Dear members of the undergraduate and graduate programs, It gives us enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Kate McPherson has won the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Faculty Teaching Award. Congratulations Kate for receiving this prestigious award. The award will be presented to our colleague either in March or April meetings of the Council of […]
Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to report the latest assortment of news from the Graduate History Program. PhD and Comprehensive Exam Defenses • The following students have successfully defended their PhD dissertations since March 2014: Mark Abraham, “”You Are Your Own Alternative”: Performance, Pleasure, and the American Counterculture, 1965-1975,” supervised by Marc Stein. David […]
Former Standing Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ROK, Kim Dong-Choon and Professor Janice C.H. Kim, Dept. of History, York University – Oct. 22, 2014 In July 2014, Professor Janice C.H. Kim, along with the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), received a grant from the Korea Foundation to support the Heterogeneity and Korean […]
Dear members of the department, I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in congratulating our colleague Josh Fogel for his book: Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E. Relic, Text, Object, Fake. Here’s a brief description of the volume: This new book is a carefully researched and wonderfully thoughtful exploration of the […]
Dear members of the department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Paul Lovejoy’s latest book: Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonisation in Sierra Leone, a collection of essays co-edited by Paul E. Lovejoy and Suzanne Schwarz. Here’s a brief description of the volume: This volume […]