Department of History is delighted to report that we have another winner of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Award in the Graduate History Program: Ian Mosby! Ian will hold his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Catherine Carstairs to work on the project “Engineering Dinner: Postwar Food Technology and the Industrial Transformation of the Canadian Diet.” Ian […]
Further testimony to the excellence of our Graduate Programme in History, coming hard on the heels of the news that another recent graduate Dr Mathieu Lapointe has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship from FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture), which he will hold at McGill University’s Department of Art History for two years.
[American slave girl Cecelia Jane Reynolds’] escape to Canada [in 1846] might have been forgotten by history had it not been for some remarkable letters preserved today, and now the basis of an upcoming book by archaeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost, of York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, wrote the Ottawa Citizen Feb. 16. She is […]
Marcel Martel has recently been informed by the President that he has accepted enthusiastically the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be promoted to the rank of Full Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. His file was replete with many fine assessments of the international significance of his highly […]
One of the recent PhD graduates has received a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship. Department of History congratulates Mathieu Lapointe, for his FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture), which he will hold at McGill University’s Department of Art History for two years. Under Professor Will Straw’s supervision, Dr. Lapointe will be studying Montreal’s “yellow press” […]
You will be interested to read on today’s Y-File an article about Alan Durston’s continuing research on Quechua, one of the indigenous languages of Latin America and still spoken in Peru and elsewhere. The article celebrates Alan’s winning of SSHRC’s Aurora Prize for the outstanding new researcher among all applicants to SSHRC’s Standard Research Grant programme in 2009-10. Again, […]
Although Quechua dates back to the time of the Incas and is spoken by millions in Peru, its success as a written language has been limited. Despite its official language status, it’s considered marginalized and is dogged by stigma and misconceptions. During the first half of the 20th century, however, there was a sudden flurry […]
What made a man in the 18th and 19th century? That’s what York Professor Carolyn Podruchny, graduate director of the Department of History, will reveal at her public lecture tomorrow as part of the Canada: Like You’ve Never Heard It Before Speakers’ Series. Podruchny’s talk, “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian […]
Stephen Brooke has recently been informed by the President that he has accepted enthusiastically the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be promoted to the rank of Full Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. His file was replete with many fine assessments of the […]
When York history Professor Thomas Cohen read an online posting about a contest to name the four tunnel-boring machines that would be used to build the York-Spadina subway extension, it was a challenge he could not refuse. The contest, which was sponsored by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), asked Torontonians to come up with quirky […]