The Graduate Program in History at York University is distinguished by a vibrant intellectual climate embracing a wide range of geographical and thematic areas of historical research. Long known for its strength in Canadian History, York also has other areas of research and supervisory depth such as British, European, and American History; Comparative, Global and Transnational History; Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America and the History of the Ancient World. More
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Michael Akladios interview
November 28, 2019PhD student Michael Akladios is interviewed about his research on the emigration of Coptic Egyptians to North America here.
Dissertation award for Kevin Chrisman
October 18, 2019Kevin Chrisman (PhD 2018) has been awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Latin American and Caribbean Studies for 2018/19 from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. His dissertation, supervised by Anne Rubenstein, is ...
Dissertation award for Lydia Wytenbroek
October 18, 2019Lydia Wytenbroek, who received her PhD last year, has been honoured by The American Association for the History of Nursing with its Teresa E. Christy Award for her dissertation, “American Mission Nursing in Iran, 1907-1947: Faith, Gender and Profession ...
Julia Pyryeskina wins Fellowship at McMaster
October 18, 2019Julia Pyryeskina, a student in the MA program, has been awarded a prestigious Corsini Fellowship at McMaster University's Wilson Institute for Canadian History. The award is reported in full here.
Postdoctoral Award for Myles Ali
October 18, 2019PhD student Myles Ali has been awarded the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Prize at University of California, Merced. He will take up the position in January 2020.