David Koffman’s monograph, The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America was the runner-up / honourary mention for the 1892-established, Smithsonian-affiliated American Jewish Historical Society’s 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize. View the full list here. Congratulations from the History Department, David!
York University History Professor Michele Johnson was featured in Share Newspaper regarding her Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award. See pages 7 & 15 for the article.
It is with great joy that I may announce that our very own Cristina Wood has been selection as one of 15 Trudeau Scholar for 2021! This is a tremendous recognition of her bold, innovative, interdisciplinary, and community-focused scholarship and its potential to change the way we look at the world. We are proud and honoured to […]
York University Historian Rachel Koopmans and conservator Leonie Seliger are featured in an article by The Art Newspaper about their latest discovery. Read the full article here.
Congratulations to Joan Judge – awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project “China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and Common Reading in the Long Republic, 1894-1955”. The Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the most prestigious research awards in scholarship. For more information, head to their website. Congratulations Joan!
We are pleased to be able to announce a new publication by David Koffman, which also features a contribution by Kalman Weiser – an edited collection entitled No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging (Toronto, 2021). David S. Koffman (ed.) No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging. Toronto: University […]
Join Us for the 2021 Lecture This year’s Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture will be given by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba. While COVID-19 has generated intense recent interest in the Great Influenza (1918-1920), that event was long referred to as the 20th century’s “forgotten” pandemic. With no “Great Men” to […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate Prof. David Koffman – recipient of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore. He received this prestigious award for his book: “The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America.” Congratulations David! Read more about the book award here.
