This has been a banner year for awards within the Graduate History Program. Two of our incoming PHD students for next September won the highly competitive top scholarships offered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and one of our graduate students has won the top prize offered by the federal government. Madeleine Chartrand (currently completing […]
Department of History congratulates Alan Durston on the excellent news that the President has now accepted the unanimous recommendations of the History Department’s Adjudicating Committee and the Senate Review Committees that he be granted tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2010. This merely confirms what the Department has known for a long term, namely his active service […]
York grad Dean Oliver (MA ‘89, PhD ‘96) has received the Dutch honour of Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The decoration is bestowed by the queen on persons who have rendered outstanding service to society. Oliver is a historian of the Second World War and as director of […]
A recently published youtube video of Tom Cohen can be accessed here
Department of History congratulates the Undergraduate History Students Association for winning two awards at this afternoon’s Annual LA&PS Celebration of Student Leadership and Volunteerism. The UHSA won the “Outstanding Overall Contribution to Student Experience” and the “Alumni Award for Commitment to Student Experience and Engagement (Student Association)”. In addition, the UHSA’s President, Garry Smolyansky, won the “Alumni Award for Commitment to Student […]
Canadians may be familiar with debates over language rights and nationalism, but a new book co-edited by two York history professors, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, looks beyond our borders and back in time for its frame of reference: to Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The historic Czernowitz conference […]
On Saturday, history student Tom Peace will lead a three-hour, four-kilometre walk exploring the natural environment and settlement history along Black Creek as part of the fourth annual Jane’s Walk. “Walking through our community helps us to see what we so often take for granted,” says Peace, who is completing his PhD in history at […]
Geoffrey Reaume and Marc Stein have won Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Awards this year. For both, this is their first teaching award, though not their first nomination. Both are popular teachers covering new ground and challenging old biases – Reaume in disability history and Stein in the history of sexuality. Both have supervised a higher-than-average […]
Jennifer Stephen and Kalman Weiser have been nominated for the 2010 Ian Greene Award for Teaching Excellence, while Shiraz Sheikh has been nominated in the Teaching Assistant category. Students are responsible for making the nominations for this award and the Student Council of LA&PS looks after its adjudication. The winner will be announced at a […]
Department of History congratulates SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Sébastien Rossignol, for publishing Ad libros! Mélanges d’études médiévales offerts à Denise Angers et Joseph-Claude Poulin, co-edited by Sébastien, Jean-François Cottier and Martin Gravel, has just appeared from Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (418 pp.). It contains a very interesting collection of papers on medieval political and cultural history, including one by Sébastien himself […]