YFile Article – March 7, 2017 York University PhD candidate Bruno Véras has earned the Antonieta de Barros Award for the promotion of racial and gender equity in Brazil. The award recognizes 30 initiatives or communication projects promoting racial equality and overcoming racism. Véras is a grad student in the Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional […]
History Professor William Wicken, and author of “The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy,” was interviewed about the government pardon of the first elected Mi’kmaw Grand Chief, Gabriel Sylliboy. Read more about the pardon and watch the interview here.
Ahmed Hussen, a graduate of York University’s history program, is Canada’s new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Hussen, now 40, arrived in Canada at age 16 as a refugee and was sworn in as immigration minister on Jan. 10, 2017. He is a Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of York South-Weston and […]
Ahmed Hussen, a graduate of York University’s history program, is Canada’s new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Hussen, now 40, arrived in Canada at age 16 as a refugee and was sworn in as immigration minister on Jan. 10, 2017. He is a Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of York South-Weston and […]
Dear colleagues and graduate students, Historians will be interested to read the Y-File story that has just been posted today: http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/01/10/markham-museum-internships-give-york-students-experience-in-the-competitive-field-of-public-history/ about the great opportunities that our History colleague Jennifer Bonnell’s course on Public History (AP/HIST 4840 6.0, Public History) is creating for York students. The article focuses on two students who interned last […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of our colleague Sakis Gekas’ latest book, Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016, 380 pp.) This is how the press describes the volume: Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear colleagues, I’m sure you will wish to join me in congratulating our colleague Paul Lovejoy on the publication of his most recent book: Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (Ohio University Press, 2016, 396 pp.). <!–Notes ACF –> <!–Notes ACF –> This is how the press describes the […]
YFile Article VP Academic announces Canada150@York projects Vice-President Academic and Provost Rhonda Lenton announces the results of a call for applications for funding of Canada 150 @ York projects: Dear colleagues: Earlier this year, President Shoukri and I issued a call for applications for funding for projects to contribute to the celebration here at […]
Congratulations to José Curto and Tracy Lopes (José’s graduate student) for the publication of their jointly-edited volume, Angola: Then and Now, published recently as a special issue of the journal Portuguese Studies Review vol. 23.2. Further details about the volume are available at : http://www.maproom44.com/psr/23_2.html. The volume takes its origins from a conference organized at […]