Molly Ladd-Taylor, York history professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and co-editor of the anthology Women Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945, discussed the impact of the birth control pill since it came on the market 50 years ago,on CBC Radio’s “Metro Morning” in Toronto May 5. […]
Professor Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. Helm’s novel has attracted media attention through reviews and interviews. Helm’s brother, Richard, interviewed him about the novel May 2 in the Edmonton Journal: It’s a tricky business this, writing about […]
Canadians may be familiar with debates over language rights and nationalism, but a new book co-edited by two York history professors, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, looks beyond our borders and back in time for its frame of reference: to Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The historic Czernowitz conference […]
Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. His is the author of The Projectionist, which was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, and In the Place of Last Things, a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. The Globe & […]
Peter Victor, a professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: “We need a new measure of success,” said Victor, […]
Four years after it was first published, a second edition of the book Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care has just been published, providing a fresh perspective on health, health care and illness. Co-edited by York School of Health Policy & Management Professors Dennis Raphael and Marcia Rioux, along with University of […]
York Professor and Canada Research Chair Bridget Stutchbury is attracting international media attention with her new book, The Bird Detective. ABC News Online, the National Post, the Daily Mail Online and Maclean’s.ca published articles discussing her book on April 13. Reuters wrote: It’s not all love in the avian world, where divorce, child abandonment and […]
Professor Bridget Stutchbury, a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, has studied migratory songbirds like the hooded warbler, purple martin, scarlet tanager and wood thrush. On April 9, the Stratford Beacon-Herald reported on a talk she is scheduled […]
Why do birds divorce? What makes them cheat on their spouses? Why might couples favour one offspring over another? A new book by a York University professor delves into these and other aspects of the secret lives of birds. In The Bird Detective, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social […]
Canadian universities appear to be in a retrospective mood. Several new histories have appeared recently and others are in the works, wrote James Pitsula, history professor at the University of Regina, in a review of York University: The Way Must Be Tried for the Canadian Historical Review’s March edition. Michiel Horn’s York University is the […]