Department of History congratulates Dr. Ian Milligan on winning a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Postwar English-Canadian Youth Cultures: A Digital History, 1945-1990” which he will hold at the University of Western Ontario’s History Department under the supervision of Bill Turkel. Dr. Milligan, who was supervised by Craig Heron, defended his doctoral dissertation, “Rebel […]
Adrian Shubert has presented the Department with a copy of his latest book: a textbook, jointly written with Robert Justin Goldstein (Professor emeritus, Oakland University, Michigan and currently research associate at the Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), entitled Twentieth Century Europe, and published recently by […]
For 2,000 years, Chinese women have traditionally modelled themselves on the biographies of 124 women first recorded in 34BC. They include exemplary mothers, chaste, obedient and faithful wives, and eloquent speakers. The original biographies were repeatedly revised over the centuries and historians such as York’s Joan Judge are mining the variations – and a treasure […]
Department of History congratulates Deborah Neill on the appearance of her first book. Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930 has just been published by Stanford University Press (292 pp., 1 map, 9 figs.). Here’s a description of the volume: Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked […]
Department of History congratulates Dr. Bradley Skopyk on winning the 2012 American Society for Environmental Studies Rachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in environmental history. Only three students from outside the U.S. have ever won this prize, and they have all been from York’s Graduate History Program: Matthew Evenden in 2001, Liza Piper in […]
In ancient Athens, Demosthenes was the only politician to draft speeches before delivering them to the public assembly of citizens. Most orators spoke off-the-cuff when addressing this decision-making body in Greece’s most powerful city state – and earliest democracy – and left no record. So Demosthenes’ drafts, originally inked on papyrus, have served as a […]
Department of History congratulates Professor Paul Lovejoy for winning the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. Professor Lovejoy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, has had a long and distinguished career in research, service and teaching. He […]
Department of History congratulates Dr Dan Azoulay, who has been teaching History courses for us for a number of years, on the publication of his latest book, Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 (Univ. of Calgary Press, 300 pp. with 46 b/w photos). This is how the publisher describes the […]
It has been conveyed that the President has accepted the unanimous recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that Marc Stein be promoted to the rank of Full Professor -retroactively effective July 1, 2011. In his letter, the President comments on the originality and importance of Marc’s scholarship, not least in that he is […]
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