Congratulations to Alan Corbiere, Appointed Canada Research Chair in Indigenous History of North America

With support from the Government of Canada, two new Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) have been appointed at York University and two existing have been renewed this year. The new CRCs will undertake new research into "re-righting" and "re-writing" the Indigenous history of North America and investigating Black life in Canada. This year’s awards were announced June […]

Read about Carolyn Podruchny’s project "Aandse: Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and the Transformation of University-based Knowledge Creation and Transfer”

Read the YFile Article here.

Jennifer Bonnell's research featured in Globe and Mail article, "Toronto’s natural drainage systems, its ravines, get a makeover"

Read the full article here.

Spotlight on Rachel Koopmans: 'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows

York University Historian Rachel Koopmans and conservator Leonie Seliger are featured in an article by The Art Newspaper about their latest discovery. Read the full article here.

Congratulations to Joan Judge - Recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

Congratulations to Joan Judge - awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project “China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and Common Reading in the Long Republic, 1894-1955”. The Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the most prestigious research awards in scholarship.  For more information, head to their website. Congratulations Joan!

Congratulations to David Koffman on his new book, "No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging"

We are pleased to be able to announce a new publication by David Koffman, which also features a contribution by Kalman Weiser – an edited collection entitled No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging (Toronto, 2021). David S. Koffman (ed.) No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging. Toronto: University […]

The Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture, "Carried Away": Forgetting and Remembering the Great Influenza Pandemic in Canada by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba | Friday, March 26, 2021 | 4:00 PM

Join Us for the 2021 Lecture This year’s Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture will be given by Professor Esyllt Jones from the University of Manitoba. While COVID-19 has generated intense recent interest in the Great Influenza (1918-1920), that event was long referred to as the 20th century’s “forgotten” pandemic. With no “Great Men” to […]

Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series - Friday, March 5, 2021

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Co-sponsored by the History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) NetworkFriday, March 5, 2021 | 2:30PM - 4:30PMRegister in advance for the webinar here. For more information, head to the Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture Series page.

Mi'kmaq fished lobster in the 1700s & lived on the coast in southwest NS, says Professor William Wicken

An extended version of CBC's conversation between Alex Mason and Professor William Wicken, author of "Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial" and "The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History" can be accessed below.

Congratulations to Jennifer Bonnell, Alan Corbiere and Victoria Freeman for their award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Bonnell, Alan Corbiere and Victoria Freeman for their award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on ‘Indigenous Experience and the Creation of a Settler-Colonial Order within the Black Creek/Humber River Watershed’.  Best wishes on this award from all of us.