Congratulations to first-year PhD student Kevin Chrisman, recipient of an Ontario Trillium Scholarship. Professor William Jenkins (left) Graduate Program Director in History with Kevin Chrisman at the annual Circle of Scholars reception on March 26. Read more
Congratulations to our colleagues, Christopher Armstrong and Viv H. Nelles. Their book Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir is among the finalists for this year’s Canada Prize in the Social Sciences York will be hosting the Awards Ceremony for the Canada Prizes at Glendon College on May 7. Details […]
Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade by Dimitry Anastakis is in this year’s shortlist for the Canada prize in humanities, announced by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. These prizes are awarded to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that received […]
In honour of its 105th anniversary the Greek Community of Toronto announced at its March Independence Day Gala that it would be donating 105 historical documents to the Greek Canadian History Project. Read full article The Greek Canadian Project’s stewards are Dr. Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas, HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, and […]
The Canadian Historical Association 2014 John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history shortlist has been announced and one of our PhD graduates is on the list: Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Todd […]
Toronto 1914 was a project undertaken by the students in Dr. Jessica van Horssen’s History 4570, Canada in War and Peace, 1911-1952 at York University. Historians generally agree that this period was one of transformation in Canadian History, and this assignment was to seek out what the City of Toronto was like before the changes […]
Congratulations to first-year PhD student Kevin Chrisman, recipient of an Ontario Trillium Scholarship. Professor William Jenkins (left) Graduate Program Director in History with Kevin Chrisman at the annual Circle of Scholars reception on March 26. Read more
The Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women will be held in Toronto on May 22 – 25, 2014. Register now! YorkU Faculty and students @ the conference: Faculty Bettina Bradbury, “From Collective Genealogy to the Intersections of Law and Individuals’ Family Histories.” Stephen Brooke, “Feminism, Class and Sexuality in the Work of the […]
Congratulations to the Undergraduate History Students Association and the Classical Studies Students Association for an excellent conference that took place on March 1, 2014 at Vanier College. Twelve papers were presented by History and Classics students, and there was a sizeable audience who eagerly asked questions and discussed the papers. The quality of the papers […]
Dear members of the department, Sean Kheraj is one of the three nominees for the 2014 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History. This prize is awarded for the best scholarly book published on a British Columbia subject by a Canadian author. Inventing […]