Dear Colleagues: I am very happy to report that our colleagues, Richard Hoffmann and Marcel Martel, have just been elected as Fellows to the Royal Society of Canada. This is such an honour for our department and for our university. On behalf of everyone associated with our department I would like to congratulate Richard and […]
Boyd Cothran, York University professor of American history in the Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (JGAPE). The publication is the premier journal of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and an […]
Dear historians, I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in congratulating all those involved in yesterday evening’s Community Conversation with the Toronto Portuguese community on “The Summer of ’77: How Emanuel Jaques’ Murder Changed Toronto” and, in particular, its main organizer, our former PhD student and now postdoctoral fellow, Gilberto Fernandes. The event took […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Dear members of the History Department, I am delighted to report that the Senate Awards Committee has recommended our Chair, Jonathan Edmondson, for a Distinguished Research Professorship. The Senate Committee notes that the file “contains high praise for the international impact of his prolific, original scholarly research, his contributions to the development […]