Molly Ladd-Taylor and I are pleased to announce that Jonathan Edmondson, the Chair of the History Department, will be honoured this week by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He won the “Premio Internacional Genio Protector de la Colonia Augusta Emerita,” which translates as “International Prize Protective Spirit of the colony of Augusta Emerita.” He will […]
Department of History congratulates Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, on the recent publication of his book Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 416 pp.). Here’s a full description of the volume: Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in […]
The History Department and the Graduate Program in History would like to congratulate Paul Lovejoy and the Tubman Institute most warmly for their highly successful 2011 Summer Institute, “Slavery, Memory, Citizenship,” which took place at York last week. (We’ve attached a PDF with full details of the programme.) With over a dozen keynote addresses by major scholars, presentations by […]
Department of History congratulates José Curto on the recent news that he has won a SSHRC Insight Development Grant of $60,000 for 2011-13 in the initial competition following the recent reorganization of SSHRC funding programmes. The grant will support a project entitled “Taking Graduate Students to the Archives: From Lisbon to Benguela”, which is designed to introduce York […]
York bestowed titles of the highest order upon four of its long-serving faculty members at Spring Convocation this year. Historian Nicholas Rogers and mathematician Jianhong Wu were named distinguished research professors for sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement largely accomplished at York. Political scientist David Dewitt and education scholar Don Dippo were named University […]
A couple of corrections to the biannual report from earlier this week: Our OGS numbers have risen from 21 to 23! Additions are continuing student Maria Wong and incoming MA student Lyla Abells. I also wanted to slightly clarify our PhD defenses. Since our last news letter we have had 4 defenses, but we have actually had 6 this […]
As part of a multi-legged visit to eastern North America, Korea Foundation president Byung-Kook Kim visited York and was thanked for the organization’s support of York’s Korean language studies program. In turn, history Professor Janice Kim travelled to South Korea to visit the foundation’s headquarters in Seoul, where she furthered the discussions started at York. The 20-year-old foundation, which supports […]
The biannual report from the Graduate Program in History can be found here
One of our recent PhD students, Jason Russell, began a tenure-track position at Empire State College – State University of New York – last summer as an Assistant Professor of Labour Studies! Dr. Russell defended his dissertation, “The Union Local in Post-Second World War Canada: A Case Study of of UAW / CAW Local 27 From 1950-1990” in […]
Department of History congratulates Steve Mason, just before he leaves York, on the wonderful news that he has recently been awarded a Alexander von Humboldt Research Award of EUR 60,000 “in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching”. These are very prestigious research awards, made by a major research foundation in Germany each year to 100 renowned academics […]