One of the recent PhD graduates has received a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship. Department of History congratulates Mathieu Lapointe, for his 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. Under Professor Will Straw’s supervision, Dr. Lapointe will be studying Montreal’s “yellow press” […]
You will be interested to read on today’s Y-File an article about Alan Durston’s continuing research on Quechua, one of the indigenous languages of Latin America and still spoken in Peru and elsewhere. The article celebrates Alan’s winning of SSHRC’s Aurora Prize for the outstanding new researcher among all applicants to SSHRC’s Standard Research Grant programme in 2009-10. Again, […]
Although Quechua dates back to the time of the Incas and is spoken by millions in Peru, its success as a written language has been limited. Despite its official language status, it’s considered marginalized and is dogged by stigma and misconceptions. During the first half of the 20th century, however, there was a sudden flurry […]
What made a man in the 18th and 19th century? That’s what York Professor Carolyn Podruchny, graduate director of the Department of History, will reveal at her public lecture tomorrow as part of the Canada: Like You’ve Never Heard It Before Speakers’ Series. Podruchny’s talk, “Tough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian […]
Stephen Brooke 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 […]
When York history Professor Thomas Cohen read an online posting about a contest to name the four tunnel-boring machines that would be used to build the York-Spadina subway extension, it was a challenge he could not refuse. The contest, which was sponsored by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), asked Torontonians to come up with quirky […]
After a two-year hiatus, the highly popular Empire series of interdisciplinary talks returns to York’s Keele campus this Thursday. Empires II is a joint project of the Departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and offers University community members an opportunity to participate in free talks that […]
Professor Bettina Bradbury, member of the Graduate History Program and the Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, has won the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. Some of the excerpts from her letter of nomination are: “We nominate Professor Bradbury because of the extraordinary vision, skill, commitment, and generosity that she has demonstrated in graduate teaching, supervision, […]
York students have a chance this summer to join an archeological dig of an ancient village in Israel’s Negev Desert. Horvat Tsalit flourished during the turbulent years from King Herod to the violent Bar Kochba War (circa 30 BCE to 135 CE). According to ancient historian Flavius Josephus, it provided sanctuary to Judean militias fleeing […]
Department of History congratulates you for the excellent 2nd Annual Undergraduate History conference (“Not What You Thought: Revisiting Old Myths in Historical Thinking”) held yesterday in Founders College. The quality of the 14 papers was very high, the range was marvellous and they stimulated good debate and questions. Your choice of Prof. Tom Cohen to give the keynote […]