Dear colleagues, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague, Sean Kheraj, who received the LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship – Emerging Researcher. Here’s the citation composed by the awards committee: Professor Kheraj has exceptional academic and public reach as an inspiring, innovative and dynamic Canadian environmental historian. […]
Dear members of the department, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague Alexia Yates on the appearance of her new book: Selling Paris. Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-De-Siècle Capital (Harvard, 2015) This is how the press describe the volume (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088214) In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged […]
Dear members of the History Department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Tom Cohen’s latest book: Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe, 1400-1700 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), a collection of essays co-edited by Tom and Lesley Twomey. Here’s a brief description of the volume: Spoken […]
Dear members of the history department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell has won the 2014 Fred Landon Award, which honours the best book in local and regional history, for her book Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley, published by the University of Toronto […]
Dear members of the History Department, It is with great pleasure that I inform you that our colleague Bill Wicken last week received an official letter from President Mamdouh Shoukri confirming the recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective July […]