Department of History

Our colleague Angela Hug has received the Mark Golden Book Award for her book Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (Brill, 2023) from the Classical Association of Canada.

Angela Hug provides an ambitious, wide-ranging, and fascinating exploration of fecunditas, a concept integral to the social existence of Roman women, and, through them, of Roman men. Drawing from an impressive array of literary, inscriptional, and numismatic evidence, Hug elucidates how attending to both biological realities and social interpretations of fertility informs our understanding of […]

Dr Aitana Guia returns to York U as the inaugural MacKenzie-Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History, July 2025

The Department of History is happy to announce that Dr Aitana Guia, presently Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton, will be joining the department as the inaugural MacKenzie-Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History on 1 July 2025.  Dr. Guia is an expert on 20th century Spanish History with extensive experience teaching the Spanish Civil […]

Prof Stephen Brooke Explores 1980s London in New Book

Professor Stephen Brooke presents a significant and revealing new view of London in the 1980s in his book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City. Recently published by Oxford University Press, London, 1984 explores two conflicting cities during a tumultuous time in London. One side established on radical politics while the other side […]

LA&PS Profs publish new book and magazine article about a remarkable piece of maritime history

Professor Boyd Cothran in York University’s Department of History, and Adrian Shubert, Professor Emeritus, recently published a new book, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), detailing the history of the Edwin Fox, a seemingly unremarkable merchant ship vessel […]

New Book by Jennifer Bonnell – Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia

Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia dives into the contentious and often polarizing history of human relationships with wildlife in Canada’s western-most province. Taking as its scope the pre-1770s period of Indigenous land stewardship to the present, the book explores the ways that Indigenous communities, scientists, hunter-conservationists, and naturalists have […]

"Tehrangeles": Sound, Image and Archives November 14, 2023 at 6:00 pm

When and Where Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:00 pm to 8:00 pmWilliam Doo Auditorium (Lower Floor) 45 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S 2H3 Description Join us for a multimedia presentation, panel discussion and double book launch focused on post-revolutionary Iranian popular culture in "Tehrangeles" (Tehran + Los Angeles), home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside of Iran. The […]

History Undergraduate Wins LA&PS Writing Award

Congratulations to Brandon Lamorena, whose essay for Deborah Neill’s HIST 3844, ““A land without people for a people without land”” has been chosen as the third-year winner for the 22-23 LA&PS Writing Prize. Congratulations, as well, to Albert Duan and Guillaume Jean, whose “On the Other Side of War”, done for Jennifer Bonnell’s HIST 4840 […]

2023 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History

Dagomar Degroot, Associate Professor of Environmental History, Department of History, Georgetown University Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023Time: Reception at 3 p.m. | Lecture at 3:30 p.m.Location: Executive Dining Room, Schulich School of Business More information >

Congratulations to our PhD Graduates and all other graduating students!

Pictured from left to right: Professor Margaret Schotte, Angela Zhang, Noa Nahmias, Marlee Couling, Professor Kate McPherson.

Congratulations to Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez on the launch of the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War

Congratulations to Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez on the establishment of the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, featured in The Guardian news article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/virtual-spanish-civil-war-museum-aims-to-cut-through-political-divide