History / en Ron Levi, Paul Cohen receive Ordre des Palmes académiques from France /celebrates/ron-levi-paul-cohen-receive-ordre-des-palmes-acad-miques-france <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ron Levi, Paul Cohen receive Ordre des Palmes académiques from France</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>perry.king</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-05-01T00:00:00-04:00" title="Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 00:00" class="datetime">Wed, 05/01/2019 - 00:00</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/munk-school-global-affairs-public-policy" hreflang="en">Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/history" hreflang="en">History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Chevalier-1140-x-760.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Professors Ron Levi and Paul Cohen receive France's Ordre des Palmes académiques "> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">From left: Consul General of France Mark Trouyet, Associate Professors Ron Levi and Paul Cohen, and Brigitte Proucelle, cultural, education and sciences adviser at the French Consulate (photo by Dhoui Chang)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Two University of Toronto faculty members have been named <em>Chevalier </em>(knight)<em> dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques</em> – an honour granted to those who have made major contributions to French education and culture.</p> <p><strong>Ron Levi </strong>and <strong>Paul Cohen </strong>received France’s oldest non-military decoration at a ceremony at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy from Marc Trouyet, France’s consul general. The title was created by Napoleon I in 1808, becoming a decoration in 1866 under Napoleon III.</p> <p>“It is indeed a privilege to honour two such distinguished professors for their ability to liaise to and with France, its history and society,” said Trouyet.</p> <p>Levi is an associate professor of global affairs and sociology, the director of global strategy at the Munk School and the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies. Cohen is an associate professor of history who helped to launch the Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World in the Munk School, where he was director until 2017.</p> <h3><a href="/news/france-bestows-ordre-des-palmes-acad-miques-two-u-t-faculty-members">Read the <em>TV News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 01 May 2019 04:00:00 +0000 perry.king 160112 at Historian Lynne Viola awarded Killam Prize for humanities /celebrates/historian-lynne-viola-awarded-killam-prize-humanities <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Historian Lynne Viola awarded Killam Prize for humanities</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-04-25T16:08:05-04:00" title="Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 16:08" class="datetime">Thu, 04/25/2019 - 16:08</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/history" hreflang="en">History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/humanities" hreflang="en">Humanities</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/20180611_LynneViola_8719.jpg" width="680" height="453" alt="Portrait of Lynne Viola"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo by Diana Tyszko)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Historian and <a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor</a> <strong>Lynne Viola </strong>is the recipient of a 2019 Killam Prize – the top annual award of the Canada Council for the Arts.</p> <p>Viola, one of the world’s leading scholars on Stalinist Russia, is receiving the prize for the humanities. Her books, which are rich in detail culled from primary sources such as the KGB archives, seek to create a more nuanced understanding of Soviet history. <em>The Best Sons of the Fatherland</em> (1987) focused on the supporters of Stalin’s regime. <em>Peasant Rebels Under Stalin</em> (1996) looked at state government resisters. <em>The Unknown Gulag</em> (2007) looked at Stalin’s victims and their fates and 2017’s <em>Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial</em> looked at those who implemented Stalin’s Great Terror, from 1936 to 1938.</p> <p><a href="/news/u-t-s-lynne-viola-one-world-s-leading-scholars-soviet-union-wins-prestigious-molson-prize">Viola received the Molson Prize in 2018</a> for her significant contributions to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.</p> <h3><a href="/news/u-t-researchers-awarded-killam-prizes-contributions-humanities-health-sciences">Read the <em>TV News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 20:08:05 +0000 lanthierj 160309 at