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In the news: Kevin Coleman An article on assistant professor Kevin Coleman recently appeared on the UTM news website. Read more about how he came to study Latin American history and to explore the role of photography and the use of photographic archives.

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 … Read More

Dr. Anna Hájková wins dissertation prize Congratulations to University of Toronto PhD graduate Anna Hájková, who has won the Herbert Steiner Prize for her 2013 dissertation Prisoner Society in the Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1945. The Prize, awarded in cooperation by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and the International Conference of Labour and Social History, is … Read More

Professor Nick Terpstra wins book prize! Congratulations to Nicholas Terpstra, Chair of the Department of History, who has won the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian history or Italian-American relations from the American Historical Association for his book Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (Harvard … Read More

In memoriam: Professor Emeritus David Higgs Dear colleagues, I am writing with the very sad news that David Higgs, who taught in the Department of History from 1964 until his retirement in 2004 passed away yesterday in Toronto. David was a much beloved colleague and teacher, with a generous manner and a keen wit.  His … Read More

Graduate student Shane Lynn wins essay prize Graduate student Shane Patrick Lynn has won the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Postgraduate Essay Prize in Irish Studies for his article “Osmond Esmonde’s Dominion Odyssey: Irish Nationalism in the British Empire, 1920-21.” This article is based on his MA 2000 paper, written under the … Read More

History on the Move — quite literally! Dear Colleagues, In the next 24 hours, the University of Toronto will issue a press release announcing construction of a new building on the St. George campus.  The building will be anchored by a museum and will include some research centres and 2 departments.  The History Department is … Read More

Read the full story by Jim Oldfield: Of healing and henbane: what a medieval sedative says about modern medicine Using modern pharmacokinetics to assess drug known as the “Great Rest” U of T News | August 21, 2014  

Three historians were interviewed on CBC Radio’s the Current  on the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. University of Toronto’s Jennifer Jenkins spoke on Germany, Tim Cook, of the Canadian War Museum on Canada, and Thomas Otte, University of East Anglia on Great Britain. Read the … Read More

History professor Lori Loeb spoke to FASHION on the history of soap and how the product became a luxury. “The idea that we should bathe every day, and especially the idea that we should take a shower, is a product of the 1950s and 1960s and the affluence after World War II. Showering is very … Read More