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The Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture, "Carried Away": Forgetting and Remembering the Great Influenza Pandemic in Canada by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba | Friday, March 26, 2021 | 4:00 PM

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 […]

Congratulations to David Koffman - Recipient of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award

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.

Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series - Friday, March 5, 2021

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Co-sponsored by the History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) NetworkFriday, March 5, 2021 | 2:30PM - 4:30PMRegister in advance for the webinar here. For more information, head to the Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series page.

Mi'kmaq fished lobster in the 1700s & lived on the coast in southwest NS, says Professor William Wicken

An extended version of CBC's conversation between Alex Mason and Professor William Wicken, author of "Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial" and "The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History" can be accessed below.

Congratulations to Jennifer Bonnell, Alan Corbiere and Victoria Freeman for their award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Bonnell, Alan Corbiere and Victoria Freeman for their award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on ‘Indigenous Experience and the Creation of a Settler-Colonial Order within the Black Creek/Humber River Watershed’.  Best wishes on this award from all of us.

Recipient of the Leo Gershoy Award in the fields of 17th and 18th-century western European history by the American Historical Association

“Margaret Schotte’s book, Sailing School (John Hopkins, 2019) has been awarded the Leo Gershoy Award in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European history by the American Historical Association. The prize honours “the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European […]

Congratulations to Alan Corbiere, Recipient of the Barbara Godard Prize for Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies

Congratulations to Alan Corbiere, Recipient of the Barbara Godard Prize for Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies

Congratulations to Molly Ladd-Taylor and William Wicken, Newly-elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Dear colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleagues Molly Ladd-Taylor and Bill Wicken have been announced as two of the newly-elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.  The citations are below.  Many congratulations to Molly and Bill on this recognition of their contributions – it is much deserved. Molly Ladd-Taylor, […]

The Department of History Welcomes Abril Liberatori, Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies

The History Department is very happy to welcome Dr. Abril Liberatori as the new Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies at York University. She received her PhD in History from York University in 2017. A historian by training, her research focuses on the experiences of Italian Canadians in the post-Second World War period. She […]