Dear Colleagues: What better way to start the new academic term than with an announcement of yet another book? This time it is an edited volume by our colleague, Alan Durston. Please join me in congratulating Alan on this wonderful achievement. Here is a brief description: Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin […]
Rachel Koopmans has received a highly competitive award from the British Academy for six months of research as a Visiting Fellow in the UK. The abstract for the award is as follows: “Rachel Koopmans’ research is focused on the eight ‘miracle windows’ of Canterbury Cathedral, a magnificent series of stained glass windows (dating ca. 1200) […]
Our colleague Edward Jones-Imhotep has just won the most prestigious book prize on the history of technology — the Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, for his book The Unreliable Nation. The prize will be awarded in October at the society’s annual meeting. I include a description of […]
Source: YFile – August 19, 2018 (for full article) York University Professors Jennifer Steele, Gabrielle Slowey and Joan Judge have earned Massey College appointments for the 2018-19 academic year. Steele, of the Faculty of Health, was awarded a York-Massey Fellowship, while York-Massey Visiting Scholarships were awarded to Slowey and Judge, both of the Faculty of […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies PhD students Leigha Comer and Natasha Henry have been awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years to support their research projects. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and/or […]
Congratulations to the 2018-19 Winners for the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE), including History majors: Camila Acosta (Supervised by Prof. Naomi Adelson); Bradley Dale (Supervised by Prof. David Koffman); Valaruthy Indran (Supervised by Prof. Sandra Widmer); Michael Reynolds (Supervised by Prof. David Mutimer). Two non-History majors and award winners were supervised by Professors […]
In light of the passage of the federal government’s historic bill on recreational cannabis use, TVO The Agenda’s Steve Paikin interviewed history Professor Marcel Martel about the massive shift in public perception throughout history surrounding the soon-to-be legal drug. This segment of The Agenda entitled Pot Prohibition: A Long, Strange Trip, had three guests, including […]
Congratulations to Paul Lovejoy on his new book: Laços Atlânticos: África e africanos durante a era do comércio transatlântico de escravos: Atlantic Ties:Africa and Africans during the era of the transatlantic slave trade edited by Carlos Liberato, Mariana P. Candido, Paul Lovejoy and Renée Soulodre-La France The book is a collection of essays by […]
Congratulations to Adrian Shubert on his new book: Nueva historia de la España contemporánea (1808-2018) edited by José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert This is a new history of modern Spain, presented in all its political and cultural diversity. The volume is structured along three interconnecting axes. The first part consists of seven […]
Source : YFile Article – June 13, 2018 An international conference held last month marked the work and contributions one of York University’s leading scholars, Professor Emeritus Nicholas Rogers. Professor Emeritus Nicholas Rogers “Crowds, Crime and Popular Politics in Britain and its Empire,” held on May 24 and 25, honoured the work of Rogers, […]