It’s a pleasure to relate news of the short-listing of PhD II student Mary Janigan’s book, “Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark”, for the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. She stands in a field of strong competitors. Many congratulations! Donner Prize Shortlist Announcement – Embargoed
The Department of History is pleased to announce that David Koffman, currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, has enthusiastically accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department, effective July 1, 2013. On gaining tenure and promotion, he […]
It is with great pleasure to relate news of job market successes for three recent PhDs from the Graduate History Program. Jason Ellis has recently been appointed to a tenure-track position in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, beginning in July, while Maurice Demers has also won a tenure-track position at […]
Irving Abella Special to The Globe and Mail In the 1930s, at the beginning of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, an influential Jewish leader wrote that the world was divided into two parts – “those places where Jews could not live, and those they could not enter.” Canada fell into the latter category. To […]
The fourth installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) website. This episode is the second of two that examine the history of the environmental movement in Canada. On this episode, Sean speaks with a group of […]
Dear historians, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our History colleague Carolyn Podruchny’s latest book. Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility and History (xxxi + 482 pp.), a collection of essays co-edited by Carolyn, Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press […]
The third installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s six–part audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) website. This episode is the first of two that will examine the history of the environmental movement in Canada. The environmental movement is one of the […]
The Department of History offers its warmest congratulations to History Professor Paul Lovejoy on the publication of his latest book, a collection of essays on The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Co-edited with Benjamin Bowser, Professor Emeritus at California State University at East Bay, the volume is the product […]
The Department of History congratulates History PhD student Karlee Sapoznik on the pending publication of her book The Letters and Other Writings of Gustavas Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African): Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade. To be published by Markus Wiener in mid–April 2013, the book was launched last week at the Annual conference […]
The Department of History congratulates Professor Nicholas Rogers on the publication of his latest book: Mayhem:Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53, this week. Prof. Jonathan Edmondson, Chair of the History Department, said “many of us have heard parts of this volume as papers at earlier research seminars or conferences, most recently the chapter on […]