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Congratulations to Gilberto Fernandes, Daniel Ross and Tom Hooper for yesterday’s Community Conversation: The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ murder changed Toronto
Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in congratulating all those involved in yesterday evening’s Community Conversation with the Toronto Portuguese community on “The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ Murder Changed Toronto” and, in particular, its main organizer, our former PhD student and now postdoctoral fellow, Gilberto Fernandes. The event took […]
Jonathan Edmondson to receive title of Distinguished Research Professor
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear members of the History Department, I am delighted to report that the Senate Awards Committee has recommended our Chair, Jonathan Edmondson, for a Distinguished Research Professorship. The Senate Committee notes that the file “contains high praise for the international impact of his prolific, original scholarly research, his contributions to the development […]
Congratulations to Dr Joseph Tohill on the publication of Shopping for Change
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, More good news. Our sessional colleague (and York History PhD ) Joseph Tohill has recently informed me of the publication of an important new volume, Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possiblities of Purchasing Power, co-edited by himself and Louis Hyman (Between the Lines Books/Cornell Univ. Press, 380 pp.). […]
Congratulations to Craig Heron on winning the 2017 CAUT Lee Lorch Award
<!–Notes ACF –> The Department of History warmly congratulates our colleague Craig Heron on winning this year’s Lee Lorch Award (formerly the Distinguished Scholar Ward) of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). CAUT presented the award at a banquet in Ottawa on Friday 5 May 2017. At the ceremony Craig then delivered an address […]
Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Department of History Essay Prize Winners
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting), On behalf of this year’s Awards Committee, Ben Kelly, Rachel Koopmans and Kalman Weiser, I am delighted to report that the following students have won prizes for the 2016-2017 competition. Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ […]