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News Category: Awards and Honours

14Sep2018

Sean Mills Named to Royal Society of Canada's College for Emerging Scholars

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...

12Jul2018
Order of Canada medals

Bob Bothwell named to Order of Canada

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...

27Jun2018
University Professor Lynne Viola

Lynne Viola awarded Molson Prize for Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial

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...

05Jun2018
Tamara Walker

Tamara Walker wins Connaught New Researcher Award

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...

22May2018
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Susan Hill awarded the 2018 NAISA Best First Book Award

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...

22May2018

Julie MacArthur awarded the Joel Gregory Prize from the Canadian Association of African Studies

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...

11Aug2017
Dr. Matt Price accepts J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award, 2017.

EDGI Wins Jameson Archival Advocacy Award!

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...

17Jul2017
Photograph of Matt Prace

Dr. Matt Price Wins Teaching Award

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 ...

07Jul2017
Photograph of Professor William Nelson

Professor William Nelson Wins Notting Hill Essay Prize

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...

06Jun2017
Image of Submarine with Duck Hook written on it.

Angela Hou and Alexandra Southgate Win Undergraduate Prizes!

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...

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