Democracy is under threat in many places globally, from the suppression of voting rights and influence of money in political campaigns to the collapse of longstanding democratic institutions.
For Yas...
More than two dozen leading lights associated with the University of Toronto have been recognized by the Order of Canada – one of the country's highest civilian honours.
The long list of luminaries...
University Professor Lynne Viola of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s department of history has been named one of two recipients of the Canada Council for the Arts’ prestigious Thomas Henry Pe...
It was in Seville, Spain, that Tamara Walker experienced a breakthrough while researching the complex relationship between Black slaves and pirates in colonial Latin America.
Working inside the Gene...
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Susan Hill has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Best First Book Award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS...
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Julie MacArthur has been awarded the Joel Gregory Book Prize 2018 from the Canadian Association of African Studies for her book Cartography and...
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has been award the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award given by the Society of American Archivists. This award honors efforts to promote...
We are pleased to share the news that Dr. Matt Price is the inaugural winner of the Kathleen O’Connell Teaching Excellent Award.
The award recognizes the outstanding teaching and contributions of a ...
We are pleased to share the news that Professor William Nelson has been awarded the 2017 Notting Hill Essay Prize, and the accompanying £20,000 prize. Professor Nelson is a historian of ideas, who sp...
Angela Hou and Alexandra Southgate, two undergraduate students in HIS344: Conflict and Co-operation in the International System Since 1945, have each won a U of T Libraries Undergraduate Research Priz...