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 […]

Andrew Dawson and graduate student Isabel Krakoff win the inaugural Alexis de Tocqueville Award for the best conference paper on democracy and public opinion

Andrew Dawson, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Glendon Campus of York University, and Isabel Krakoff, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, were announced as the winners during WAPOR’s 75th conference.  The paper “Political Trust and Democracy: The Critical Citizens Thesis Re-Examined” empirically assesses competing perspectives on the relationship between […]

Glendon Research Festival celebrates work of faculty, students

The annual Research Festival at Glendon Campus returns April 4 to 6 to celebrate the research achievements of faculty and students. Hosted by the Research Office at Glendon, the three-day event aims to showcase the research achievements of the community through conferences, book launches, student exhibits, presentations, awards and more. See an outline of events […]

Glendon’s Dr. Angelo Dossou-Yovo is a champion for francophone student entrepreneurs

Written by Kevin Bourne and originally published in Shifter Magazine. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and diverse résumé of international schooling and start-ups, Glendon College professor Dr. Angelo Dossou-Yovo is creating opportunities for business students to thrive at York University. Dr. Angelo Dossou-Yovo has travelled the world in pursuit of higher education. Born in Senegal, he pursued his Master […]

Gertrude Mianda Prize for student essays that challenge race inequity

Two students at York University have earned recognition for essay writing that analyzes and challenges race inequity and are recipients of the Gertrude Mianda Prize for Excellence in Essay Writing. The essay prize is awarded to undergraduate or graduate students at York’s Glendon Campus whose essay is judged by the Glendon Race Equity Caucus (CERREC) […]

How Glendon’s Dr. Rose Ndengue is fighting for an equitable place in society for Black women

Written by Avah Taylor and originally published in Shifter Magazine. Through her courses, Glendon College professor, Dr. Rose Ndengue, is fighting for an equitable place in society for Black women. For Dr. Rose Ndengue, her road to joining the Department of History at York University’s Glendon Campus as an assistant professor in 2021 had its challenges. At just 15 […]

Book offers exploration of sugar, power and politics

Glendon associate professor of history Gillian A. McGillivray delves into Latin America’s past through the lens of sugar. The result is her book Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Gillian McGillivray became fascinated by Latin American culture in high school after reading a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer. After earning […]

Lifetime Achievement Award for Professor Cynthia Zimmerman

The Canadian Association for Theatre Research/Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale (CATR/ACRT) has announced York University Professor Cynthia Zimmerman as the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022. Zimmerman is a professor at Glendon Campus in the English Department. She has devoted her professorial career to scholarship and teaching in the field of Canadian drama, as […]

Glendon Professor Gertrude Mianda publishes book on feminist perspectives in African literature