Meet Sonya Morson, Glendon Academic Excellence Scholarship recipient

Sonya is a fourth-year student in the Honours Trilingual iBSc in Biology at Glendon, but also a disabled and mature student. She is a second-generation Italian-Canadian, a musician, an athlete, a hopeful activist, and an incredibly curious individual, who keeps herself occupied with a wide variety of interests. After graduating from her specialist arts high […]

Student Wins $700 Prize for Outstanding Academic Essay

This $700 Michael Drache 'Big History, Big Ideas' Prize recognises a student with an outstanding, investigative academic essay or digital project which focuses on the theme(s) of inequality, racism, social activism, LGBTQ activism, climate crisis, indigeneity, or global capitalism. Professor Dr. Jack Cécillon nominated Zipporah Davis paper “The Nk’Mip Winery: From Victims of Colonization to […]

York leads research initiative to explore populism in Canada

By Ashley Goodfellow Craig, editor, YFile York University will lead a new initiative that aims to increase understanding of the impacts of populism on Canadian politics. Launched Sept. 27 at York’s Glendon Campus, the Observatory of Populism in Canada is a first-of-its-kind research endeavour that will work to generate, support and highlight empirical and theoretical research on populism’s […]

Engaging Critically with the Intersection of Blackness, Womanhood and Islam in Canadian and Nordic Society: An Interview with Professor Jan Mendes  

Interview by Xaneva Elorriaga George Jan Mendes is an Assistant Professor of gender and sexuality studies with the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Mendes holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, Canada (2019). From 2019 - 2022 Mendes was a postdoctoral fellow in studies of gender and race with […]

The Planetary Health Advocacy Framework and the Importance of Dialogue

Written by Liliana Antonshyn and Alyssa Ramos, Research Apprenticeship Programme students at Glendon College, York University On March 29th, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research held a collective discussion, led by Carol Devine and Yasmin Al-Sahili. Devine is a Community Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute working on a framework for Planetary Health Advocacy. Al-Sahili worked on the […]

Scholarship and Allyship Through Film: An Interview with Celia Haig-Brown

Celia Haig-Brown is a Euro-Canadian ethnographer committed to respectful and reciprocal research and practice. Her first book (1988), a retrospective ethnography of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, was based on interviews with former students. A new and updated edition, Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School, Resistance and a Reckoning, with Indigenous collaborators, was launched on September 30, 2022 […]

Congress 2023- Reckonings & Re-imaginings

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is Canada’s largest gathering of academics, and one of the largest in the world. It’s a place to hold critical conversations of our time, hear from a diverse set of voices, share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships to help shape the Canada of tomorrow. Congress 2023 will […]

Racial Injustice and the Limits of Reparative Policies: A Conversation with Carmela Murdocca -Interview by Serena Aprile 

Carmela Murdocca is the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice and Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is appointed to graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies, and Social and Political Thought. Her research examines the intersections of racialization, criminalization and the social and legal politics of repair, redress and reparations. […]

Sculpting Political Outrage: An Interview with Artist Donna Bliss - Interview by Liliana Antonyshyn

Donna Bliss was born near Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an honourable mention in the Senior Fellowship Project Since graduating from SAIC, her life has been evenly split between building a career as an event planner and continuing to create art. As part of the Zhou B team […]

Bees, Beewashing and Climate Change: An Interview with Sheila Colla - Interview by Alyssa Ramos

This interview was conducted by Research Apprenticeship Programme (RAP) student Alyssa Ramos, Glendon Campus, with Professor Sheila Colla, Faculty of the Environment and Urban Change (https://www.savethebumblebees.ca).  How did you end up in this field, studying bees and their relationship to the environment and climate change?   During my undergraduate degree, the University of Toronto had the […]