{"id":169787,"date":"2021-02-26T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=169787"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:42:36","slug":"in-memoriam-paul-canning-associate-professor-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/02\/in-memoriam-paul-canning-associate-professor-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Paul Canning, Associate Professor of History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Paul Canning<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u201971 MA<\/span><\/i>, associate professor of history, passed away yesterday<\/span><\/i>. Born in\u00a0<\/span><\/i>1947, Canning grew up in Spokane, Washington. He <\/span><\/i>earned\u00a0<\/span><\/i>an MA in history at UConn before earning his\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Ph.D. in\u00a0<\/span><\/i>history at<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>the University of Washington<\/span><\/i>\u00a0in 1976<\/span><\/i>. A celebration of his life will be\u00a0<\/span><\/i>held this summer in Spokane. Canning<\/span><\/i>\u2019s colleagues\u00a0<\/span><\/i>pay tribute to him in<\/span><\/i> this article.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of\u00a0<\/span>Paul Canning<\/span> \u201971 MA, associate professor of history at <\/span>UConn Hartford<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0He spent the last week in hospice<\/span>\u00a0with his\u00a0<\/span>partner\u00a0<\/span>and children.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A specialist in Irish and British history,\u00a0<\/span>Canning was the author of several articles and\u00a0<\/span>British<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Policy Towards Ireland, 1921-1941<\/span><\/i>, an insightful study of the aftermath of the independence of the Republic of Ireland.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After teaching at Gonzaga University in Washington and Marymount University in Virginia, he returned to UConn as a faculty member in the fall of 1985, and taught for 35 years at UConn Hartford.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Canning was an associate professor of history at UConn Hartford for 35 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201c<\/span>[Canning<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>was<\/span>\u00a0a<\/span>]<\/span>\u00a0wonderful interlocutor, a careful thinker about the high politics of empire and those who resisted and suffered it, and a deeply committed teacher,\u201d sa<\/span>id<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Brendan Kane,\u00a0<\/span>associate professor of history<\/span>\u00a0and literatures, cultures, and languages.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canning\u00a0<\/span>taught a broad range of courses in European history to generations of students. Even\u00a0<\/span>during<\/span>\u00a0the difficulties of this past year, several students wrote\u00a0<\/span>to the<\/span>\u00a0department to praise the care and enthusiasm he put into his work with them online.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have worked with Paul for over 20 years and will miss his smile,\u201d Hartford Associate Campus Director Nadine Brennan wr<\/span>ote<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cHe had a nurturing and gentle spirit that drew people to him.\u00a0 He had a lasting impact on hundreds of students with his\u00a0<\/span>teaching and<\/span>\u00a0will be missed dearly.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPaul was such a gentle man<\/span>,\u201d said Professor Walt\u00a0<\/span>Woodward<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA<\/span>\u00a0treasured scholar and teacher, Paul was and always will be a light of kindness and generosity for his colleagues and students,\u201d Hartford Campus Director Mark Overmyer-Vel\u00e1zquez\u00a0<\/span>said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span>\u00a0UConn<\/span>\u00a0History Department mourns the loss of Professor Canning and extends condolences to his\u00a0<\/span>partner,\u00a0<\/span>Anita Costanzo, his children, and his family.\u00a0<\/span>Canning\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>family will\u00a0<\/span>hold<\/span>\u00a0a celebration of his life this summer in Spokane, Washington<\/span>. D<\/span>etails\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/span>forthcoming<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Canning, a professor of history at UConn Hartford for 35 years, is remembered by his colleagues in this memorial tribute.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":50011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-169787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 18:46:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169791,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169787\/revisions\/169791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/50011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169787"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=169787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=169787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}