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Alumni Story: Samantha Summers

Samantha Summers is the Manager of Individual Giving for the Toronto International Film Festival, where she manages the grassroots and intermediate giving portfolios. Prior to this she worked in a fundraising capacity for small museums and heritage sites, and in communications. She has a deep love for fundraising in the arts, and in July 2021 she defended her thesis, “Divestment in Times of Change: The Loss of Major Donors in Art Galleries,” at the University of Toronto.

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Queen’s History Alumni have a long record of outstanding achievements. Our alumni can be found in every walk of life: not only among professional historians, history teachers, museum curators and archivists, but among lawyers, consultants, public policy analysts, journalists, writers and more. Wherever your History degree has taken you, we want to hear from you!

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Alumni News

Matthew Barrett (PhD 2019) publishes new book on military history

Matthew Barrett has published a new book, Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914-45, with UBC Press as part of the Studies in Canadian Military History series.

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Matthew Barrett (PhD 2019) and Robert Engen (PhD 2014) publish new graphic history of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War

Queen's University History alumni Matthew Barrett (PhD 2019) and Robert C. Engen (PhD 2014) have co-authored a new graphic history book called Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War.