York University Professor of History Bernard Luk, author of numerous publications on modern East Asia, China, and Hong Kong, passed away at Sunnybrook Hospital on March 23 after suffering a stroke. He was a beloved teacher and colleague. After receiving his PhD in History from Indiana University in 1977, Bernard Luk taught at the Faculty […]
The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) honoured Kathryn McPherson for excellence in graduate teaching and mentoring with the Faculty’s Teaching Award at their Faculty Council meeting on May 7. “I’m delighted, honoured and very appreciative that my colleagues would put in the work for me to receive this award,” said Dr. McPherson beforehand. “I’m gratified […]
History Professor Alejandro G. Sinner and his summer study abroad students won first prize for best poster at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Sinner, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History, and his students from the study abroad course Roman Spain: Archaeology & […]
The Note to Self Project is a collection of 100 portraits that was developed in association with the Aurora Public Library Camera Club. Watch video
Award-winning historian James Daschuk will present a lecture on Sir John A. Macdonald’s policies toward First Nations of the Great Plains when he is featured in the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History at York U on Nov. 18. “Clearing the Plains and Clearing the Air: Environmental History and National Memory in 2015” will explore […]
Dear members of the History Department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell won an award of excellence at the 2015 Heritage Toronto Awards for her book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014). Here is the citation composed by the awards […]
Watch the Inspiring CBC News Report
Congratulations to first-year PhD student Kevin Chrisman, recipient of an Ontario Trillium Scholarship. Professor William Jenkins (left) Graduate Program Director in History with Kevin Chrisman at the annual Circle of Scholars reception on March 26. Read more
Gill Frank, a York alum who completed an undergraduate thesis with Marc Stein, received a Governor-General’s Award, then earned a PhD in American Civilization at Brown, and now is teaching at Stony Brook while holding an ACLS Fellowship, was in the news yesterday for challenging a Canadian rule that denies voting right to expat Canadians. […]