<!–Notes ACF –> Dear historians, More good news. Our sessional colleague (and York History PhD ) Joseph Tohill has recently informed me of the publication of an important new volume, Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possiblities of Purchasing Power, co-edited by himself and Louis Hyman (Between the Lines Books/Cornell Univ. Press, 380 pp.). […]
<!–Notes ACF –> The Department of History warmly congratulates our colleague Craig Heron on winning this year’s Lee Lorch Award (formerly the Distinguished Scholar Ward) of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). CAUT presented the award at a banquet in Ottawa on Friday 5 May 2017. At the ceremony Craig then delivered an address […]
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting), On behalf of this year’s Awards Committee, Ben Kelly, Rachel Koopmans and Kalman Weiser, I am delighted to report that the following students have won prizes for the 2016-2017 competition. Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ […]
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting), On behalf of this year’s Awards Committee, Ben Kelly, Rachel Koopmans and Kalman Weiser, I am delighted to report that the following students have won prizes for the 2016-2017 competition. Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST […]
DEPARTMENT AWARDS Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 1000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘The Batoche National Historical Site’ (HIST 1040: The Presence of the Past, Jennifer Bonnell) Desmond Hart Award for the Best Essay in a 2000-level Course Robert Gibbs, ‘Perceptions of the Falklands War’ (HIST 2400: British History from the Tudors to Thatcher, Nick Rogers […]
Michael Primiani is a fourth-year History major and a student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course. This past semester, he worked with Stacy-Allison Cassin, the W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at Scott Library, to research, curate and develop a digital exhibit focusing on three coffeehouses and the role they played in the […]
YFile Article: April 18, 2017 Choi Po King of the Chinese University of Hong Kong will give the inaugural Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies on April 27 at York University. Bernard Luk A beloved teacher and colleague at York, Professor Luk (1946-2016) was an internationally recognized authority on the history of […]
Manprit Gill, a fourth-year History Major and a student in Prof. Jennifer Bonnell’s History 4840: Public History course, has curated a new exhibition at the Archives of Ontario. Titled Echoes from the Past: Remembering the Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre, the exhibit displays selected records from the Frost Centre collection, acquired by the Archives […]
<!–Notes ACF –> Sydney Kanya-Forstner (October 24, 1940 – March 31, 2017) was a much esteemed colleague in the Department of History for no fewer than thirty-four years. Born in Budapest in 1940 and educated in Toronto at Upper Canada College, he gained his Honours B.A. in History at Trinity College, University of Toronto in […]