James McCann, professor of history at Boston University, will visit York’s Keele campus March 7 to give the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History. His talk, “Africa’s Malarial Landscapes: History, Complexity and Silver Bullets”, is sponsored by the Department of History in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and starts at 4:30pm in […]
Boyd Cothran, who has recently successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Minnesota and currently has a limited-term appointment at Macalester College, has enthusiastically accepted the Dean’s offer of a full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department, effective July 1, 2012. Boyd Cothran earned his B.A. in History at […]
On behalf of entire History Department, I’d like to congratulate Amanda, Yvgeni and all the other members of the UHSA Executive for the splendid UHSA conference that you organized on Saturday. It was very professionally run. The programme was impressively broad: from the Ancient world to Marie Antoinette to the Armenian genocide to Turkmenistan to […]
Department of History congratulates Graduate Program in History for their wonderful New Frontiers conference this past weekend. With 104 presentations organized into 35 sessions, with presenters from as far away as the UK (University of Aberdeen, Newcastle University), the east coast (St. Mary’s University, Boston College), the U.S south (Florida State University, Tulane, the University […]
President Shoukri has recently informed our colleague Bettina Bradbury that he has with great pleasure accepted the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be promoted to the rank of Full Professorretroactively with effect from July 1, 2011. In his letter President Shoukri comments on her tremendous […]
CTV Clip featuring Sakis Gekas can be found here
Department of History congratulates Dr. Ian Milligan on winning a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Postwar English-Canadian Youth Cultures: A Digital History, 1945-1990” which he will hold at the University of Western Ontario’s History Department under the supervision of Bill Turkel. Dr. Milligan, who was supervised by Craig Heron, defended his doctoral dissertation, “Rebel […]
Adrian Shubert has presented the Department with a copy of his latest book: a textbook, jointly written with Robert Justin Goldstein (Professor emeritus, Oakland University, Michigan and currently research associate at the Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), entitled Twentieth Century Europe, and published recently by […]
For 2,000 years, Chinese women have traditionally modelled themselves on the biographies of 124 women first recorded in 34BC. They include exemplary mothers, chaste, obedient and faithful wives, and eloquent speakers. The original biographies were repeatedly revised over the centuries and historians such as York’s Joan Judge are mining the variations – and a treasure […]
Department of History congratulates Deborah Neill on the appearance of her first book. Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930 has just been published by Stanford University Press (292 pp., 1 map, 9 figs.). Here’s a description of the volume: Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked […]