Dear members of the History Department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell won an award of excellence at the 2015 Heritage Toronto Awards for her book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014). Here is the citation composed by the awards […]
Dear members of the History Department, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague Jaclyn Neel on the appearance of her latest book: Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome (Brill, 2015). Here’s how the press describes the book: “In Legendary Rivals, Jaclyn Neel argues for a […]
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Dear members of the Department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Joan Judge’s latest book: Republican Lens. Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015). Here’s a brief description of the volume: What can we learn about modern Chinese […]
Dear colleagues, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague, Sean Kheraj, who received the LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship – Emerging Researcher. Here’s the citation composed by the awards committee: Professor Kheraj has exceptional academic and public reach as an inspiring, innovative and dynamic Canadian environmental historian. […]
Dear members of the department, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague Alexia Yates on the appearance of her new book: Selling Paris. Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-De-Siècle Capital (Harvard, 2015) This is how the press describe the volume (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088214) In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged […]