The good news for the Department continues to flow in…. At the Senate meeting President Shoukri announced that our long-standing colleague Nick Rogers will be one of two York faculty members to be honoured with the title of Distinguished Research Professor at the Spring Convocation for the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies on Wednesday 15 June […]
History Major Peter Salerno, currently the President of the Student Council of LAPS (SCOLAPS), was yesterday presented with the Martin Singer Award for Dedication to Student Engagement at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism. Peter has combined excellent work in History (nine straight As in his HIST courses to date) with a real commitment to student […]
Department of History congratulates part-time colleague Karolyn Smardz Frost in winning this year’s Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence (in the Professor category). The Ian Greene award, presented yesterday at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism, is decided upon as a result of nominations from LAPS students. There were 175 professors nominated and History’s Karolyn Smardz Frost […]
Department of History congratulates the Undergraduate History Students Association (UHSA), for winning this year’s Alumni Award for Commitment to Student Experience and Engagement. The UHSA has had another stellar year and the award, presented yesterday at the LAPS Celebration of Student Engagement, Leadership and Volunteerism, is so well deserved. Many congratulations to the UHSA Executive under the leadership of Garry […]
How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces? Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more are at the core of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by York postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]
The news from McMaster has come out in dribs and drabs, but it is worth noting that not only did our PhDs (Dan and Jarett) got both the postdocs offered this year, but also that our current SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Stuart Henderson, has just accepted a two-year CLA at the same centre.
Dr. Jarett Henderson, who defended his doctoral dissertation in the Graduate History Program in September 2010, has won a two-year L. R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University (joining GHP grad Dan Horner, the only other winner of this fellowship this year). Dr. Henderson will use his fellowship to publish his dissertation and work on a new project entitled “Convicts, Colonists, […]
Dr. Dan Horner (York, GHP 2010) has won two postdoctoral fellowships for this year. He is currently enjoying a six-month postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leicester, at their Centre for Urban History. He was also just awarded an L.R. Wilson Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McMaster University, which will begin on July 1 and last for two years. Dan Horner […]
Doug Hay has just informed the department of the recent publication of his detailed edition of the records of the King’s Bench for the county of Staffordshire: Criminal Cases on the Crown Side of King’s Bench: Staffordshire, 1740-1800 (Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 4th ser., vol. 24, Staffordshire Record Society, 2010). It runs to 580 pages, […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy on the news that last night at the opening session of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of African Studies, being held here at York, he was honoured by the Association with a Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award for his distinguished research, teaching and activism on African issues throughout his career. This award was […]