Congratulations to Eric Jennings for being appointed Distinguished Professor in the History of France and the Francophonie!

We are very happy to announce that Eric Jennings has just been appointed Distinguished Professor in the History of France and the Francophonie. This is a testament to the impressive quality and international impact of Eric’s award-winning research into the dynamics around France and its colonial empire through the course of the twentieth century and particularly during World War II. The Distinguished Professorship is a great credit to him and a benefit to the entire Department. Eric’s fourth monograph is coming out shortly in English, having already appeared last year in French, and he will be spending the next year in France on a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship working on his next monograph. Please join us in congratulating him very warmly.

Dr. Jared Toney wins dissertation prize

Congratulations to University of Toronto PhD graduate Jared Toney, who has won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for his 2014 thesis, “Locating Diaspora: Afro-Caribbean Migrations and the Transnational Dialectics of Race and Community in North America, 1910-1929.” The selection committee noted that the dissertation, which examines identity formation among Anglophone West Indians in New York, Montreal, and Toronto, “significantly expands scholarly understanding on the importance of diasporic communities” and “demonstrates that a sense of blackness was continually reworked in the early twentieth century and was grounded in more than essential notions of color or background or in a simple encounter with new nation-states.” Dr. Toney, who wrote the dissertation under the supervision of Professor Russell Kazal, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of South Florida.

Congratulations to Charlie Keil for receiving the 2015 Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award!

Link is: http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/2015-outstanding-teaching-award-winners/
Also on the homepage: http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/

Jennifer Jenkins speaks on CBC Ideas about diplomacy, women’s history, and war on the 100th Anniversary of the International Congress of Women at The Hague.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/peace-in-their-time-1.3052046

 

Congratulations to James Retallack who wins two major research awards: A Killam Research Fellowship & J.S. Guggenheim

Links:
http://news.utoronto.ca/german-history-expert-receives-both-killam-and-guggenheim-fellowships

The Killam Fellowship is among the most rare and prestigious awards available to humanities scholars in Canada, giving the recipient two years release from teaching. For more information on Jim’s winning Killam project:
http://killamprogram.canadacouncil.ca/fellowship-winners-2015/james-retallack

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship is among the most prestigious fellowships available to humanities scholars in North America: http://www.gf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nominations-By-Field-with-header-US2015.pdf

Winning one of these awards would be a banner achievement in itself — winning two is almost unheard of. Warm congratulations to Jim for this tribute to a distinguished record of research and publication.

Joseph W. Goering, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Toronto, has received the 2015 Medieval Academy’s CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Link: http://medieval.utoronto.ca/2015/03/congratulations-to-joe-goering-for-the-cara-award-for-excellence-in-teaching/

Lights, Camera, Africa!

Julie MacArthur screens African films in Canada as a way of fostering a conversation about the challenges facing the continent

Alison Smith Promoted to Full Professor

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Smith, who has just been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of History. Prof. Smith joined our Department in 2006, and in the years since then has developed a very impressive record in research, teaching, and service. Please join me in congratulating Prof Smith on this well-deserved promotion.

Emeritus Professor Paul Grendler is the Winner of the 2014 Italian Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei

Congratulations to emeritus Professor Paul Grendler, winner of the 2014 Italian Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei for a distinguished record of scholarship on Italian Renaissance History. Two Galileo prizes are awarded annually in a ceremony at the University of Pisa, one to an Italian working in the natural sciences, and one to a foreigner who has contributed to the study of Italian civilization. Paul Grendler taught at the University of Toronto from 1964-1998, and published several important works on education, humanism, printing, and the inquisition. Previous winners of the prize include U of Toronto historian Stillman Drake, an international expert on Galileo, in 1984.