Gill Frank, a York alum who completed an undergraduate thesis with Marc Stein, received a Governor-General’s Award, then earned a PhD in American Civilization at Brown, and now is teaching at Stony Brook while holding an ACLS Fellowship, was in the news yesterday for challenging a Canadian rule that denies voting right to expat Canadians. […]
Bradley Skopyk, who earned his PhD from the Graduate History Program in December 2010, has won the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Outstanding Dissertation Prize for 2012! Dr. Skopyk’s dissertation, “Undercurrents of Conquest: The Shifting Terrain of Indigenous Agriculture in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico,” was supervised by the late Elinor Melville and Richard […]
Six graduate students from York’s Department of History are currently conducting archival research at the Sierra Leone Public Archives in Sierra Leone to help preserve endangered documents and repatriate historical material to the country. Master’s degree candidates Myles Ali, Chantelle Flowers and Shoshawnah Ross Lautenschlager, along with PhD candidates Katrina Keefer, Jeffrey Gunn and Augustin […]
Department of History congratulates Myra Rutherdale on the publication of her latest book. Caregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada, a collection of eleven essays edited by Myra, was published yesterday (April 19) by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Here’s the press’s description of the volume: Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine […]
The History department is delighted to announce that GHP student Alia Paroo has won a tenure-track position in the History Department at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas) in African and Islamic History. Last week, she defended her doctoral dissertation “Aga Khan III and the British Empire: The Ismalis in Tanganyika, 1920-1957,” supervised by Professor […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is delighted to welcome Dr. Boyd Cothran (B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012), currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies at Macalester College, to a tenure‐stream position in United States History at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, […]
Karolyn Smardz Frost will head to Yale University in August as a visiting scholar in Canadian studies for the next academic year. Smardz Frost is the senior research fellow for African Canadian history at York’s Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. She is the author of I’ve Got a […]
Department of History congratulates two of our current MA students who belatedly received SSHRC scholarships for their MAs: Michael Martins, who is working in the area of women in ancient Rome with Jonathan Edmondson, and Garry Smolyansky, who is working on Jewish immigrants to the GTA with Michael Brown. Both Garry and Michael did their […]
On Thursday, March 1, the Faculty of Graduate Studies honoured Professors Joel Katz and Paul Lovejoy for their excellence in graduate teaching and mentoring at York University. The two professors were each presented with a Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award at the the meeting of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council. In introducing the […]
Dr Karolyn Smardz Frost, our part-time colleague in History and research associate at the Harriet Tubman Institute, has been appointed as the Canadian Bicentennial Fellow in Canadian Studies in the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University for the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellowship comes with a courtesy appointment in the History Department […]