Willam Jenkins, professor in the Department of History, has edited a new book exploring the wave of Irish immigration to Canada following the Great Famine. The book, Canada and the Great Irish Famine, highlights the experiences of tens of thousands of resilient Irish refugees who resettled in Canada and their contributions to the country’s development. […]
Jonathan Edmondson, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, was featured in a video on CBC talking about a secret passageway in the Colosseum that recently opened to the public. Edmondson explains that the Commodus Passageway was discovered by archaeologists several years ago and leads into the “imperial box” where the emperor would watch […]
Ten York professors have received $700,000 in funding from the Academy of Korean Studies, an agency of the South Korean Ministry of Education, with eight recipients based in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). The funding will support Korea in the World: Connecting Korea and Korean Diasporic Legacies, a new project which […]
A total of nine researchers at York, including four from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), received over $223,000 in funding through the Black Research Seed Fund. The fund supports Black scholars focusing on Black experiences and on projects that challenge systemic barriers while redefining knowledge creation. The four LA&PS recipients are: […]
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $5,786,741 in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Grants program. The funding supports 34 projects and builds on an additional $1.7M in funding that York researchers recently received through SSHRC Insight Development Grants, supporting scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Half […]
Faculty from across York University have been awarded Partnership Development Grants by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), including three professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). The grants were awarded to existing research partnerships and projects that aim to create impact in both academic and non-academic […]
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $1.7 million in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Development Grants program. The program will provide funding for projects lasting up to two years, supporting a broad range of topics and disciplines as researchers investigate key societal challenges. A number […]
Stephen Brooke, professor and chair of the Department of History, has been awarded the 2025 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for his book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City (Oxford University Press, 2024.) The prize is awarded each year by the Canadian Historical Association to recognize an outstanding scholarly book in a field […]
York University professor David Koffman, from the Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is the co-executive producer of the new podcast Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, alongside Joshua Tapper. Tête-à-tête is a production of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, based at York’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and […]
York History MA student Lex Flavelle joined public history students from across Ontario and Quebec in a panel titled “Becoming a Public Historian: Student Experiences in Canadian Public History Programs” at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). Students commented on their experiences working with community partners as part of their undergraduate, […]