York bestowed titles of the highest order upon four of its long-serving faculty members at Spring Convocation this year. Historian Nicholas Rogers and mathematician Jianhong Wu were named distinguished research professors for sustained and outstanding scholarly, professional or artistic achievement largely accomplished at York. Political scientist David Dewitt and education scholar Don Dippo were named University […]
A couple of corrections to the biannual report from earlier this week: Our OGS numbers have risen from 21 to 23! Additions are continuing student Maria Wong and incoming MA student Lyla Abells. I also wanted to slightly clarify our PhD defenses. Since our last news letter we have had 4 defenses, but we have actually had 6 this […]
As part of a multi-legged visit to eastern North America, Korea Foundation president Byung-Kook Kim visited York and was thanked for the organization’s support of York’s Korean language studies program. In turn, history Professor Janice Kim travelled to South Korea to visit the foundation’s headquarters in Seoul, where she furthered the discussions started at York. The 20-year-old foundation, which supports […]
The biannual report from the Graduate Program in History can be found here
One of our recent PhD students, Jason Russell, began a tenure-track position at Empire State College – State University of New York – last summer as an Assistant Professor of Labour Studies! Dr. Russell defended his dissertation, “The Union Local in Post-Second World War Canada: A Case Study of of UAW / CAW Local 27 From 1950-1990” in […]
Department of History congratulates Steve Mason, just before he leaves York, on the wonderful news that he has recently been awarded a Alexander von Humboldt Research Award of EUR 60,000 “in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching”. These are very prestigious research awards, made by a major research foundation in Germany each year to 100 renowned academics […]
Holey Moley, it’s finally happening. Friday marked the official launch of the first of four tunnel-boring machines that will dig the route for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. After a 25-year wait, work to build the $2.4 billion subway line connecting York University and York Region with the city of Toronto is now underway. The start of work […]
All historians at York, I’m sure, will want to congratulate Bettina Bradbury on the appearance of her latest book, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. Just published by UBC Press, it studies two generations of women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 to explore the meaning of […]
Dr. Kristine Alexander, who earned her PhD in the Graduate History Program in November 2010, has won the Governor General’s Gold Medal in Graduate Studies at York! Dr. Alexander’s dissertation, entitled “The Girl Guide movement, Imperialism and Internationalism in Interwar England, Canada and India,” was supervised by Professor Bettina Bradbury. Currently holding as SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, […]
Dear colleagues, As you all know, today is officially Jean Levy’s last day as Administrative Assistant of the History Department. I expressed the Department’s deepest and heartfelt thanks to Jean at the splendid dinner in her honour at Le Montmartre last Wednesday, but for those who were not able to be present on that memorable […]