"[1] In 1909, Sylvia Thrupp, with her parents, sister, and brother, immigrated to Kamloops, British Columbia from England.
thesis, supervised by Walter Noble Sage[2] (1888–1971),[3] is entitled History of the Cranbook District in East Kootenary.
in 1929 Thrupp obtained a scholarship to study at the University of London, where she was taught by Hilda Johnstone, Eliza Jeffries Davis, and Michael Postan.
Her thesis A Study of the Merchant Class of Medieval London in the Fifteenth Century with special reference to the Company of Grocers was completed in June 1931.
Her examiners in her defense of her thesis were Michael Postan, Arthur Hermann Thomas (1877–1971), and Eileen Power (who was for many years a friend and mentor to Sylvia Thrupp).
[2] For the academic year 1944–1945, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[4] upon written recommendations made by Michael Postan, Frank Knight, N. S. B. Gras, Edwin Francis Gay, R. M. MacIver, and Frederic C. Lane.
At the University of Michigan, Thrupp held her professorial chair and continued as editor-in-chief of CSSH until her retirement as professor emerita in 1974.