelph,Ontario,Canada,to an Italian family. [2] She completed her Bachelor's degree at Glendon College,Master's degree at York University and her PhD at the University of Guelph. [3]
After finishing her PhD,Comacchio accepted an assistant professorship at Wilfrid Laurier University. [4] She was eventually promoted to full professor in 2000. [5] In this role,Comacchio received the 2002 Laurier Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. [6] After retiring in 2022, [7] Comacchio was appointed editor of the Ontario History Journal. [2] In 2024,Comacchio was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her "significant inroads into the historical cultures of the young." [8]
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