Dr. Jenkins, an associate professor of Geography and a member of the Graduate Program in History since 2008, has been appointed as new Graduate Program Director in History. A graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Toronto, his published work initially focused on social and economic transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century rural Ireland. […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate Dr. Jim Clifford who has won a two-year postdoctoral fellowship on a Digging into Data Project called “Trading Consequences.” The project, a major research collaboration between York University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of St. Andrews, examines the environmental consequences of commodity trading during the […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Valerie Deacon, who defended her PhD dissertation in February 2011, has just won a position at New York University as the Elihu Rose Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in Military History. The position is for one year, and renewable for three years. Dr. Deacon’s dissertation, […]
The Department of History congratulates Bettina Bradbury on being short-listed for the 2012 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for her book: Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press, 2011). The award will be presented by the CHA at its Annual Meeting at the University of […]
The Department of History congratulates Kalman Weiser, Silber Chair in Modern Jewish East European and Holocaust Studies, for winning the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship for his recently published book, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (University of Toronto Press, 2011). The award will be presented […]
The Department of History offers warmest congratulations to all the York PhD History students involved in COLPAH for organizing a very successful 1st COLPAH Graduate Conference in Ancient History held Friday and Saturday (April 27-28, 2012) in Toronto. “From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History” was the theme, and […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Jaclyn Neel, who has recently completed her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Toronto, has accepted York’s offer of a one-year CLA appointment in Ancient History and Classics in the Departments of History and Humanities. Her doctoral dissertation was on “Creative history, political reality: […]
A new, substantially revised 3rd edition of Craig Heron’s well received book, The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History, has just appeared from Lorimer Publishing (256 pp.). It includes a completely new chapter, covering the period from 1995 to 2011, and several other updates throughout the text. For full details, please follow the link below: http://www.lorimer.ca/adults/Book/2358/The-Canadian-Labour-Movement.html
The Department of History congratulates Graduate History Program doctoral candidate Karlee Sapoznik, who was awarded the newly created Provost Dissertation Scholarship. This award allows students going into their fifth year of their PhD to concentrate exclusive on writing and competing their dissertations. Only ten were awarded across the university. Karlee has a long string of […]
The History Department is very pleased to announce that Jessica van Horssen, who will take up her 2-year CLA position in Canadian history on July 1, won this year’s Eugene Forsey Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. This prize is awarded for the best doctoral dissertation in labour history defended in […]