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Department of History Assistant Professor curates self-guided walking tours to share a glimpse of Black History in Toronto

Two self-guided walking tours are now available, highlighting what life was like for Black individuals in the old Town of York (later Toronto) centuries ago. Natasha Henry-Dixon, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, has curated these tours to make the history of Black life in slavery and freedom in this major city more accessible. […]

Department of History MA student work featured in Archives Association of Ontario’s quarterly publication

Congratulations to History MA student Lex Flavelle, whose permanent digital exhibition, Coming Up Aces: Asexual Voices in the Archives, was featured in the Fall 2024 edition of the Archives Association of Ontario’s quarterly periodical, Off the Record. Flavelle developed the digital exhibition, which is hosted by the ArQuives, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives, as part of a 2023 […]

Book by History Professor Jennifer Bonnell wins two writing awards in 2024

Associate Professor Jennifer Bonnell, from the Department of History, won two awards for her book, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2023). The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) awarded Bonnell with the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. The award, that includes a $2,500 prize, is the […]

New Podcast on Iraq’s History from Dr. Thabit Abdullah Now Available to Stream

Department of History Professor Thabit Abdullah is the creator and host of the podcast, Afaq fi Tarikh al-Iraq (Horizons in Iraq’s History). Each episode features an interview with a historian and covers various topics in the history of Iraq from the early medieval pre-Islamic period to the present. The podcast’s primary audience are Iraqis and the […]

The History Department’s Professor David S. Koffman co-edited and contributed to new book bringing two Jewish diaspora communities into dialogue together

David S. Koffman, the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and Associate Professor in the Department of History, co-edited and contributed to a new publication, Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation, which spotlights a conversation between two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of […]

Professor Joshua Fogel honoured at the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration

History Department Professor Joshua Fogel was among several LA&PS faculty honoured at the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration. The York University Research Award Celebration honours York’s scholars across all faculties and schools for their remarkable achievements and contributions to creating positive change.. Read the full story

Our colleague Angela Hug has received the Mark Golden Book Award for her book Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (Brill, 2023) from the Classical Association of Canada.

Angela Hug provides an ambitious, wide-ranging, and fascinating exploration of fecunditas, a concept integral to the social existence of Roman women, and, through them, of Roman men. Drawing from an impressive array of literary, inscriptional, and numismatic evidence, Hug elucidates how attending to both biological realities and social interpretations of fertility informs our understanding of […]

Dr Aitana Guia returns to York U as the inaugural MacKenzie-Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History, July 2025

The Department of History is happy to announce that Dr Aitana Guia, presently Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton, will be joining the department as the inaugural MacKenzie-Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History on 1 July 2025.  Dr. Guia is an expert on 20th century Spanish History with extensive experience teaching the Spanish Civil […]