Professor Desmond Morton (1937-2019)

Published: 5 September 2019

The Department notes with great sadness the passing of Professor Desmond Morton, a colleague, friend, mentor, prominent military and social historian, academic administrator, and inspiration to...

Join us in welcoming Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey to the Department.

Published: 26 September 2019

The Department of History and Classical Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. Dr. Adjetey is a historian of post-Reconstruction United States, specializing in the African...

Prof. Kristy Ironside awarded two major research grants in the summer of 2019

Published: 26 September 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Societé et culture. The grants will help...

Prof. Allan Greer awarded two major book prizes

Published: 5 December 2019

Congratulations to Prof. Allan Greer, who was recently won the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award for an outstanding book in social science history and the Wilson Book Prize for the best exploration...

Retirement of Connie DiGiuseppe, Manager at the administrative centre of History and Classical Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Jewish Studies

Published: 22 January 2020

With the retirement of Connie DiGiuseppe in late 2019 as Area Manager for Student Affairs, the administrative centre of History and Classical Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Jewish Studies...

What does it mean to be Afro-Métis? Prof. Adjetey weighs in on the controversy on poet-laureate George Elliott Clarke

Published: 22 January 2020

In an insightful op-ed for the Star on January 21, 2020, Prof. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey explores how Canadian society still denies indigeneity to Black-Indigenous, or Afro-Métis, persons while...

Prof. Jarrett Rudy (1970-2020)

Published: 5 April 2020

Professor Jarrett Rudy passed away on April 4, 2020, two weeks after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery.

Prof. Adjetey on anti-Black racism in Canada in CBC interview on June 7

Published: 11 June 2020

The violent nature of anti-Black racism in the United States has conveniently served Canadians for a long time to ignore racism in their own country, warns Prof. Adjetey in a CBC interview of June...

Professor Allan Greer awarded 2020 J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada

Published: 15 September 2020

The J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal is awarded every two years for outstanding work in the history of Canada. From the start of his career, Prof. Greer was interested in Canada’s colonial roots and...

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