We are pleased to announce that Michele Johnson has been elected to as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada! For more information, head to the press release. Our warmest congratulations on this well-deserved honour and recognition, Michele – we are so happy for you and so proud that you are one of us.
Margaret Schotte has been honoured with the 2020-21 Dean’s Award for Distinction in Research under the Emerging Researcher category for her “outstanding achievement in research and scholarly activities." Congratulations Margaret!
Congratulations to Adrian Shubert! The University of Toronto Press has just published the English version of Adrian Shubert’s The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 – further information can be found at: https://utorontopress.com/9781487508609/the-sword-of-luchana/
Many congratulations to our colleagues Alan Durston, Alan Corbiere, Jonathan Edmondson and Carolyn Podruchny for winning SSHRC Insight Grants in the latest competition with the following projects: Alan Durston, Lima's highland associations and state formation in Peru, 1919-1939 Alan Corbiere (with Deborah McGregor and Lisa Myers), Indigenous Climate Change Futures: Envisioning Well-Being with the Earth […]
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Listen to the podcast with David Koffman and Yehuda Kurtzer on Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News.
With support from the Government of Canada, two new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) have been appointed at York University and two existing have been renewed this year. The new CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" the Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada. This year’s awards were announced June […]
York University Historian Rachel Koopmans and conservator Leonie Seliger are featured in an article by The Art Newspaper about their latest discovery. Read the full article here.
