The biannual report on news from the Graduate History Program is oulined below. This note reports on the feverish pace of PhD completions, students passing their comprehensive exams in the fall, and recent awards. Since last May we have had twelve students successfully defend their doctoral dissertations. These are: Susanna Miranda, “Not Ashamed or Afraid: […]
For more than a century, English monks bent over manuscripts scratching out by hand thousands of stories about miracles performed posthumously by saints, many in Canterbury cathedral. Often, all it took was a prayer to a saint or a visit to a saint’s tomb for a miracle to take place, and if it was the […]
SSHRC found more money in its budget for this year and is able to grant two students in the Graduate History Program SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships! Congratulations go to Angela Rooke, examining the myriad ways that religion structured the lives of Protestant children in early Canada, and to Andrew Watson, who is tracing the social metabolism of the Muskoka Lakes region, uncovering […]
Department of History congratulates Alan Durston for winning the 2010 Aurora Prize from SSHRC. The Aurora Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding new researcher in all Humanities and Social Science disciplines “who is building a reputation for exciting and original research”, to quote SSHRC’s ipsissima verba. As you know, Alan was granted tenure and promotion last spring and also […]
Marcel Martel and Deb Neill were nominated from our Department for last year’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. It confirms what we all know: namely that we have a number of highly esteemed teachers in the Department. As Jerry Ginsburg says, it is an achievement in and of itself to be nominated for this award and so, the […]
Tom Cohen was named as the inaugural winner of the LA&PS Dean’s Teaching Award for tenured faculty. This is a magnificent achievement, Tom, and confirms what we in the Department already very well know: i.e., that you are a brilliant teacher, who thinks much about pedagogy and engages students at all levels of the curriculum. There will be a formal […]
Department of History congratulates Rachel Koopmans on the publication this week of her first book, Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 328 pp.). Here’s a description of the volume: While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints’ posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and […]
University of Ottawa Professor Constance Backhouse will discuss what is considered Canada’s first prosecution of a woman for sexually assaulting another woman next Tuesday, when she gives the annual Avie Bennett Historica-Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History public lecture. The lecture, “From a Kiss to the Courts: Canada’s First Capital ‘L’ Lesbian Sexual Assault Trial”, […]
York history Professor Marc Stein grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s with a passionate faith in the US Constitution and US Supreme Court as strong protectors of freedom, equality and democracy in the post-war era. That faith was shaken in the 1980s when the Supreme Court justices upheld state sodomy laws, […]
Department of History congratulates Dr Susan Roy, our new SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the History Department, on the publication of her book, These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community, published recently by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 240pp. For further details, see http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2495. Here’s a summary of the volume: Archaeologists studying human remains and burial sites of North America’s […]