Dear historians, It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that our colleague in Modern European history Deborah Neill last week received an official letter from President Mamdouh Shoukri confirming his pleasure in accepting the recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be granted tenure and […]
Dear colleagues, I am excited to relay the news that History PhD 5 student Pamela Fuentes won the inaugural Anne Simone Graduate Student Award and received it at LA&PS Faculty Council on 11 April. As many of you know, Anne Simone has worked for years at York at Schulich and for many years has served […]
Dear colleagues, While the Graduate Program in History has had much to cheer about this year with three of its recent PhDs successfully making their way into tenure-track positions, it is nevertheless important to recognize that many of our doctoral students have found their way into great jobs outside of academia, and will continue to […]
On behalf of the entire History Department, I’d like to thank all those who were involved in yesterday’s very successful History Teachers’ Workshop. It was a very enlightening and congenial day, with an excellent mix of faculty members, graduate student TAs, undergraduate students and, of course, our guests – the high-school history teachers. I’d like […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is very pleased to announce that Dr Aitana Guia Conca, currently a sessional lecturer in European Studies at the University of Guelph, has recently accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment in Modern Europe at the rank of Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department, effective for two years commencing […]
It’s a pleasure to relate news of the short-listing of PhD II student Mary Janigan’s book, “Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark”, for the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. She stands in a field of strong competitors. Many congratulations! Donner Prize Shortlist Announcement – Embargoed
The Department of History is pleased to announce that David Koffman, currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, has enthusiastically accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department, effective July 1, 2013. On gaining tenure and promotion, he […]
It is with great pleasure to relate news of job market successes for three recent PhDs from the Graduate History Program. Jason Ellis has recently been appointed to a tenure-track position in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, beginning in July, while Maurice Demers has also won a tenure-track position at […]
Irving Abella Special to The Globe and Mail In the 1930s, at the beginning of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, an influential Jewish leader wrote that the world was divided into two parts – “those places where Jews could not live, and those they could not enter.” Canada fell into the latter category. To […]
The fourth installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) website. This episode is the second of two that examine the history of the environmental movement in Canada. On this episode, Sean speaks with a group of […]