Dear historians, I’m sure you will all be as thrilled as I am to hear that our colleague Craig Heron has just heard that he will receive the 2017 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award next May. Here is an extract from the recommendation of the CAUT Award Committee, which has now been accepted by CAUT Council: […]
<!–Notes ACF –> I’m sure you’ll join me in congratulating Rachel Koopmans on her induction today into the ranks of the Royal Society of Canada as a member of the College of New Scholars. To celebrate Rachel’s induction, LA&PS has produced a video featuring her latest research: see https://youtu.be/IxJf684Kthw On behalf of the Department, many […]
The below is an excerpt from the October 18 YFile. Read the full article here. LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship “This year’s winners embody the insatiable quest of true scholars to continuously pose new questions and as well, to serve as public intellectuals on critical contemporary questions,” said Mukherjee-Reed. “It […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, I am very pleased to be able to share with you now further good news for the Department on the research front. Last week SSHRC announced the results of the 2015 SSHRC Insight Grant competition (on the York campus, as it transpired: see http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2016/09/11/york-university-researchers-receive-more-than-7-million-in-sshrc-awards/). One of the twenty-five York projects […]
Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all wish to join me in congratulating our former PhD student, Douglas Hunter, on the recent announcement that he has won Canada’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Fine Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences category from the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies/Association canadienne pour les études supérieures. He is the first York PhD student […]
Dear historians, It gives me enormous pleasure to convey the news that last week the Royal Society of Canada announced its list of new Fellows for 2016 and that our recently retired colleague Doug Hay was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences. This is further evidence of the very high regard in […]
It is with great sadness that I must inform you that Ramsay Cook, a distinguished member of the History Department from 1969 to 1996, passed away on 14 July 2016. Born in Alameda, Saskatchewan, Ramsay Cook began his academic career by taking his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Manitoba in 1954. He […]