HIST - History
Arthur Haberman Award in History and Humanities
This award is made annually to a Founders College student majoring in history and/or humanities who has achieved the highest cumulative grade point average in courses taken in the major department and/or division. No student may receive the award more than once. In order to qualify for this award, students must have attained a minimum […]
Lex MacKenzie Scholarship
Named in honour of Major A.A. MacKenzie, MC, this scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding full-time undergraduate in a Canadian history course, or one considered equivalent by the appropriate Faculty. The scholarship is awarded in alternate years between the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (odd years) and Glendon (even years). The recipient […]
Women's Canadian Historical Society Scholarship
Awarded to the student entering Year 4 of an Honours program in history with the highest overall average. The recipient will have taken or will be taking at least three courses in Canadian history of which two are at the 3000 or 4000 level. The recipient must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. This […]
Willard W. Piepenburg Award OSOTF I
Willard Piepenburg, who taught for 40 years at the University of Toronto and York University, was the first Tudor-Stuart specialist in York s History Department, served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and was the first permanent History graduate program director. This award is given to outstanding undergraduate history majors selected by the […]
The Peter Knights Memorial Prize in U.S. History
This award is named in honour of Professor Peter Knights who taught at York for 24 years and whose specialization was the history of the United States. This award is given annually to the student who has been judged to have written the best essay in a United States history course at the fourth-year level.