After a two-year hiatus, the highly popular Empire series of interdisciplinary talks returns to York’s Keele campus this Thursday. Empires II is a joint project of the Departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and offers University community members an opportunity to participate in free talks that […]
Professor Bettina Bradbury, member of the Graduate History Program and the Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, has won the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. Some of the excerpts from her letter of nomination are: “We nominate Professor Bradbury because of the extraordinary vision, skill, commitment, and generosity that she has demonstrated in graduate teaching, supervision, […]
York students have a chance this summer to join an archeological dig of an ancient village in Israel’s Negev Desert. Horvat Tsalit flourished during the turbulent years from King Herod to the violent Bar Kochba War (circa 30 BCE to 135 CE). According to ancient historian Flavius Josephus, it provided sanctuary to Judean militias fleeing […]
Department of History congratulates you for the excellent 2nd Annual Undergraduate History conference (“Not What You Thought: Revisiting Old Myths in Historical Thinking”) held yesterday in Founders College. The quality of the 14 papers was very high, the range was marvellous and they stimulated good debate and questions. Your choice of Prof. Tom Cohen to give the keynote […]
The biannual report on news from the Graduate History Program is oulined below. This note reports on the feverish pace of PhD completions, students passing their comprehensive exams in the fall, and recent awards. Since last May we have had twelve students successfully defend their doctoral dissertations. These are: Susanna Miranda, “Not Ashamed or Afraid: […]
For more than a century, English monks bent over manuscripts scratching out by hand thousands of stories about miracles performed posthumously by saints, many in Canterbury cathedral. Often, all it took was a prayer to a saint or a visit to a saint’s tomb for a miracle to take place, and if it was the […]
SSHRC found more money in its budget for this year and is able to grant two students in the Graduate History Program SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships! Congratulations go to Angela Rooke, examining the myriad ways that religion structured the lives of Protestant children in early Canada, and to Andrew Watson, who is tracing the social metabolism of the Muskoka Lakes region, uncovering […]
Department of History congratulates Alan Durston for winning the 2010 Aurora Prize from SSHRC. The Aurora Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding new researcher in all Humanities and Social Science disciplines “who is building a reputation for exciting and original research”, to quote SSHRC’s ipsissima verba. As you know, Alan was granted tenure and promotion last spring and also […]
Marcel Martel and Deb Neill were nominated from our Department for last year’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. It confirms what we all know: namely that we have a number of highly esteemed teachers in the Department. As Jerry Ginsburg says, it is an achievement in and of itself to be nominated for this award and so, the […]
Tom Cohen was named as the inaugural winner of the LA&PS Dean’s Teaching Award for tenured faculty. This is a magnificent achievement, Tom, and confirms what we in the Department already very well know: i.e., that you are a brilliant teacher, who thinks much about pedagogy and engages students at all levels of the curriculum. There will be a formal […]