Department of History congratulates Marc Stein on the excellent news that he has won a Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. This award is bestowed annually on a member or members of the Faculty of Graduate Studies who have displayed substantial, significant, and sustained excellence, commitment, and enthusiasm to graduate teaching at York. This is a very well deserved award, and we […]
All eyes will be on South Africa this June as it hosts the 2010 FIFA World Cup of football, or soccer as it’s known to most North Americans. But last December, those eyes were on a panel of experts at York who kicked off the conference, Global Football: History, Gender, Nation, with a broad look […]
Department of History congratulates two members of the Department on the publication of recent books. Sébastien Rossignol, one of our SSHRC postdoctoral fellows, has just published a co-edited collection of essays together with Anne Klammt of the University of Göttingen on the subject of Mittelalterliche Eliten und Kulturtransfer östlich der Elbe: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Archäologie und […]
GHP Doctoral Candidate Ian Mosby has been awarded the 2009 Nicholas C. Mullins Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science click here for his article, “That Won-Ton Soup Headache: The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, MSG and the Making of American Food,” published in Social History of Medicine in 2009.
Every four years, the majority of sports fans on the planet work themselves into a frenzy over the World Cup of football, or soccer as it’s known in North America. Fans the world over take part in a celebration that lasts for a month – a true world championship in a sport played by almost […]
For seven years ending in July, York history Professor Adrian Shubert worked as York International’s first associate vice-president international to make York a leading international institution. That work, along with Shubert’s dedication and passion, will be rewarded at the upcoming 43rd annual Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) conference in Toronto, where Shubert will receive […]
Department of History congratulates Adrian Shubert for the marvellous news that he will receive a 2009 Excellence Award from the Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) for his leadership in internationalizing education during his seven-year term as Associate Vice-President International at York. Adrian is one of three winners this year. He will be presented with the award during the CBIE’s […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy for winning one of the two inaugural President’s Research Merit Awards, as announced yesterday and reported in today’s Y-File (http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=13595). Paul’s work as Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples has, in the words of the former Dean of Arts who […]
John Tsotsos, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, has been named the winner of the York University President’s Research Excellence Award. The award, introduced during York’s 50th year, recognizes outstanding research achievement and significant contributions to advance the University’s international reputation for research excellence. Distinguished […]
Department of History congratulates Paul Lovejoy for the appearance of his two most recent books. 1) Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Co-edited with Behnaz A. Mirzai and Ismael Musah Montana. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2009, 318 pp. (This volume forms part of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples Series.) Here’s a brief description: […]