Craig Heron has now won four awards for his 2015 book Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. Three came in the last two weeks. The Canadian Historical Association awarded him the Clio Prize for Ontario, the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies gave him the 2015 Book of the Year award, and the Ontario […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Several members of the department and the graduate program received prestigious awards at the CHA Annual Prize Ceremonies that were held on May 31. 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; […]
Appearing at regular intervals in YFile, Open Your Mind is a series of articles offering insight into the different ways York University faculty champion fresh ways of thinking in teaching and research excellence. Their approach, grounded in a desire to seek the unexpected, is charting a new course for future generations. Today, the spotlight is […]
On the weekend of May 13-15, the History Department hosted the 12th annual Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop (GLOW). About 40 scholars arrived from the US and Canada to participate in a workshop on Ottoman history, languages, literature and cultures. This gathering has steadily grown to become one of the finest forums for a discussion of […]
On April 14th, 2016, The Supreme Court of Canada extended rights to Métis and non-status Indians in a landmark court case ending a 17-year court battle. Professor William Wicken from the Department of History at York University spent three years working on this court case and testified on behalf of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples […]
Craig Heron has won the International Labor History Association (ILHA) Book of the Year Award for 2015 for Lunch-Bucket Lives, Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines Press, Toronto, 2015) I am pleased to share the citation composed by the awards committee Since 1988 the ILHA has periodically recognized authors with a “Book of the […]
The Canadian Historical Association named history Professors Joan Judge and Alexia Yates to the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2016 short list. The prize recognizes an exceptional scholarly book in the field of history other than Canadian history. Read more…
I am sure you will join in congratulating Marcel in his two new publications. These are Le Canada français et la Confédération: Fondements et bilan critique avec Jean-François Caron. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2016. as well as the French translation of his book on Vice. Une Brève Histoire du Vice au Canada depuis 1500. […]
I am sure you will all want to join me in congratulating our colleague Paul Lovejoy and a former doctoral student, Vanessa S. Oliveira, on the publication of their new book Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship (Africa World Press, Inc. & The Red Sea Press, Inc. 2016) Here’s a short description of the book: This volume […]
Dear colleagues and graduate students, More good news! This morning I received a copy of a letter from the President, Dr Mamdouh Shoukri, confirming his enthusiastic agreement with the unanimous recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that our colleague, Professor Kathryn McPherson, be promoted to the rank of Professor, effective […]