A new volume has been released celebrating the work of Joshua Fogel with Joan Judge as co-editor. In The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Joshua Fogel (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), scholars have contributed essays building on the legacy of Joshua A. Fogel. Fogel is a specialist in cultural and intellectual relations between China and Japan who […]
The Department of History is hosting a public lecture on March 19 with guest speaker Davarian L. Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. Baldwin’s lecture will explore topics from his recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivy Tower: […]
Two self-guided walking tours are now available, highlighting what life was like for Black individuals in the old Town of York (later Toronto) centuries ago. Natasha Henry-Dixon, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, has curated these tours to make the history of Black life in slavery and freedom in this major city more accessible. […]
Congratulations to History MA student Lex Flavelle, whose permanent digital exhibition, Coming Up Aces: Asexual Voices in the Archives, was featured in the Fall 2024 edition of the Archives Association of Ontario’s quarterly periodical, Off the Record. Flavelle developed the digital exhibition, which is hosted by the ArQuives, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives, as part of a 2023 […]
Associate Professor Jennifer Bonnell, from the Department of History, won two awards for her book, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2023). The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) awarded Bonnell with the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. The award, that includes a $2,500 prize, is the […]
In May 2024, History Professor Stephen Brooke published his new book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City which was recently celebrated by The Conversation as one of the top 5 best non-fiction books of 2024 according to their experts. Recommended by Keiran Connell, a senior lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s […]
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Kater, from the Department of History, who has received the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards' Irving Abella Book Award in History for his book, After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany. The book provides a detailed history of culture in West Germany after 1945, looking at everything […]
Department of History Professor Thabit Abdullah is the creator and host of the podcast, Afaq fi Tarikh al-Iraq (Horizons in Iraq’s History). Each episode features an interview with a historian and covers various topics in the history of Iraq from the early medieval pre-Islamic period to the present. The podcast’s primary audience are Iraqis and the […]
David S. Koffman, the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and Associate Professor in the Department of History, co-edited and contributed to a new publication, Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation, which spotlights a conversation between two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of […]
History Department Professor Joshua Fogel was among several LA&PS faculty honoured at the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration. The York University Research Award Celebration honours York’s scholars across all faculties and schools for their remarkable achievements and contributions to creating positive change.. Read the full story