Historians, For those who are interested in seeing press photos and reading the press review for this weekend’s conference, “Performing Diaspora 2013: The History of Urban Music in Toronto,” (a Harriet Tubman Institute event co-sponsored by the History department–a full list of our sponsors found below) that featured prominent musicians Maestro Fresh Wes and Michie […]
Dear historians, I’m sure you will all wish to join me in congratulating our colleague in the LA&PS Department of History, SEAN KHERAJ, on the publication of his first book, Inventing Stanley Park (UBC Press, 2013, 304 pp.). Here’s how the press describes the book: “In the early hours of 15 December 2006, a windstorm […]
Above: First Nations farmer ploughing field on Western Canadian Indian reserve, 1920. Source: Library and Archives Canada. The seventh installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the NiCHE website. This episode examines the history of food in Canada. The history of Canadian food and […]
The Undergraduate Awards Committee for 2012-13 is pleased to announce the winners of the following awards: The Desmond Hart Memorial Awards 1000-level – Edwin Archbold: ‘ “I am somebody”: Pepys and his Naval Reforms’ (HIST 1015: Tom Cohen) 2000-level – Shimshon Dukesz: ‘Southern Misconceptions and the Civil War’ (HIST 2600: Marc Egnal; TA: Mark Dorsey) […]
Dear historians, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our History colleagues Stephen Brooke and Bill Wicken have been shortlisted for the two top prizes offered annually by the Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada (CHA/SHC). Stephen Brooke is one of three historians shortlisted for the 2013 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for […]
Dear historians, It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that our colleague in Modern European history Deborah Neill last week received an official letter from President Mamdouh Shoukri confirming his pleasure in accepting the recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be granted tenure and […]
Dear colleagues, I am excited to relay the news that History PhD 5 student Pamela Fuentes won the inaugural Anne Simone Graduate Student Award and received it at LA&PS Faculty Council on 11 April. As many of you know, Anne Simone has worked for years at York at Schulich and for many years has served […]
Dear colleagues, While the Graduate Program in History has had much to cheer about this year with three of its recent PhDs successfully making their way into tenure-track positions, it is nevertheless important to recognize that many of our doctoral students have found their way into great jobs outside of academia, and will continue to […]
On behalf of the entire History Department, I’d like to thank all those who were involved in yesterday’s very successful History Teachers’ Workshop. It was a very enlightening and congenial day, with an excellent mix of faculty members, graduate student TAs, undergraduate students and, of course, our guests – the high-school history teachers. I’d like […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is very pleased to announce that Dr Aitana Guia Conca, currently a sessional lecturer in European Studies at the University of Guelph, has recently accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment in Modern Europe at the rank of Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department, effective for two years commencing […]