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Congratulations to Rebecca Lazarenko, Elizabeth Best, and Jennifer Bolton on receiving awards through the York University Indigenous Research Seed Fund

Congratulations to Rebecca Lazarenko, Elizabeth Best, and Jennifer Bolton, all of whom are PhD students in the Graduate Programme, on receiving awards through the York University Indigenous Research Seed Fund, which supports “emerging and established Indigenous scholars for research that advances excellence in Indigenous knowledge, languages and ways of knowing and being”. Jennifer Bolton’s project […]

Congratulations to Carl Ehrlich on his new book, a new co-edited collection, "Israel and the Diaspora: Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World"

ABOUT THE BOOK Congratulations to the Editors: Carl S. Ehrlich, Department of History & Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada Robert A. Kenedy, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada Uzi Rebhun, Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations, Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem […]

Congratulations to Paul E. Lovejoy, co-editor of a new book, "Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives"

ABOUT THE BOOK About the Editors Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Henry B. Lovejoy, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab.   Érika Melek Delgado holds a Leverhulme Fellowship […]

Seventh Annual Student Public History Conference Photographs

Students from Glendon and Keele campuses' public history courses presented the results of their experiential education placement projects at multiple sites and initiatives across Ontario and Nova Scotia. Here are some photographs from the conference.

Congratulations to Sean Kheraj, awarded the best article of the year from the Petroleum History Society

Congratulations to Sean Kheraj - awarded the best article of the year from the Petroleum History Society for his recent contribution to the Canadian Historical Review: Kheraj, Sean. “A History of Oil Spills on Long-Distance Pipelines in Canada” Canadian Historical Review, 101, no. 2 (June 2020): 161-191. http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/awards.html The article is available to read on open […]

Congratulations to Natasha Henry on her new appointment

Natasha Henry has formally accepted the offer of the tenure-stream position in African Canadian History beginning on 1 July 2022.  Natasha is presently completing her PhD in History at York under the supervision of Michele Johnson. She is a Vanier Scholar, President of the Ontario Black History Society, and a widely recognized leader in the […]

New volume edited by Michele Johnson and Funké Aladejebi

Congratulations to Michele Johnson and Funké Aladejebi (York PhD), on the publication of their important new collection, "Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History" (University of Toronto Press, 2022) – many congratulations on this from all of us!

The Hellenic Heritage Foundation documents the Greek immigrant experience

Congratulations to Leila Pourtavaf - Awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for her project “Cosmopolitan Harem.”

Congratulations to Margaret Schotte, recipient of the 2020-21 LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research in the Emerging Researcher Category