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 Self-Esteem.” […]
Four professors, representing a cross-section of York University graduate programs, were recently honoured for excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to graduate teaching at York. Presenting the awards at the April 7 meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dean Douglas Peers said, “Presenting the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Awards recognizing contributions of our […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is delighted to welcome Dr Sean Kheraj (Ph.D., York, 2008), currently a limited‐term Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University in Calgary, to a tenure‐stream position in Canadian History at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2011. Dr Kheraj works in the field of environmental history, […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy on this publication of his latest book. Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, a volume of essays edited by Paul in collaboration with Mariana Candido (Princeton U.) and Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), has just appeared in The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, published by Africa World Press […]
The Department just today received news that President Shoukri has informed Joan Judge that it is with pleasure that he has 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 Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. Joan’s file was replete with […]
History Department has recently heard that two of the candidates it supported for SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships have won fellowships in this year’s competition. These fellowships are highly competitive and their success is a clear mark of their scholarly promise. It will be stimulating to have them join the community of historians at York for two […]
The History Department extends profoundest thanks to the organizing committee for their splendid work in ensuring that yesterday’s Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture by Dr Christopher Morris was such a success. Our sincerest thanks to Carolyn Podruchny, Colin Coates, Rachel Koopmans and, most of all, Myra Rutherdale for all their work, and to Tom Peace and Jim Clifford for their assistance too. Dr […]
Department of History congratulates the organizers and participants of this year’s Graduate History Conference, New Frontiers. The sessions were exciting, combining interesting papers with lively question-and-answer periods. One of the many highlights of the event was Friday night’s keynote address by Professor Ian McKay of Queen’s University. A leading cultural historian, Professor McKay delivered an intriguing paper that was extremely well […]
Christopher Morris, professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the featured speaker in the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History sponsored by York’s Department of History and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Right: Christopher Morris On Wednesday, March 2, from 4 to 6:30pm, Morris will present a lecture […]
Department of History is glad to notify that Doctoral candidate Tom Peace has won a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! Tom’s postdoctoral project is entitled “Indigenous Education along the St. Lawrence and great Lakes after the Seven Year’s War,” which he will hold at Dartmouth College under the supervision of Colin Calloway. Tom is in the final stages of completing his dissertation, […]