The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to announce that two LA&PS Faculty have been selected as York Massey Fellows. We congratulate Professor Emilia Nielsen and Professor Zulfikar Hirji on this opportunity and look forward to seeing what they accomplish! Professor Nielsen’s program of scholarly research and creative activity engages interdisciplinary, arts-based, and research-creation interventions […]
The Global Labour Research Centre, LA&PS-based Organized Research Unit, is entering its third charter period under the direction of Prof. Adrian Smith (currently on sabbatical) and Prof. Carlo Fanelli (Interim Director). The GLRC was launched in 2013 following two decades of research activities pursued through the Centre for Research on Work and Society. In its new […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Juan Carlos Mezo-González. Dr. Juan Carlos Mezo-González is a historian of sexuality and visual culture in the Americas who holds a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. As a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2024-2025), he is currently working […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Mai Ibrahim. Mai Ibrahim holds a PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from North Carolina State University and is a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2025). She will be working with Professor Kelly Bergstrom, an Assistant Professor in […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Kennedy Opande. Opande completed his PhD at the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi in Anthropology. Opande will work with supervisor Denielle Elliott, a Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. Professor Elliott holds a York Research […]
As you may know, Professor Adrian Smith, Director of the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC), will be on sabbatical from July 2024 to June 2025. We are pleased to announce that Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has accepted to take on the role of GLRC's Interim Director. Carlo Fanelli is an […]
LA&PS Professor Jennifer Bonnell was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing from the BC Historical Federation for her book titled Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2023). Stewards of Splendour explores British Columbians’ changing relationships with wild animals and their habitats over more than 250 […]
LA&PS Professor Joann Jasiak was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant, for a project titled: “Inequality measures and econometric modelling.” The goal of the project is to organize an academic conference in Toronto on October 25-27, 2024. This conference will make a unique contribution by showcasing state-of-the-art methodological developments and cover a broad range of inequality […]
Dr. Joshua Fogel was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled “Translation within a world of Chinese characters.” The aim of the project is to examine how people in the early modern and modern eras of East Asian history translated each other's works, and how interpretation (in a non-literary sense) was done. The aim […]
Dr. Koffman was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) for a project titled “Life and Literature of Jews from the Former Soviet Union: Amplifying New Voices in Canada.” The project involves a multi-disciplinary scholarly symposium about the lives and literature of Canadian Jews from the Former Soviet Union; a writers' workshop for Canadian-Ukrainian-Russian-East Slavic Jewish novelists, poets and […]