The Department of History would like to congratulate York History Professor Bettina Bradbury after her book about two generations of widows in 19th century Montreal, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal won the Lionel Groulx-Foundation Yves-Saint Germain prize from the Institute of History of French America. The book follows the lives […]
The second installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s six–part audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the NiCHE website. Each episode in the series examines historical perspectives on a number of different pertinent environmental issues for Canadians, including: Climate Change; Aboriginal Peoples, Health, and Environment; The Canadian Environmental Movement; Fisheries; […]
York Department of History professor Marcel Martel will help launch his new book Speaking Up: A history of language and politics in Canada and Quebec Wednesday December 5, at the Gladstone Hotel. Published by Between the Lines, Speaking Up presents a wide overview of the history of the relationship between language and politics in Canada […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate third-year student Bridget Moir on her receipt of an Honourable Mention in the 2011-2012 LA&PS Student Essay Prize Competition at the 2000-level. Moir was nominated by Prof. William Wicken for her paper “The Fabricated Nationalism of L.M. Montgomery: Historical Reinterpretation vs. Reality in Public Commemoration”, written for […]
The Department of History congratulates History PhD student Mary Janigan on the publication of her book Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation. The book, published by Random House Press was launched to great fanfare at Massey College Nov. 14. Describing the book, Random House says; “The […]
The Department of History has been invited to participate in a fund raising effort by the Student Council of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (SCOLAPS). The organization is hosting its third annual United Way Online Holiday Auction from November 26th to 30th in collaboration with the Centre for Student Success. Any money raised by SCOLAPS […]
The Department of History offers congratulations and thanks to professors Craig Heron and Marcel Martel for the wonderful workshop they organized Nov. 1 on “Public History and the University” and the annual Avie Bennett Historica-Dominion Institute lecture by Prof. Alan Taylor on “Winning the Border:Settling the War of 1812”. Superbly organized, the workshop’s lively discussions […]
On October 19 and 20, York and the Department of History hosted an exciting workshop entitled “Borderlands, Transnationalism, and Migration in North America.” Over two days, twenty-five historians and historical geographers met at Glendon Manor to discuss pre-circulated papers. With the support of a SSHRC Connection Grant, York PhD candidate Ben Bryce, Alexander Freund at the University of Winnipeg, and […]
The Department of History congratulates former doctoral student Dr. Jason Ellis (PhD 2011) for winning the Cathy James Memorial Dissertation Prize for the best thesis in the history of education over the past two years. The award was presented to Jason on Oct. 20 in Vancouver at the Biennial Conference of the Canadian History of […]
The Department of History congratulates Bettina Bradbury for being awarded the Prix Lionel Groulx – Fondation Yves-Saint-Germain prize at the annual conference of L’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique francaise for her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) (http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173224), this past weekend in Sherbrooke. The prize is described as “le […]