Holey Moley, it’s finally happening. Friday marked the official launch of the first of four tunnel-boring machines that will dig the route for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. After a 25-year wait, work to build the $2.4 billion subway line connecting York University and York Region with the city of Toronto is now underway. The start of work […]
All historians at York, I’m sure, will want to congratulate Bettina Bradbury on the appearance of her latest book, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. Just published by UBC Press, it studies two generations of women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 to explore the meaning of […]
Dr. Kristine Alexander, who earned her PhD in the Graduate History Program in November 2010, has won the Governor General’s Gold Medal in Graduate Studies at York! Dr. Alexander’s dissertation, entitled “The Girl Guide movement, Imperialism and Internationalism in Interwar England, Canada and India,” was supervised by Professor Bettina Bradbury. Currently holding as SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, […]
Dear colleagues, As you all know, today is officially Jean Levy’s last day as Administrative Assistant of the History Department. I expressed the Department’s deepest and heartfelt thanks to Jean at the splendid dinner in her honour at Le Montmartre last Wednesday, but for those who were not able to be present on that memorable […]
The good news for the Department continues to flow in…. At the Senate meeting President Shoukri announced that our long-standing colleague Nick Rogers will be one of two York faculty members to be honoured with the title of Distinguished Research Professor at the Spring Convocation for the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies on Wednesday 15 June […]
History Major Peter Salerno, currently the President of the Student Council of LAPS (SCOLAPS), was yesterday presented with the Martin Singer Award for Dedication to Student Engagement at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism. Peter has combined excellent work in History (nine straight As in his HIST courses to date) with a real commitment to student […]
Department of History congratulates part-time colleague Karolyn Smardz Frost in winning this year’s Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence (in the Professor category). The Ian Greene award, presented yesterday at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism, is decided upon as a result of nominations from LAPS students. There were 175 professors nominated and History’s Karolyn Smardz Frost […]
Department of History congratulates the Undergraduate History Students Association (UHSA), for winning this year’s Alumni Award for Commitment to Student Experience and Engagement. The UHSA has had another stellar year and the award, presented yesterday at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism, is so well deserved. Many congratulations to the UHSA Executive under the leadership of Garry […]
How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces? Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more are at the core of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by York postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]
The news from McMaster has come out in dribs and drabs, but it is worth noting that not only did our PhDs (Dan and Jarett) got both the postdocs offered this year, but also that our current SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Stuart Henderson, has just accepted a two-year CLA at the same centre.