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Graduate History Program Newsletter November 2014
Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to report the latest assortment of news from the Graduate History Program. PhD and Comprehensive Exam Defenses • The following students have successfully defended their PhD dissertations since March 2014: Mark Abraham, “”You Are Your Own Alternative”: Performance, Pleasure, and the American Counterculture, 1965-1975,” supervised by Marc Stein. David […]
Professor Janice C.H. Kim and YCAR receive grant for lecture series
Former Standing Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ROK, Kim Dong-Choon and Professor Janice C.H. Kim, Dept. of History, York University – Oct. 22, 2014 In July 2014, Professor Janice C.H. Kim, along with the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), received a grant from the Korea Foundation to support the Heterogeneity and Korean […]
Another Book by Josh Fogel
Dear members of the department, I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in congratulating our colleague Josh Fogel for his book: Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E. Relic, Text, Object, Fake. Here’s a brief description of the volume: This new book is a carefully researched and wonderfully thoughtful exploration of the […]
Congratulations to our Colleague Paul Lovejoy on his new book
Dear members of the department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Paul Lovejoy’s latest book: Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonisation in Sierra Leone, a collection of essays co-edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and Suzanne Schwarz. Here’s a brief description of the volume: This volume […]
Professor William Wicken Testifies for Supreme Court Case
In May 2011, Dept. of History (York University) Professor William Wicken was one of two witnesses for the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples in the case of Harry Daniels v. the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development At trial before the Federal Court of Canada Professor Wicken led part of the historical evidence, which became […]
Congratulations to Jonathan Edmondson on his new book
Dear members of the department, I am sure that you will want to join me in congratulating our colleague and former chair Jonathan Edmondson on the publication of his latest book. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (edited with Christer Bruun, Oxford University Press, 2014). Here’s a brief description of the volume: Epigraphy, or the […]
Book Launch: Violence, Memory, and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht
On Wednesday, November 12th, the Department of History, Graduate History Program and Routledge Press held a book launch to mark the publication of Violence, Memory and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht, edited by Colin McCullough and Nathan Wilson. The event was held in the private dining hall of the Schulich School of Business at York […]