The Department of History offers warmest congratulations to all the York PhD History students involved in COLPAH for organizing a very successful 1st COLPAH Graduate Conference in Ancient History held Friday and Saturday (April 27-28, 2012) in Toronto. “From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History” was the theme, and […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Jaclyn Neel, who has recently completed her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Toronto, has accepted York’s offer of a one-year CLA appointment in Ancient History and Classics in the Departments of History and Humanities. Her doctoral dissertation was on “Creative history, political reality: […]
A new, substantially revised 3rd edition of Craig Heron’s well received book, The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History, has just appeared from Lorimer Publishing (256 pp.). It includes a completely new chapter, covering the period from 1995 to 2011, and several other updates throughout the text. For full details, please follow the link below: http://www.lorimer.ca/adults/Book/2358/The-Canadian-Labour-Movement.html
The Department of History congratulates Graduate History Program doctoral candidate Karlee Sapoznik, who was awarded the newly created Provost Dissertation Scholarship. This award allows students going into their fifth year of their PhD to concentrate exclusive on writing and competing their dissertations. Only ten were awarded across the university. Karlee has a long string of […]
The History Department is very pleased to announce that Jessica van Horssen, who will take up her 2-year CLA position in Canadian history on July 1, won this year’s Eugene Forsey Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. This prize is awarded for the best doctoral dissertation in labour history defended in […]
The Department of History congratulates Bettina Bradbury for winning the Clio Quebec book award for the best book published on Quebec history in 2011 for her book Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press, 2011)
Carolyn Podruchny receives 2012 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant The Department of History congratulates Carolyn Podruchny, Director of the Graduate Programme in History, for receiving a 2012 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. She has won three years of funding for a project, “Mapping the contours of identity in the Trottier Brigade: Métis mentalities and materialities in northwestern […]
The Department of History congratulates Bill Wicken’s on the publication of his latest book:, The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy, University of Toronto Press (328 pp.). Here’s a brief description of the volume: In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged […]
The Department of History is delighted to announce that Dr. Jessica van Horssen, currently a postdoctoral fellow in Quebec Environmental History at McGill University and the Université de Québec à Trois Rivières and visiting fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, has accepted York’s offer of […]
The Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the publication of his latest book: Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (240 pp.) has just been published by Routledge. For further details, see http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415874106/. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in […]