The violent nature of anti-Black racism in the United States has conveniently served Canadians for a long time to ignore racism in their own country, warns Prof. Adjetey in a interview of June 7. Even if Black people have been a smaller minority in Canada than in the United States, they do not live in a non-racist society. Because racism in Canada is more subtle, it is easier to overlook its manifestations.
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Published on: 11 Jun 2020
Congratulations to M. Max Hamon! He just received the 2019 Wilson Book Prize for his first book The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the M茅tis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840鈥�1875, published by in early 2020.
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Published on: 1 Jun 2020
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written an op-ed for the on how health systems across the globe need funding and higher levels of preparation to deal with future pandemics.
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Published on: 19 May 2020
Media outlets cite Professor Andrea Tone鈥檚 research on the history and medicinal use of Lysol to dispel US President Trump鈥檚 recent suggestion that injecting or ingesting disinfectants can fight the coronavirus. In response to the president鈥檚 remarks, the manufacturer of Lysol issued a press statement, warning consumers to restrict their use of the popular disinfectant to inanimate and exterior surfaces.
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Published on: 30 Apr 2020
Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2020
Professor and Departmental Chair Jason M. Opal and his father, Prof. Steven M. Opal (Alpert Medical School at Brown) have co-written op-ed for the on how American Presidents have dealt with epidemics or even triggered them in the past. The op-ed locates the current office holder in a larger historical context of leadership in times of crisis.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2020
Congratulations to Professor Elsbeth Heaman and Professor Brian Young (emeritus)! Their books and have just been nominated for the 2020 , along five other books.
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Published on: 31 Mar 2020
Yaroslav Gouzenko has won the Undergraduate Essay Prize of the Canadian Association of Slavists for his paper 鈥淪haimiev and the Tatarstan Model: A Successful Highjack,鈥� which he wrote in Professor Kristy Ironside鈥檚 class on Russia in the 1990s (HIST406). The prize is open to students in all disciplines related to Eastern Europe across Canada.
Congratulations!
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Published on: 12 Feb 2020
In an insightful for the Star on January 21, 2020, Prof. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey explores how Canadian society still denies indigeneity to Black-Indigenous, or Afro-M茅tis, persons while accepting it in the case of Canadians of mixed Indigenous-European ancestry.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2020
With the retirement of Connie DiGiuseppe in late 2019 as Area Manager for Student Affairs, the administrative centre of History and Classical Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Jewish Studies says a farewell to a superb and beloved administrator. In her 31 years at 成人VR视频, Connie DiGiuseppe worked for the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Student Affairs Area, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Anthropology, and eventually for the administrative centre of four departments.
Published on: 22 Jan 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Allan Greer, who was recently won the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award for an outstanding book in social science history and the Wilson Book Prize for the best exploration of Canadian history.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Three finalists for the 2019 Cundill History Prize were announced last night at an event at Massey College, Toronto. The finalists, all female, are UCL Professor of German History, Mary Fulbrook, Harvard Professor and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, and Julia Lovell, Professor of聽Modern China at Birkbeck College at the University of London. These three extraordinary authors approach difficult subjects, opening sometimes uncomfortable conversations around the past to help us better understand their repercussions today.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Griet Vankeerberghen, who is the co-recipient with Raja Sengupta (Department of Geography) of an Insight Development Grant.
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Published on: 30 Sep 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Societ茅 et culture. The grants will help Prof. Ironside to start her new research project International Copyright Law in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
The Department of History and Classical Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. Dr. Adjetey is a historian of post-Reconstruction United States, specializing in the African American experience and in the intersections of Canadian, American and African diasporas. Before arriving at 成人VR视频, he held the W. L. Mackenzie King Fellowship at Harvard University鈥檚 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of History Lectureship. He holds a PhD , MA and M.Phil from Yale and an MA and a BA from the University of Toronto.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
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