Dear members of the History Department, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell has been shortlisted for a book award offered by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year’s finalists are: Canada Prize in the Humanities: Jennifer L. Bonnell, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s […]
History Professor Alejandro G. Sinner and his summer study abroad students won first prize for best poster at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Sinner, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History, and his students from the study abroad course Roman Spain: Archaeology & […]
Dear members of the department, I am sure you will all wish to join me in congratulating our colleague, Jesús Bermejo Tirado, who is a postdoctoral fellow in Roman archaeology in the Department of History, on the publication of a new edited volume, Aplicaciones de Sintaxis Espacial en Arqueologia – Space Syntax Applications in Archaeology. […]
Episode 50: Canadian Energy History [54:06] Download Audio Since Confederation, Canadians have been high per capita energy consumers and our appetites for energy have grown substantially over the past 148 years. The way we consume energy has changed quite a bit over that time period too. In 1867, Canadians drew energy primarily from organic […]
Dear members of the History Department It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleague Boyd Cothran has won an award. His book, Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence, received the 2015 Robert M. Utley Prize from the Western History Association. The Utley is given annually by the […]
York University Professor Emeritus of history Richard Hoffmann won the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for his environmental trek through medieval Europe. The Canadian Society of Medievalists, an academic organization devoted to supporting research excellence in all facets of medieval studies, awarded the prize in honour of his book An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Cambridge […]