Karolyn Smardz Frost will head to Yale University in August as a visiting scholar in Canadian studies for the next academic year. Smardz Frost is the senior research fellow for African Canadian history at York’s Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. She is the author of I’ve Got a […]
Department of History congratulates two of our current MA students who belatedly received SSHRC scholarships for their MAs: Michael Martins, who is working in the area of women in ancient Rome with Jonathan Edmondson, and Garry Smolyansky, who is working on Jewish immigrants to the GTA with Michael Brown. Both Garry and Michael did their […]
On Thursday, March 1, the Faculty of Graduate Studies honoured Professors Joel Katz and Paul Lovejoy for their excellence in graduate teaching and mentoring at York University. The two professors were each presented with a Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award at the the meeting of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council. In introducing the […]
Dr Karolyn Smardz Frost, our part-time colleague in History and research associate at the Harriet Tubman Institute, has been appointed as the Canadian Bicentennial Fellow in Canadian Studies in the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University for the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellowship comes with a courtesy appointment in the History Department […]
James McCann, professor of history at Boston University, will visit York’s Keele campus March 7 to give the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History. His talk, “Africa’s Malarial Landscapes: History, Complexity and Silver Bullets”, is sponsored by the Department of History in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and starts at 4:30pm in […]
Boyd Cothran, who has recently successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Minnesota and currently has a limited-term appointment at Macalester College, has enthusiastically accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department, effective July 1, 2012. Boyd Cothran earned his B.A. in History at […]
On behalf of entire History Department, I’d like to congratulate Amanda, Yvgeni and all the other members of the UHSA Executive for the splendid UHSA conference that you organized on Saturday. It was very professionally run. The programme was impressively broad: from the Ancient world to Marie Antoinette to the Armenian genocide to Turkmenistan to […]
Department of History congratulates Graduate Program in History for their wonderful New Frontiers conference this past weekend. With 104 presentations organized into 35 sessions, with presenters from as far away as the UK (University of Aberdeen, Newcastle University), the east coast (St. Mary’s University, Boston College), the U.S south (Florida State University, Tulane, the University […]
President Shoukri has recently informed our colleague Bettina Bradbury that he has with great pleasure accepted the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be promoted to the rank of Full Professorretroactively with effect from July 1, 2011. In his letter President Shoukri comments on her tremendous […]
CTV Clip featuring Sakis Gekas can be found here