Top student leaders and volunteers in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been honoured at an awards ceremony co-sponsored by the Centre for Student Success and York Alumni Office. Members of the LA&PS and York community, including LA&PS Dean Martin Singer; Professor Marilyn Lambert-Drache, associate dean, student relations; and Jeff Ball, manager of alumni […]
Two of our former PhDs – Liza Piper (PhD 2005, supervised by Viv Nelles) and Sharon Wall (PhD 2003, supervised by Craig Heron) – won prestigious Clio Prizes this year. These prizes are awarded for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions to regional history. Congratulations to both Liza and Sharon (and to the GPH once […]
Four students from York’s Faculty of Graduate Studies have won Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for research on everything from protecting vulnerable women to finding alternatives to the global takeover of organic agriculture. This is only the second year the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships have been awarded. “We are delighted with the results of the Vanier […]
Historians will be very pleased to learn that four of our graduating History students won prestigious SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarships (Master’s level) to support their M.A. work next year. Heartiest congratulations to Dan Guadagnolo, Riccardo Lo Monaco, Kali Petropoulos and Jackson Tait. Dan and Riccardo also won Ontario Graduate scholarships. This is wonderful news. I hope […]
This has been a banner year for awards within the Graduate History Program. Two of our incoming PHD students for next September won the highly competitive top scholarships offered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and one of our graduate students has won the top prize offered by the federal government. Madeleine Chartrand (currently completing […]
Department of History congratulates Alan Durston on the excellent news that the President has now accepted the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committees that he be granted tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2010. This merely confirms what the Department has known for a long term, namely his active service […]
York grad Dean Oliver (MA ‘89, PhD ‘96) has received the Dutch honour of Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The decoration is bestowed by the queen on persons who have rendered outstanding service to society. Oliver is a historian of the Second World War and as director of […]
A recently published youtube video of Tom Cohen can be accessed here
Department of History congratulates the Undergraduate History Students Association for winning two awards at this afternoon’s Annual LA&PS Celebration of Student Leadership and Volunteerism. The UHSA won the “Outstanding Overall Contribution to Student Experience” and the “Alumni Award for Commitment to Student Experience and Engagement (Student Association)”. In addition, the UHSA’s President, Garry Smolyansky, won the “Alumni Award for Commitment to Student […]
Canadians may be familiar with debates over language rights and nationalism, but a new book co-edited by two York history professors, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, looks beyond our borders and back in time for its frame of reference: to Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The historic Czernowitz conference […]