In May 2011, Dept. of History (York University) Professor William Wicken was one of two witnesses for the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples in the case of Harry Daniels v. the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development At trial before the Federal Court of Canada Professor Wicken led part of the historical evidence, which became […]
Dear members of the department, I am sure that you will want to join me in congratulating our colleague and former chair Jonathan Edmondson on the publication of his latest book. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (edited with Christer Bruun, Oxford University Press, 2014). Here’s a brief description of the volume: Epigraphy, or the […]
On Wednesday, November 12th, the Department of History, Graduate History Program and Routledge Press held a book launch to mark the publication of Violence, Memory and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht, edited by Colin McCullough and Nathan Wilson. The event was held in the private dining hall of the Schulich School of Business at York […]
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Dear colleagues, I’m sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague, Josh Fogel. He dropped off four books he’s published over the past year or one-half. Each one takes up a separate tractate of the Babylonian Talmud and addresses its content, page by page, reflecting a style of reading (known as daf yomi) among […]
Congratulations are due to former York postdoctoral fellow, Dr Daniel Rueck, who recently received a tenure-track appointment in Indigenous History at the University of Ottawa. Dr Rueck held a postdoctoral fellowship from the “Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture” at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. During his time at York, Dr […]