Dr. Jarett Henderson, who defended his doctoral dissertation in the Graduate History Program in September 2010, has won a two-year L. R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University (joining GHP grad Dan Horner, the only other winner of this fellowship this year). Dr. Henderson will use his fellowship to publish his dissertation and work on a new project entitled “Convicts, Colonists, […]
Dr. Dan Horner (York, GHP 2010) has won two postdoctoral fellowships for this year. He is currently enjoying a six-month postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leicester, at their Centre for Urban History. He was also just awarded an L.R. Wilson Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McMaster University, which will begin on July 1 and last for two years. Dan Horner […]
Doug Hay has just informed the department of the recent publication of his detailed edition of the records of the King’s Bench for the county of Staffordshire: Criminal Cases on the Crown Side of King’s Bench: Staffordshire, 1740-1800 (Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 4th ser., vol. 24, Staffordshire Record Society, 2010). It runs to 580 pages, […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy on the news that last night at the opening session of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of African Studies, being held here at York, he was honoured by the Association with a Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award for his distinguished research, teaching and activism on African issues throughout his career. This award was […]
For two York professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching. York Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and York Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy will be presented with the […]
Department of History congratulates Michele Johnson most warmly on the publication of “They do as as they please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after Morant Bay, a book she has co-authored with Brian L. Moore, Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgage University. The book (580 pp.) was published by the […]
Department of History congratulates Tom Cohen on the appearance of his English translation/revised edition of Irene Fosi’s Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500 – 1750 (Catholic University of America Press, 2011, xi + 272 pp.). For full details, see http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=fopj. Tom has explained that the book is not a literal translation of the original; […]
The Department of History congratulates SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Dr Stuart Henderson, most warmly on the recent publication of his first book, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (University of Toronto Press, 384 pp.). It was launched in great groovy style at the Gladstone Hotel last night, with several York historians (faculty and graduate […]
President Shoukri has recently sent his letter to our colleague Marlene Shore informing her that he has with pleasure accepted the recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be promoted to the rank of Full Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. In his letter President Shoukri comments on her reputation […]
Department of History is delighted to announce that yet another of our doctoral students has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship, which brings our tally to 4 for this year. Dr. Jennifer Ellison won a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University to work on a project entitled “Feminist Activism and the Promise of […]