On Saturday, history student Tom Peace will lead a three-hour, four-kilometre walk exploring the natural environment and settlement history along Black Creek as part of the fourth annual Jane’s Walk. “Walking through our community helps us to see what we so often take for granted,” says Peace, who is completing his PhD in history at […]
Geoffrey Reaume and Marc Stein have won Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Awards this year. For both, this is their first teaching award, though not their first nomination. Both are popular teachers covering new ground and challenging old biases – Reaume in disability history and Stein in the history of sexuality. Both have supervised a higher-than-average […]
Jennifer Stephen and Kalman Weiser have been nominated for the 2010 Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence, while Shiraz Sheikh has been nominated in the Teaching Assistant category. Students are responsible for making the nominations for this award and the Student Council of LA&PS looks after its adjudication. The winner will be announced at a […]
Department of History congratulates SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Sébastien Rossignol, for publishing Ad libros! Mélanges d’études médiévales offerts à Denise Angers et Joseph-Claude Poulin, co-edited by Sébastien, Jean-François Cottier and Martin Gravel, has just appeared from Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (418 pp.). It contains a very interesting collection of papers on medieval political and cultural history, including one by Sébastien himself […]
Historians will wish to join me in congratulating our colleagues Josh Fogel and Kalman Weiser on the appearance of their edited volume, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, published this week by Rowman & Littlefield. It results from the stimulating conference they organized at York in 2008, to mark the centenary of the Yiddish Language […]
York Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year’s Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the […]
Six Canada Research Chairs at York have had their status renewed by the federal government for a total of $5.7 million in research funding. Professors Caitlin Fisher, David Hood, Joel Katz, Steve Mason, Wendy Taylor and Peer Zumbansen will continue their respective research in digital culture, cell physiology, health psychology, Greco-Roman cultural interaction, experimental particle physics, […]
Department of History congratulate Steve Mason on the renewal of his Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction for a second seven-year term. The news was announced in a York press release posted on the York website late yesterday after the formal announcement was made in Ottawa in late March by Gary Goodyear (Minister of State, Science and Technology) and […]
Canadian universities appear to be in a retrospective mood. Several new histories have appeared recently and others are in the works, wrote James Pitsula, history professor at the University of Regina, in a review of York University: The Way Must Be Tried for the Canadian Historical Review’s March edition. Michiel Horn’s York University is the […]
Long-service faculty members were honoured on March 1 with a special reception in the Marshall A. Cohen Governance Room in the York Research Tower. The event provided an opportunity for the University to celebrate the dedication and contributions made by its 25-year and 40-year long-service faculty members. The reception was hosted by the Office of the President. York Vice-President […]