The History Department is very happy to welcome William Jenkins, who joins the History Department as an Associate Professor from York’s Geography Department. Willie has already been a member of the Graduate Programme in History and served as its Director. Willie was born in Dublin and in 2001 completed a PhD at the University of […]
The History Department is very happy to welcome new Faculty member Leila Pourtavaf, who joins as an assistant professor in Global Public History. Leila holds a PhD from the Department of History at the University of Toronto and was most recently a visiting assistant professor at NYU's Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Her […]
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Jonathan Edmondson, Nueva Epigrafía Funeraria de Augusta Emerita (NEFAE): Tituli sepulcrales urbanos (ss. I-VII) y su contexto arqueológico, which translates as New Funerary Epigraphy from Augusta Emerita (NEFAE): Urban Tomb Inscriptions (1st to 7th century CE) and their archaeological context, published by Consorcio de la […]
On behalf of the entire History Department, I would like to congratulate three of our History Department colleagues for winning SSHRC Insight Grants in the 2019-2020 competition: Stephen Brooke, Josh Fogel, and Molly Ladd-Taylor. Although these grants were awarded some time ago, the results have only recently been made public here and so we are now – at last – able to […]
The good news just keeps rolling in! Please join me in congratulating Prof. Alan Corbiere on receiving the 2019 Barbara Godard Prize for the Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies! Named in memory of our late, distinguished colleague, this prize is awarded each year to the doctoral dissertation that "best advances our knowledge of Canada." The committee […]
Dear Colleagues: It is especially joyous for me to inform you of a publication by our most recent colleague, Kendra Boyd. As a postdoctoral associate with the Scarlet and Black Project, Kendra directed the team of graduate researchers and subsequently co-edited the second volume of Scarlet and Black: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers 1865-1945. […]
For at least 15,000 years before the first Europeans arrived in North America, the continent was inhabited by a variety of creative, sophisticated and technologically skilled cultures. Yet, most history courses about North America begin with First Contact, as it is called – a decidedly Eurocentric approach that Carolyn Podruchny, a York University historian, is […]