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Tom Cohen’s new book
Dear members of the History Department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Tom Cohen’s latest book: Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe, 1400-1700 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), a collection of essays co-edited by Tom and Lesley Twomey. Here’s a brief description of the volume: Spoken […]
Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Bonnell and Chris Armstrong
Dear members of the history department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell has won the 2014 Fred Landon Award, which honours the best book in local and regional history, for her book Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley, published by the University of Toronto […]
Congratulations to Bill Wicken – promotion to Full Professor
Dear members of the History Department, It is with great pleasure that I inform you that our colleague Bill Wicken last week received an official letter from President Mamdouh Shoukri confirming the recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective July […]
Congratulations to our colleague Sean Kheraj
Dear members of the Department, It is with great pleasure that I inform you that our colleague Sean Kheraj received an official letter from President Mamdouh Shoukri confirming the recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor effective July […]
The Department of History Welcomes Alexia Yates
The Department of History welcomes Alexia Yates, Visiting Professor of Modern French History! Alexia Yates is a historian of economic life, focusing on urban political economy and business history in Europe. As an urban historian, her work on private development in urban environments aims to add to our understanding of the spatiality of human life […]
In commemoration of Prof. Myra Rutherdale: conference paper now online
Dear colleagues in History, It is more than one year since we lost our colleague, Prof. Myra Rutherdale. Since then, PhD student Erin Dolmage and Prof. Carolyn Podruchny have expanded and published a conference paper that Myra had given in Israel before she passed. They have published it in Active History for the anniversary of […]