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Three Students in York’s Graduate History Program win SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Graduate History Program at York University has a banner year in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship competition. Three students, Kristine Alexander, Lisa Rumiel, and Guillaume Teasdale, studying in wide-ranging areas, were successful in the competition. Doctoral student Kristine Alexander will be starting a project about kids and the […]

History students organize research conference

“Ethnic Discrimination in Ptolemaic Egypt”, “The German-Jewish Community’s Reaction to the Third Reich”, “Origins and Scope of Fascism in Depression Era Canada” – these sound like the titles of research papers that might be presented by faculty members at an academic conference, but they were papers presented by undergraduate history students at an all-day conference […]

Congratulations to Bernard Luk on his latest book published in Chinese, December 2009

Department of History congratulates Bernard Luk whose latest book has recently appeared. What Price my Soul? Global Capitalism, Education and Spirituality was published (in Chinese) in December 2009 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Chung Chi College Religious Studies series, Pommerenke Christianity and Chinese Culture Series, no. 4. Many congratulations to Bernard. He has […]

Historians TV airs video about York’s History Department

History is not just about dusty old scrolls, manuscripts and  things of the past – it has real relevancy in today’s world. Just watch the video prepared by York’s Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, which aired recently at a conference in the United States. What makes York’s Department of […]

Marc Stein wins Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award

Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the excellent news that he has won a Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. This award is bestowed annually on a member or members of the Faculty of Graduate Studies who have displayed substantial, significant, and sustained excellence, commitment, and enthusiasm to graduate teaching at York. This is a very well deserved award, and we […]

The Avie Bennett Historica Chair soccer conference scores big

All eyes will be on South Africa this June as it hosts the 2010 FIFA World Cup of football, or soccer as it’s known to most North Americans. But last December, those eyes were on a panel of experts at York who kicked off the conference, Global Football: History, Gender, Nation, with a broad look […]

Congratulations to Sébastien Rossignol and Leonid Trofimov on the publication of their books

Department of History congratulates two members of the Department on the publication of recent books. Sébastien Rossignol, one of our SSHRC postdoctoral fellows, has just published a co-edited collection of essays together with Anne Klammt of the University of Göttingen on the subject of Mittelalterliche Eliten und Kulturtransfer östlich der Elbe: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Archäologie und […]

York’s 50th: Conference kicks in with a broad look at soccer

Every four years, the majority of sports fans on the planet work themselves into a frenzy over the World Cup of football, or soccer as it’s known in North America. Fans the world over take part in a celebration that lasts for a month – a true world championship in a sport played by almost […]

Former AVP honoured for international leadership in education

For seven years ending in July, York history Professor Adrian Shubert worked as York International’s first associate vice-president international to make York a leading international institution. That work, along with Shubert’s dedication and passion, will be rewarded at the upcoming 43rd annual Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) conference in Toronto, where Shubert will receive […]