Kristine Alexander, who defended her PhD in 2010 (supervised by Bettina Bradbury), has been awarded a second postdoctoral fellowship. Kristine’s PhD dissertation was entitled “The Girl Guide Movement, Imperialism and Internationalism in Interwar England, Canada, and India” and was awarded the 2011 Governor General’s Gold Medal. Kristine is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that doctoral student, Douglas Hunter, has won two of the most prestigious awards offered to students by the federal government. The first is the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, awarded to candidates with exceptional academic and leadership skills, and the SSHRC William E. Taylor Fellowship, awarded each year to the most outstanding […]
Shortly before she died on Thursday, Finnish historian and Professor Emerita Varpu Lindström was presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as a tribute for her lifetime of scholarship and her pioneering work documenting the history of Finnish Canadians. She was nominated by York linguistics Professor Sheila Embleton and given the award by […]
Sean Kheraj recently published an article about the recent history of oil pipeline spills in Alberta on ActiveHistory.ca and his own research website: http://www.seankheraj.com/?p=1257 That article got picked up by 660 News Calgary when the Plains Midstream Canada pipeline ruptured and leaked 3,000 barrels of oil into the Red Deer River. Sean was interviewed on June […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate York History PhD Ian Milligan, who graduated in the June 2012 convocation, and Dr Susan Roy, SSHRC postdoctoral fellow for the past two years in the Department of History, for both gaining tenure-track positions in Canadian History at the University of Waterloo. The search committee was so impressed […]
Dr. Jenkins, an associate professor of Geography and a member of the Graduate Program in History since 2008, has been appointed as new Graduate Program Director in History. A graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Toronto, his published work initially focused on social and economic transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century rural Ireland. […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate Dr. Jim Clifford who has won a two-year postdoctoral fellowship on a Digging into Data Project called “Trading Consequences.” The project, a major research collaboration between York University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of St. Andrews, examines the environmental consequences of commodity trading during the […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Valerie Deacon, who defended her PhD dissertation in February 2011, has just won a position at New York University as the Elihu Rose Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in Military History. The position is for one year, and renewable for three years. Dr. Deacon’s dissertation, […]
The Department of History congratulates Bettina Bradbury on being short-listed for the 2012 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for her book: Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press, 2011). The award will be presented by the CHA at its Annual Meeting at the University of […]
The Department of History congratulates Kalman Weiser, Silber Chair in Modern Jewish East European and Holocaust Studies, for winning the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship for his recently published book, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (University of Toronto Press, 2011). The award will be presented […]