Department of History congratulates Dr. Bradley Skopyk on winning the 2012 American Society for Environmental Studies Rachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in environmental history. Only three students from outside the U.S. have ever won this prize, and they have all been from York’s Graduate History Program: Matthew Evenden in 2001, Liza Piper in […]
In ancient Athens, Demosthenes was the only politician to draft speeches before delivering them to the public assembly of citizens. Most orators spoke off-the-cuff when addressing this decision-making body in Greece’s most powerful city state – and earliest democracy – and left no record. So Demosthenes’ drafts, originally inked on papyrus, have served as a […]
Department of History congratulates Professor Paul Lovejoy for winning the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. Professor Lovejoy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, has had a long and distinguished career in research, service and teaching. He […]
Department of History congratulates Dr Dan Azoulay, who has been teaching History courses for us for a number of years, on the publication of his latest book, Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 (Univ. of Calgary Press, 300 pp. with 46 b/w photos). This is how the publisher describes the […]
It has been conveyed that the President has accepted the unanimous recommendations of the Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that Marc Stein be promoted to the rank of Full Professor -retroactively effective July 1, 2011. In his letter, the President comments on the originality and importance of Marc’s scholarship, not least in that he is […]
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A York University research team will comb through digitized 19th-century documents to trace the environmental and economic consequences of international commodity trading during the 19th century. Led by Professor Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes and professor of Canadian Studies at Glendon College, the project is expected to cast light on the impacts of […]
I’d like to wish you and your families a very Happy New Year for 2012 and to welcome everyone back to campus for the Winter Term. I hope everyone enjoyed the break, short though it was. In particular, I’d like to welcome a new colleague who will be with us this term: Professor Deepak Kumar, […]
In 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, determined to secure for Spain a more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Not long after Columbus returned, John Cabot, a failed Venetian bridge contractor on the lam from creditors, turned up in Seville, reinvented himself as an explorer and mounted a rival quest for England. […]
In 1945, the British Labour Party won by a landslide and introduced a public health system, public ownership of industry and educational reform. It had been generally assumed that whichever political party won in postwar Britain would do the same thing. Not so, argued York history Professor Stephen Brooke in his 1992 book, Labour’s War: The Labour […]