We are pleased to be able to announce a new publication by David Koffman, which also features a contribution by Kalman Weiser – an edited collection entitled No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging (Toronto, 2021). David S. Koffman (ed.) No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging. Toronto: University […]
Join Us for the 2021 Lecture This year’s Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture will be given by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba. While COVID-19 has generated intense recent interest in the Great Influenza (1918-1920), that event was long referred to as the 20th century’s “forgotten” pandemic. With no “Great Men” to […]
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Co-sponsored by the History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) NetworkFriday, March 5, 2021 | 2:30PM – 4:30PMRegister in advance for the webinar here. For more information, head to the Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series page.
An extended version of CBC’s conversation between Alex Mason and Professor William Wicken, author of “Mi’kmaq Treaties on Trial” and “The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History” can be accessed below.
Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Bonnell, Alan Corbiere and Victoria Freeman for their award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on ‘Indigenous Experience and the Creation of a Settler-Colonial Order within the Black Creek/Humber River Watershed’. Best wishes on this award from all of us.
Dear colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleagues Molly Ladd-Taylor and Bill Wicken have been announced as two of the newly-elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. The citations are below. Many congratulations to Molly and Bill on this recognition of their contributions – it is much deserved. Molly Ladd-Taylor, […]
The History Department is very happy to welcome Dr. Abril Liberatori as the new Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies at York University. She received her PhD in History from York University in 2017. A historian by training, her research focuses on the experiences of Italian Canadians in the post-Second World War period. She […]
The History Department is very happy to welcome William Jenkins, who joins the History Department as an Associate Professor from York’s Geography Department. Willie has already been a member of the Graduate Programme in History and served as its Director. Willie was born in Dublin and in 2001 completed a PhD at the University of […]
The History Department is very happy to welcome new Faculty member Leila Pourtavaf, who joins as an assistant professor in Global Public History. Leila holds a PhD from the Department of History at the University of Toronto and was most recently a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Her […]