For two York professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching. York Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and York Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy will be presented with the […]
Department of History congratulates Michele Johnson most warmly on the publication of “They do as as they please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after Morant Bay, a book she has co-authored with Brian L. Moore, Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgage University. The book (580 pp.) was published by the […]
Department of History congratulates Tom Cohen on the appearance of his English translation/revised edition of Irene Fosi’s Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500 – 1750 (Catholic University of America Press, 2011, xi + 272 pp.). For full details, see http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=fopj. Tom has explained that the book is not a literal translation of the original; […]
The Department of History congratulates SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Dr Stuart Henderson, most warmly on the recent publication of his first book, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (University of Toronto Press, 384 pp.). It was launched in great groovy style at the Gladstone Hotel last night, with several York historians (faculty and graduate […]
President Shoukri has recently sent his letter to our colleague Marlene Shore informing her that he has with pleasure accepted the recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that she be promoted to the rank of Full Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. In his letter President Shoukri comments on her reputation […]
Department of History is delighted to announce that yet another of our doctoral students has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship, which brings our tally to 4 for this year. Dr. Jennifer Ellison won a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University to work on a project entitled “Feminist Activism and the Promise of […]
Department of History is delighted to announce that yet another of our doctoral students has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship, which brings our tally to 4 for this year. Dr. Jennifer Ellison won a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University to work on a project entitled “Feminist Activism and the Promise of Self-Esteem.” […]
Four professors, representing a cross-section of York University graduate programs, were recently honoured for excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to graduate teaching at York. Presenting the awards at the April 7 meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dean Douglas Peers said, “Presenting the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Awards recognizing contributions of our […]
The Department of History (LA&PS) is delighted to welcome Dr Sean Kheraj (Ph.D., York, 2008), currently a limited‐term Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University in Calgary, to a tenure‐stream position in Canadian History at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2011. Dr Kheraj works in the field of environmental history, […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy on this publication of his latest book. Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, a volume of essays edited by Paul in collaboration with Mariana Candido (Princeton U.) and Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), has just appeared in The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, published by Africa World Press […]