Insight Out: The Girl Player in Early Theatre by Prof. Deanne Williams

By Anam Raheel LA&PS Professors received more than $2 million in 2020 Insight Grants from SSHRC. Keep reading the #LAPSInsightOut series to learn more about the amazing research happening in our Faculty. Department of English Professor Deanne Williams has been awarded an Insight Grant of $94,276 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). […]

Insight Out: Canadian Mining and Resource Nationalism in Africa by Prof. Richard Saunders

By Anam Raheel LA&PS Professors received more than $2 million in 2020 Insight Grants from SSHRC. Keep reading the #LAPSInsightOut series to learn more about the amazing research happening in our Faculty. After being in Zimbabwe during a major discovery of diamonds, and subsequently investigating the emergence of resource-fueled violence amid the chaotic interventions of […]

SSHRC Insight Grants awarded to fifteen LA&PS researchers

Fifteen professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been successfully awarded more than $2 million in Insight Grant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as part of the 2019-20 SSHRC Insight Grant competition. The Insight Grant program awarded a total of $91 million to more than […]

LA&PS professor leads the way with research on media and creative labour of youth

For the past eight years, Department of Communication Studies associate professor Natalie Coulter has led an assortment of courses at York University, covering themes including advertising, culture, digital media, and youth. However, recent accolades have helped to further her efforts in adding to the wealth of knowledge on these connected subjects beyond the classroom. In […]

Jane Finch partnership addressing historical research relationships with York

The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership (JFCRP) is a group of residents, stakeholders and non-profit organizations within the Jane and Finch area, with partners at York University, that works to address the historical research relationships that have existed and continue to exist between the Black Creek/Jane and Finch community and the University. Through community leadership […]

Transnational Feminist Dialogues website will foster collaboration and innovation

York University’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) is celebrating the launch of the “Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues” project website, which aims to foster critical collaboration and research innovation at the intersections of transnational feminism and memory studies. The new website serves as a virtual hub and communication platform for 24 project researchers […]

LA&PS professor earns York-Massey appointment

York University Professors Carmela Murdocca, Mark Winfield, and Deborah Britzman have earned Massey College appointments for the 2020-21 academic year. Murdocca, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has been offered the position of York-Massey Fellowship; while Britzman, Faculty of Education, and Winfield, Faculty of Environmental Studies, were awarded York-Massey Visiting Scholarships. “We are very […]

York University announces 12 York Research Chair appointments

Eight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals. These YRCs belong to the seventh cohort of researchers to be appointed since the establishment of […]

York scholar receives Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

York University Postdoctoral Fellow Salman Hussain (Anthropology) has been named as one of this year's recipients of the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Banting is valued at $70,000 per year for two years and supports postdoctoral researchers who will positively contribute to the country’s economic, social and research-based growth. The scholarships have allowed researchers to […]

York professor contributes to Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group

On May 30, Bonifacio Eugenio Romero, a 31-year-old migrant worker working near Windsor, Ontario, died of COVID-19. He was one of the youngest in the region to die of COVID-19, and had no pre-existing health conditions. Some have claimed the pandemic to be the “great equalizer;” however, due to the ways in which the labour […]