The Department of History congratulates Bettina Bradbury for winning the Clio Quebec book award for the best book published on Quebec history in 2011 for her book Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press, 2011)
Carolyn Podruchny receives 2012 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant The Department of History congratulates Carolyn Podruchny, Director of the Graduate Programme in History, for receiving a 2012 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. She has won three years of funding for a project, “Mapping the contours of identity in the Trottier Brigade: Métis mentalities and materialities in northwestern […]
The Department of History congratulates Bill Wicken’s on the publication of his latest book:, The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy, University of Toronto Press (328 pp.). Here’s a brief description of the volume: In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Jessica van Horssen, currently a postdoctoral fellow in Quebec Environmental History at McGill University and the Université de Québec à Trois Rivières and visiting fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, has accepted York’s offer of […]
The Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the publication of his latest book: Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (240 pp.) has just been published by Routledge. For further details, see http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415874106/. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in […]
Bradley Skopyk, who earned his PhD from the Graduate History Program in December 2010, has won the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2012! Dr. Skopyk’s dissertation, “Undercurrents of Conquest: The Shifting Terrain of Indigenous Agriculture in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico,” was supervised by the late Elinor Melville and Richard […]
Six graduate students from York’s Department of History are currently conducting archival research at the Sierra Leone Public Archives in Sierra Leone to help preserve endangered documents and repatriate historical material to the country. Master’s degree candidates Myles Ali, Chantelle Flowers and Shoshawnah Ross Lautenschlager, along with PhD candidates Katrina Keefer, Jeffrey Gunn and Augustin […]
Department of History congratulates Myra Rutherdale on the publication of her latest book. Caregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada, a collection of eleven essays edited by Myra, was published yesterday (April 19) by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Here’s the press’s description of the volume: Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine […]
The History department is delighted to announce that GHP student Alia Paroo has won a tenure-track position in the History Department at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas) in African and Islamic History. Last week, she defended her doctoral dissertation “Aga Khan III and the British Empire: The Ismalis in Tanganyika, 1920-1957,” supervised by Professor […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is delighted to welcome Dr. Boyd Cothran (B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012), currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies at Macalester College, to a tenure‐stream position in United States History at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, […]