Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all wish to join me in congratulating our former PhD student, Douglas Hunter, on the recent announcement that he has won Canada’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Fine Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences category from the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies/Association canadienne pour les études supérieures. He is the first York PhD student […]
Dear historians, It gives me enormous pleasure to convey the news that last week the Royal Society of Canada announced its list of new Fellows for 2016 and that our recently retired colleague Doug Hay was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences. This is further evidence of the very high regard in […]
Article Credit: Y-File Long-serving York University Professor Emeritus Orest Subtelny passed away in Toronto on Sunday, July 24. Subtelny joined the Department of History in 1982 to take up a position that was in part funded by the Canadian Ukrainian community. Throughout his York career until his retirement in 2015, he was cross-appointed […]
Article credit: Y-File York University history Professor Craig Heron has earned multiple awards for his 2015 book, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City, which explores the realities and struggles of the city of Hamilton’s working class. Craig Heron In addition to receiving the designation of Book of the Year by the International Labor History Association earlier this year, […]
It is with great sadness that I must inform you that Ramsay Cook, a distinguished member of the History Department from 1969 to 1996, passed away on 14 July 2016. Born in Alameda, Saskatchewan, Ramsay Cook began his academic career by taking his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1954. He […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that a new postdoctoral fellow will be spending the 2016-17 academic year with us thanks to funding provided by our colleague Adrian Shubert’s Killam Fellowship. Dr Matthew Kerry will be joining the Department officially as of July 1, but effectively from August. In addition […]
The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) recognized several members of York University’s History Department and graduate program with prestigious awards at the CHA Annual Prize Ceremonies late last month in Calgary. The Public History Group of the Canadian Historical Associate awarded the Public History Award to ActiveHistory.ca. The award recognizes work that achieves high standards of original research, scholarship, and presentation; […]
Dear members of the Department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Jonathan Edmondson’s latest book: Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (edited with Alison Keith- U of T Press, 368 pages) Here’s a brief description of the volume http://www.utppublishing.com/Roman-Literary-Cultures-Domestic-Politics-Revolutionary-Poetics-Civic-Spectacle.html. Drawing on the historicizing […]