Accolades

Congratulations to Gilberto Fernandes, Daniel Ross and Tom Hooper for yesterday’s Community Conversation: The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ murder changed Toronto

Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in congratulating all those involved in yesterday evening’s Community Conversation with the Toronto Portuguese community on “The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ Murder Changed Toronto” and, in particular, its main organizer, our former PhD student and now postdoctoral fellow, Gilberto Fernandes. The event took […]

Roman Historian Jonathan Edmondson Receives the Title of Distinguished Research Professor at the 2017 Convocation Ceremonies

Young historians reflect on Canadian history during Canada150 event at York

Passings: Former Chancellor Avie Bennett remembered as ‘best spirit of York University’

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Jonathan Edmondson to receive title of Distinguished Research Professor

<!–Notes ACF –> Dear members of the History Department, I am delighted to report that the Senate Awards Committee has recommended our Chair,  Jonathan Edmondson, for a Distinguished Research Professorship. The Senate Committee notes that the file “contains high praise for the international impact of his prolific, original scholarly research, his contributions to the development […]

Congratulations to Dr Joseph Tohill on the publication of Shopping for Change

<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, More good news.  Our sessional colleague (and York History PhD ) Joseph Tohill has recently informed me of the publication of an important new volume, Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possiblities of Purchasing Power, co-edited by himself and Louis Hyman (Between the Lines Books/Cornell Univ. Press, 380 pp.). […]

Congratulations to Craig Heron on winning the 2017 CAUT Lee Lorch Award

<!–Notes ACF –> The Department of History warmly congratulates our colleague Craig Heron on winning this year’s Lee Lorch Award (formerly the Distinguished Scholar Ward) of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).  CAUT presented the award at a banquet in Ottawa on Friday 5 May  2017. At the ceremony Craig then delivered an address […]

Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Essay Prize Winners

DEPARTMENT AWARDS Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs,  ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST 1040: The Presence of the Past, Jennifer Bonnell) Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 2000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘Perceptions of the Falklands War’ (HIST 2400: British History from the Tudors to Thatcher, Nick Rogers […]

Michael Primiani co-creates website on Yorkville’s Folk Music Past

Michael Primiani is a fourth-year History major and a student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course. This past semester, he worked with Stacy-Allison Cassin, the W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at Scott Library, to research, curate and develop a digital exhibit focusing on three coffeehouses and the role they played in the […]