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24Apr2017
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Associate Professor Paul Cohen comments on French elections on CTV

Department of History Associate Professor Paul Cohen appeared on a segment of CTV News to speak with host Scott Laurie about the upcoming federal elections in France. A historian of early modern Franc...

24Apr2017
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Congratulations to Professor Sean Mills and Professor Nicholas Everett!

We are happy to share good news with you about two successful promotions in our Department.  Sean Mills has just been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, and Nicholas Ev...

18Apr2017
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Congratulations to Professor Lisa Mar!

Professor Lisa Mar, the Richard Charles Lee Chair in Chinese Canadian Studies, has been selected as one of 15 prominent Chinese Canadian women from Ontario to be recognized and honoured at Celebration...

18Apr2017
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Congratulations to Professor William Nelson!

Professor William Nelson of the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC has been longlisted for the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. His essay, “Five Ways of Being a P...

10Apr2017
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Congratulations to Professor Sean Mills!

The Department of History is pleased to share the news that Professor Sean Mills has won the 2017 Prix de la présidence de l’Assemblée nationale for his book A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, ...

10Apr2017
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Professor Shafique Virani speaks about fighting Islamophobia with education

Speaking on CBC’s The National, Professor Shafique Virani discusses how we can fight back against Islamophobia through education. ...

06Apr2017
Professor Dan Bender in Culinaria kitchen.

Professor Dan Bender’s Edible Midterm

Professor Daniel Bender of the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies and Director of the Culinaria Research Centre has moved away from a more traditional written essay midterm. Instead, Bender...

06Apr2017
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Professor Nhung Tran's Refugee Story

In a blog post titled "Take a Stand", Professor Nhung Tran discusses the complex realities of the refugee experience, and what it means to build a a welcoming society on the basis of justice.     ...

23Mar2017
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Congratulations to Professors Li Chen and Jeffrey Pilcher!

The Department of History is pleased to share that Professors Li Chen and Jeffrey Pilcher have recently won awards in recognition of their scholarship. Professor Li Chen, the Chair of Historical and C...

17Feb2017
An image of a man in the archives.

Histories in Progress: Writing and Teaching the Past as it Unfolds

Susie Colbourn and Erica Toffoli, PhD candidates in the Department of History, recently wrote a piece for Process: A Blog for American History called "Histories in Progress: Writing and Teaching t...

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