Dear members of the Department, It is with great pleasure that I inform you that our colleague Sean Kheraj 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 granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor effective July […]
The Department of History welcomes Alexia Yates, Visiting Professor of Modern French History! Alexia Yates is a historian of economic life, focusing on urban political economy and business history in Europe. As an urban historian, her work on private development in urban environments aims to add to our understanding of the spatiality of human life […]
Dear colleagues in History, It is more than one year since we lost our colleague, Prof. Myra Rutherdale. Since then, PhD student Erin Dolmage and Prof. Carolyn Podruchny have expanded and published a conference paper that Myra had given in Israel before she passed. They have published it in Active History for the anniversary of […]
Dear colleagues, June 30 marked my last day in office, and though I have now passed the GPD torch to Libby Cohen, I’d nonetheless like to thank you (faculty, staff, and students alike) for your support during my three years as grad director. It’s been a pleasure to observe and communicate so many notable achievements […]
Dear colleagues in History, It is a pleasure for me to confirm that Serge Miville has accepted a tenure-track position and research chair in Franco-Ontarian History at Laurentian University. Serge’s doctoral dissertation, supervised by Prof. Marcel Martel, is entitled “Écrire un pays: récits et identités au Canada sous la plume des historiens (1945-1982)”. This work […]
On Friday, April 24, Ronnie Morris, a PhD candidate in History, suffered two major strokes, in his cerebellum and brain stem, as well as a double vertebral artery dissection. Ronnie had actually suffered an initial stroke a week earlier but had not displayed the usual symptoms; he thought he had the flu. After the double […]