Many congratulations to Margaret Schotte, who has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant in this year’s competition for a project entitled ‘Sailing with the French: Labour, Trade, and Mobility in the 18th-century Indian Ocean’. Congratulations again on this award and best wishes with the research, Margaret!
Desmond Hart Memorial Book Prize 1000 Level: Kaylah Christie for FW21 AP/HIST 1040 6.0 Popular Uses of History: An Introduction to Public History (Leila Pourtavaf) Desmond Hart Memorial Book Prize 2000 Level: Jude Kelly for FW21 AP/HIST 2900 6.0 Global Indigenous Histories (Carolyn Podruchny) Desmond Hart Memorial Book Prize 3000 Level: Wilbur Greer for FW21 […]
See direct link to the article here: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/digest-issue/laps-research-digest-june-7-2022/
Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla have just published, in Spain, a book entitled La Guerra Civil Española en 100 Objetos, Imágenes Y Lugares [The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects, Images, and Places]. ABOUT THE BOOK
Rachel Koopmans’ work on stained glass windows in Canterbury Cathedral has resulted in the publication of a fast-selling booklet in the Cathedral: The First Miracle Window: Becket’s Earliest Pilgrims in Canterbury’s Stained Glass, with digital reconstructions and an afterword by Léonie Seliger (Canterbury Cathedral Enterprises, 2022): https://www.cathedral-enterprises.co.uk/Shop/Books/Books-on-Kent-Canterbury-and-the-Cathedral/The-First-Miracle-Window The booklet has also been reviewed: https://www.vidimus.org/issues/issue-139/reviews/the-first-miracle-window-beckets-earliest-pilgrims-in-canterburys-stained-glass/
Congratulations to Rebecca Lazarenko, Elizabeth Best, and Jennifer Bolton, all of whom are PhD students in the Graduate Programme, on receiving awards through the York University Indigenous Research Seed Fund, which supports “emerging and established Indigenous scholars for research that advances excellence in Indigenous knowledge, languages and ways of knowing and being”. Jennifer Bolton’s project […]
ABOUT THE BOOK Congratulations to the Editors: Carl S. Ehrlich, Department of History & Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada Robert A. Kenedy, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada Uzi Rebhun, Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations, Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem […]
ABOUT THE BOOK About the Editors Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Henry B. Lovejoy, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab. Érika Melek Delgado holds a Leverhulme Fellowship […]
Students from Glendon and Keele campuses' public history courses presented the results of their experiential education placement projects at multiple sites and initiatives across Ontario and Nova Scotia. Here are some photographs from the conference.
Congratulations to Sean Kheraj - awarded the best article of the year from the Petroleum History Society for his recent contribution to the Canadian Historical Review: Kheraj, Sean. “A History of Oil Spills on Long-Distance Pipelines in Canada” Canadian Historical Review, 101, no. 2 (June 2020): 161-191. http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/awards.html The article is available to read on open […]