American Studies Meet-and-Greet reception
September 26, 2017
The American Studies Students’ Society invites all American Studies students to a meet faculty and fellow students for our first annual meet-and-greet.
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SUMMER COURSE GIVES UNDERGRADS A CAREFUL LOOK AT GUN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
June 13, 2017
CSUS Bissell-Heyd Research Fellow Jooyoung Lee (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology) is teaching a summer course for the American Studies program at the Centre for the Study of the United States on gun violence in the U.S. Read the full...
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CSUS Affiliates Tim Sayle & Ron Pruessen teach intensive graduate course at University of Rome
June 9, 2017
Professors Tim Sayle and Ron Pruessen (each affiliated with both the Graham Centre for Contemporary History and the Centre for the Study of the United States) recently taught a two-week intensive graduate course at the University of Rome: History and...
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CSUS Affiliate Prof. Bonnie McElhinny Appointed Principal of New College
June 8, 2017
CSUS Affiliate Prof. Bonnie McElhinny has been appointed Principal of New College, University of Toronto. Professor McElhinny joined the University of Toronto in 1995, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Women and Gender...
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CSUS Director Robert Vipond on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin
May 4, 2017
MAKING A GLOBAL CITY: How one Toronto school embraced diversity in the 1950s
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Prof. Kevin O’Neill appointed Director of Diaspora & Transnational Studies
April 21, 2017
Congratulations to CSUS Affiliated faculty member Prof. Kevin O’Neill (Dept. of Religion), who was recently appointed Director of Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.
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AMERICAN STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP AWARDS
March 22, 2017
I am pleased to announce that the three winners of the 2017 American Studies undergraduate summer internship awards, in the amount of $1,500 each, are: Marisa Balleani: Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Woburn, Massachusetts Samantha Odrawaz-Sekely: Jay’s Treaty and Aboriginal Canadian Student Mobility Kelsey Wiseman: Center...
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Prof. Jordan Bear wins 2016 Historians of British Art book award
March 7, 2017
The Centre for the Study of the U.S. Programming Committee member for Art, Prof. Jordan Bear, has won the prestigious 2016 Historians of British Art book award for a post-1800 subject, for his first book, Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject.
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In Memoriam: F. Ross Johnson – business leader, entrepreneur, U of T graduate (MBA 1956), philanthropist
February 2, 2017
From his modest beginnings in depression-era Winnipeg, F. Ross Johnson rose to become the chief executive of RJR Nabisco,
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The President of the United States – Executive order
January 30, 2017
Dear students, colleagues and friends of the Munk School: The President of the United States has issued an executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries. As Director and Associate Director of the Munk School of Global...
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