Department of History congratulates Dr. Sharon Wall, former doctoral student in the GHP, for her THIRD award for her book The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anti-modernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press). This third award — the English-language book prize of the Canadian History of Education Association — joins the Floyd S. Chalmers Award […]
Historian and York grad Sharon Wall (PhD ’03) has won two awards for her book, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press). In the spring, the book won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2010 Clio Prize for Ontario, and now it has won the Champlain Society’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award […]
Department of History congratulates Jay Young on the engaging interview with Matt Galloway on Metro Morning this morning about your PhD research on the history of Toronto’s subway. You have selected a fascinating topic for your doctoral thesis and you conveyed its importance very impressively. I’m sure the interview will help pique listeners’ interest in […]
Last winter, one of York’s recent PhD graduates, Sharon Wall, published a book entitled The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press) In the spring, it won the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Prize for Western Canadian History, and now the Champlain Society has just awarded it the Floyd S. Chalmers […]
Sheri Crawford, a double major in history and political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is one of 10 undergraduates across Canada to win a coveted student essay prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). Along with the entire Department of History, Patrick Monahan, vice-president academic & provost, […]
York’s history – and York’s historian – are in the running for an award tonight. York University: The Way Must Be Tried, written for York’s 50th anniversary in 2009 by University Historian & Professor Emeritus Michiel Horn, has been nominated in the book category of the 36th annual Heritage Toronto Awards. The category recognizes excellent […]
Ian Mosby (MA ’06), a York PhD history student, has won the Nicholas C. Mullins Award for his essay, titled “That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968–1980”. “I was surprised and truly honoured….I’m very lucky to have had such a supportive group of friends, supervisors, and […]
Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the appearance of his latest book: Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 364 pp.). The book was published today in the U.S. and will be available in Canada in October. Marc has kindly donated a pre-publication copy to the Department, and I have it displayed on […]
Department of History congratulates Graduate History Programme Director Carolyn Podruchny on the appearance of her latest book. Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, co-edited by Carolyn and Laura Peers (a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford), was published recently by the University of British Columbia Press, 344 pp. Here is a brief description of the […]
One of the PhD students in History, Ian Mosby, has recently won the 2010 Mullins Prize, awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), for his paper, “That Won-Ton Soup Headache’: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food, 1968-1980”. Ian received the award last month at the Society’s annual conference in Tokyo. (A […]