I’m very pleased to announce that Dr Jennifer Bonnell has accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment in Canadian History at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department commencing July 1, 2015. Dr Jennifer Bonnell graduated with her PhD from the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 2010. She […]
Dear colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleague, Richard Hoffmann, is the recipient of the 2014 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for his book An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) Let me share the citation composed by the awards committee of the Canadian Society of Medievalists: The […]
It gives me enormous pleasure to report that our colleague, Bettina Bradbury, has been awarded at the annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) in Ottawa the François-Xavier Garneau Medal for her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) (http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173224). The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded […]
Dear colleagues It gives me enormous pleasure to share this piece of news. The chair of the Senate Committee on Awards, Dr David Leyton-Brown, informed Senate that our colleague Adrian Shubert would be named University Professor. Here’s the citation composed by the Senate Committee on Awards (http://secretariat.info.yorku.ca/files/senate-agenda-20150528.pdf) Professor Adrian Shubert has a stellar reputation as […]
It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Craig Heron’s latest book: Lunch-Bucket Lives. Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines, 2015) Here’s a brief description of the volume: The book examines a half-century of profound change in the daily lives of working people in what is perhaps […]
Environmental activism has a long history in Canada. Like others around the world, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadians became involved in a number of environmental non-governmental organizations. Picking up on a prevailing spirit of protest during the era, several environmental problems surfaced as popular political issues: air pollution, water pollution, solid waste […]