The Department just today received news that President Shoukri has informed Joan Judge that it is with pleasure that he has 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 Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. Joan’s file was replete with […]
History Department has recently heard that two of the candidates it supported for SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships have won fellowships in this year’s competition. These fellowships are highly competitive and their success is a clear mark of their scholarly promise. It will be stimulating to have them join the community of historians at York for two […]
The History Department extends profoundest thanks to the organizing committee for their splendid work in ensuring that yesterday’s Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture by Dr Christopher Morris was such a success. Our sincerest thanks to Carolyn Podruchny, Colin Coates, Rachel Koopmans and, most of all, Myra Rutherdale for all their work, and to Tom Peace and Jim Clifford for their assistance too. Dr […]
Department of History congratulates the organizers and participants of this year’s Graduate History Conference, New Frontiers. The sessions were exciting, combining interesting papers with lively question-and-answer periods. One of the many highlights of the event was Friday night’s keynote address by Professor Ian McKay of Queen’s University. A leading cultural historian, Professor McKay delivered an intriguing paper that was extremely well […]
Christopher Morris, professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the featured speaker in the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History sponsored by York’s Department of History and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Right: Christopher Morris On Wednesday, March 2, from 4 to 6:30pm, Morris will present a lecture […]
Department of History is glad to notify that Doctoral candidate Tom Peace has won a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! Tom’s postdoctoral project is entitled “Indigenous Education along the St. Lawrence and great Lakes after the Seven Year’s War,” which he will hold at Dartmouth College under the supervision of Colin Calloway. Tom is in the final stages of completing his dissertation, […]
Department of History is delighted to report that we have another winner of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Award in the Graduate History Program: Ian Mosby! Ian will hold his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Catherine Carstairs to work on the project “Engineering Dinner: Postwar Food Technology and the Industrial Transformation of the Canadian Diet.” Ian […]
Further testimony to the excellence of our Graduate Programme in History, coming hard on the heels of the news that another recent graduate Dr Mathieu Lapointe has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship from FQRSC (Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture), which he will hold at McGill University’s Department of Art History for two years.
[American slave girl Cecelia Jane Reynolds’] escape to Canada [in 1846] might have been forgotten by history had it not been for some remarkable letters preserved today, and now the basis of an upcoming book by archaeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost, of York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, wrote the Ottawa Citizen Feb. 16. She is […]
Marcel Martel has recently been informed by the President that he has accepted enthusiastically the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committee that he be promoted to the rank of Full Professor retroactively with effect from July 1, 2010. His file was replete with many fine assessments of the international significance of his highly […]