Accolades

Markham Museum internships give York students experience in the competitive field of public history

  Dear colleagues and graduate students, Historians will be interested to read the Y-File story that has just been posted today: http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/01/10/markham-museum-internships-give-york-students-experience-in-the-competitive-field-of-public-history/ about the great opportunities that our History colleague Jennifer Bonnell’s course on Public History (AP/HIST 4840 6.0, Public History) is creating for York students. The article focuses on two students who interned last […]

Congratulations to our colleague Sakis Gekas on the publication of Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864

<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of our colleague Sakis Gekas’ latest book, Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016, 380 pp.) This is how the press describes the volume: Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that […]

Congratulations to Paul Lovejoy on the publication of Jihad in West Africa

<!–Notes ACF –> Dear colleagues, I’m sure you will wish to join me in congratulating our colleague Paul Lovejoy on the publication of his most recent book: Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (Ohio University Press, 2016, 396 pp.). <!–Notes ACF –> <!–Notes ACF –> This is how the press describes the […]

Congratulations to Colin Coates, Sean Kheraj, David Koffman & Marcel Martel – Canada150@York Projects

YFile Article VP Academic announces Canada150@York projects Vice-President Academic and Provost Rhonda Lenton announces the results of a call for applications for funding of Canada 150 @ York projects:   Dear colleagues: Earlier this year, President Shoukri and I issued a call for applications for funding for projects to contribute to the celebration here at […]

Congratulations on Angola: Then and Now

Congratulations to José Curto and Tracy Lopes (José’s graduate student) for the publication of their jointly-edited volume, Angola: Then and Now, published recently as a special issue of the journal Portuguese Studies Review vol. 23.2. Further details about the volume are available at : http://www.maproom44.com/psr/23_2.html. The volume takes its origins from a conference organized at […]

Craig Heron – Recipient of the 2017 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award

Dear historians, I’m sure you will all be as thrilled as I am to hear that our colleague Craig Heron has just heard that he will receive the 2017 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award next May. Here is an extract from the recommendation of the CAUT Award Committee, which has now been accepted by CAUT Council: […]

Congratulations to Rachel Koopmans on her induction today in the RSC

<!–Notes ACF –> I’m sure you’ll join me in congratulating Rachel Koopmans on her induction today into the ranks of the Royal Society of Canada as a member of the College of New Scholars. To celebrate Rachel’s induction, LA&PS has produced a video featuring her latest research: see  https://youtu.be/IxJf684Kthw On behalf of the Department,  many […]

LA&PS professors celebrated for teaching and research excellence

  The below is an excerpt from the October 18 YFile.  Read the full article here. LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship “This year’s winners embody the insatiable quest of true scholars to continuously pose new questions and as well, to serve as public intellectuals on critical contemporary questions,” said Mukherjee-Reed. “It […]

Four York U students receive Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

Congratulations to our colleague Ben Kelly on the award of a SSHRC Insight Grant

<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, I am very pleased to be able to share with you now further good news for the Department on the research front. Last week SSHRC announced the results of the 2015 SSHRC Insight Grant competition (on the York campus, as it transpired: see http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2016/09/11/york-university-researchers-receive-more-than-7-million-in-sshrc-awards/).  One of the twenty-five York projects […]