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Congratulations to Josh Fogel and Kalman Weiser on the appearance of their edited volume, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

Historians will wish to join me in congratulating our colleagues Josh Fogel and Kalman Weiser on the appearance of their edited volume, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, published this week by Rowman & Littlefield. It results from the stimulating conference they organized at York in 2008, to mark the centenary of the Yiddish Language […]

York Prof. Paul Lovejoy receives Distinguished Africanist Award

York Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year’s Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the […]

Six Canada Research Chairs renewed at York for $5.7 million

Six Canada Research Chairs at York have had their status renewed by the federal government for a total of $5.7 million in research funding. Professors Caitlin Fisher, David Hood, Joel Katz, Steve Mason, Wendy Taylor and Peer Zumbansen will continue their respective research in digital culture, cell physiology, health psychology, Greco-Roman cultural interaction, experimental particle physics, […]

Congratulations to Steve Mason on the renewal of his Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction for a second seven-year term

Department of History congratulate Steve Mason on the renewal of his Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction for a second seven-year term. The news was announced in a York press release posted on the York website late yesterday after the formal announcement was made in Ottawa in late March by Gary Goodyear (Minister of State, Science and Technology) and […]

Reviewer calls Horn’s history of York a ‘masterwork of the genre’

Canadian universities appear to be in a retrospective mood. Several new histories have appeared recently and others are in the works, wrote James Pitsula, history professor at the University of Regina, in a review of York University: The Way Must Be Tried for the Canadian Historical Review’s March edition. Michiel Horn’s York University is the […]

The University honours its long-serving faculty

Long-service faculty members were honoured on March 1 with a special reception in the Marshall A. Cohen Governance Room in the York Research Tower. The event provided an opportunity for the University to celebrate the dedication and contributions made by its 25-year and 40-year long-service faculty members. The reception was hosted by the Office of the President. York Vice-President […]

Three Students in York’s Graduate History Program win SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Graduate History Program at York University has a banner year in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship competition. Three students, Kristine Alexander, Lisa Rumiel, and Guillaume Teasdale, studying in wide-ranging areas, were successful in the competition. Doctoral student Kristine Alexander will be starting a project about kids and the […]

History students organize research conference

“Ethnic Discrimination in Ptolemaic Egypt”, “The German-Jewish Community’s Reaction to the Third Reich”, “Origins and Scope of Fascism in Depression Era Canada” – these sound like the titles of research papers that might be presented by faculty members at an academic conference, but they were papers presented by undergraduate history students at an all-day conference […]

Congratulations to Bernard Luk on his latest book published in Chinese, December 2009

Department of History congratulates Bernard Luk whose latest book has recently appeared. What Price my Soul? Global Capitalism, Education and Spirituality was published (in Chinese) in December 2009 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Chung Chi College Religious Studies series, Pommerenke Christianity and Chinese Culture Series, no. 4. Many congratulations to Bernard. He has […]

Historians TV airs video about York’s History Department

History is not just about dusty old scrolls, manuscripts and  things of the past – it has real relevancy in today’s world. Just watch the video prepared by York’s Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, which aired recently at a conference in the United States. What makes York’s Department of […]