Congratulations to Margaret Schotte on her SSHRC Insight Grant

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!

Congratulations to Adrian Shubert and Antonio Cazorla on their book, "La Guerra Civil Española en 100 Objetos, Imágenes Y Lugares"

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

Congratulations to Rachel Koopmans on the publication of "The First Miracle Window: Becket’s Earliest Pilgrims in Canterbury’s Stained Glass"

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 on receiving awards through the York University Indigenous Research Seed Fund

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 […]

Congratulations to Sean Kheraj, awarded the best article of the year from the Petroleum History Society

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 […]

Congratulations to Leila Pourtavaf - Awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for her project “Cosmopolitan Harem.”

Congratulations to Margaret Schotte, recipient of the 2020-21 LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research in the Emerging Researcher Category

Congratulations to Jonathan Edmondson on his new book, "Si muero, no me olvides. Miradas sobre la sociedad de Augusta Emerita a través de la epigrafía funeraria"

Jonathan Edmondson has just published Si muero, no me olvides. Miradas sobre la sociedad de Augusta Emerita a través de la epigrafía funeraria, with the Universidad de Alcalá Press. Jonathan co-wrote it during the Covid confinement over Zoom with three Spanish colleagues: Antonio Alvar Ezquerra (Universidad de Alcalá), José Luis Ramírez Sádaba (Emeritus, Universidad de Cantabria) […]

Congratulations to José C. Curto (with the assistance of Maryann Buri) on a new edited collection, "New Perspectives on Angola: From Slaving Colony to Nation State."

The collection features the work of a number of York graduate students (current and former) such as Estevam C. Thompson, Vanessa S. Oliveira, Tracy Lopes, and Maryann Buri as well as faculty and researchers associated with York in various ways, such as John S. Saul, Frank Luce, and Marçal de Menezes Paredes. José C. Curto, […]

Congratulations to Boyd Cothran on his new book, "Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Spaces of Nature"

Many congratulations to Boyd Cothran on a new publication, entitled Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Spaces of Nature, published by the University of Helsinki Press as the inaugural volume in their series AHEAD: Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The book is edited by Boyd and two colleagues at […]