LA&PS researchers awarded Partnership Grants from SSHRC

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced nearly $10 million in Partnership Grants funding for four York University researchers, who study pressing societal issues from both local and global perspectives.   Among the four Partnership Grants recipients being offered nearly $2.5 million each are two researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The […]

LA&PS researchers receive more than $1 million in funding under SSHRC Insight Grants

Researchers from York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies have received more than $1M in funding to pursue research initiatives under SSHRC Insight Grants. Insight Grants are awarded to emerging and established scholars in the social sciences and humanities to work on research projects of two to five years.  21 York-led projects received a […]

Book examining portrait of Black life longlisted for National Book Award

Christina Sharpe, a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at York University, was recently recognized by the National Book Foundation for her new book, Ordinary Notes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan Publishers, 2023). Longlisted for the National Book Award for non-fiction, Sharpe’s book was named among nine other finalists for the prestigious award, out of 638 […]

Students earn awards for advancing work in Canadian studies

York University’s Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies has announced the winners of two prestigious academic awards recognizing the best graduate dissertation and undergraduate paper in a fourth-year course that advances knowledge of Canada. The Barbara Godard Prize for the Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies recipient is Min Ah (Angie) Park for “Diversity in […]

Liberal Arts & Professional Studies welcomes 34 new faculty members

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) welcomes 34 new faculty members this fall. “I’m thrilled to welcome new faculty members to LA&PS,” says J.J. McMurtry, dean of LA&PS. “These new faculty members bring rich and diverse expertise to the Faculty that will benefit our students and build on our reputation as leaders in […]

Professor publishes book about culture in West Germany

Michael H. Kater, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of history at York University, has published After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany (Yale University Press, 2023), a history of literature, film, music, theatre and the visual arts in West Germany from 1945 to reunification in1990. The book by Kater considers how, after the […]

LA&PS professor wins best paper at international politics conference

During the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles earlier this month, Basileus Zeno, a sessional assistant professor in the Department of Politics in Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), received the Best 2022 APSA Paper award from the association’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Politics Section. Zeno […]

Covid in the House of Old presents “Stories for a Revolution” by Dr. Megan J. Davies

Giving voice to the tales of devastating loss, tragedy, hopes and aspirations, COVID in the House of Old (CIHO), curated by York University professor and historian Megan Davies, will exhibit at four Greater Toronto Area (GTA) locations this fall, starting at York University’s Keele Campus on Thursday, Sept. 14, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., […]

Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series returns

The Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which launches its 2023-24 season on Sept. 19, offers the community an opportunity to meet talented award-winning writers, as well as hear them read and discuss their published work. Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students, but the associated lecture series is free and open […]

LA&PS professor’s book explores ‘datafied’ world

York University Assistant Professor Natasha Tusikov, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has co-written a book about the new “datafied” world, and how control over knowledge has become its own ideology. The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) is a guide to and analysis of today’s […]