Ian Mosby (MA ’06), a York PhD history student, has won the Nicholas C. Mullins Award for his essay, titled “That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968–1980”. “I was surprised and truly honoured….I’m very lucky to have had such a supportive group of friends, supervisors, and […]
Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the appearance of his latest book: Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 364 pp.). The book was published today in the U.S. and will be available in Canada in October. Marc has kindly donated a pre-publication copy to the Department, and I have it displayed on […]
Department of History congratulates Graduate History Programme Director Carolyn Podruchny on the appearance of her latest book. Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, co-edited by Carolyn and Laura Peers (a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford), was published recently by the University of British Columbia Press, 344 pp. Here is a brief description of the […]
One of the PhD students in History, Ian Mosby, has recently won the 2010 Mullins Prize, awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), for his paper, “That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968-1980”. Ian received the award last month at the Society’s annual conference in Tokyo. (A […]
Department of History congratulates Sheri Crawford, a Double Major in History and Political Science, for winning one of the ten prizes in this year’s North American Conference on British Studies’ Canadian Undergraduate Essay Prize in British Studies competition. Her essay was entitled “Debating, Damning and Defending the ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ in the House of Commons” and it was written […]
Department of History congratulates Maynard Maidman and Marcel Martel, who today both donated copies of their recent books to the Department. Please drop by the Chair’s office to take a look. The respective books are: Nuzi Texts and their Uses as Historical Evidence, published recently by Brill and the Society of Biblical Literature. For full details, see https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=061518P&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL and Langue et […]
What few people realize when looking at French and English language rights issues across the country is that the RCMP were instructed to open files on individuals and organizations both for and against bilingualism in the 1960s and 1970s, says York history Professor Marcel Martel, co-author of a new book. “It raises some serious questions,” […]
There are some good news and bad news from the Graduate History Program. The good news on scholarship winners and new students is first. The bad news about the RAship program will follow. Department of History is delighted to announce that this year we have two winners of the Avie Bennett Scholarship in Canadian History, […]
Department of History congratulations Maynard Maidman on the publication of his latest book, /Nuzi Texts and their Uses as Historical Evidence/, published recently by Brill and the Society of Biblical Literature. For full details, see https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=061518P&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL Here is a brief description of the volume: Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age […]
What happens in those places that are apart from the big cities and major hospitals when health care is needed? Who attends a labouring mother involved in a high-risk delivery or a critically ill newborn when a medical evacuation flight is delayed by bad weather or distance? Those questions and more are at the heart […]