Professor Christina Sharpe named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded its prestigious fellowship to Christina Sharpe, a professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Humanities. The Guggenheim Foundation is a beacon of excellence in supporting scholars, artists, and researchers in their endeavours […]

LA&PS programming excels in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies plays an important role in enhancing the University's reputation among academics and employers, as demonstrated by April’s QS World University Rankings by Subject report. The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS Ranking by Subject evaluates a […]

LA&PS Welcomes New Postdoctoral Fellows

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) welcomes our new cohort of Postdoctoral Fellowships. Each postdoctoral fellow is working with LA&PS Faculty on compelling and engaging research projects. Since its creation in 2020, the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has provided opportunities for promising young scholars as LA&PS recognizes the importance of postdoctoral training […]

LA&PS: A Year in Review

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University is the largest and most diverse Faculty of its kind in Canada with 18,000 students, 90+ undergraduate degree and certificate options, and offers more than 35 graduate degrees in 23 fields of study. Over 600 faculty members bring their diverse experiences across our […]

LA&PS Profs publish new book and magazine article about a remarkable piece of maritime history

Professor Boyd Cothran in York University’s Department of History, and Adrian Shubert, Professor Emeritus, recently published a new book, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), detailing the history of the Edwin Fox, a seemingly unremarkable merchant ship vessel […]

Prof’s new book reveals communicative capacities of textile

Long before the invention of the typewriter or the telephone, and even before humankind had a functioning alphabet, communication was taking place through textile craft. Ganaele Langlois, a professor in York University’s Department of Communication & Media Studies, has published a new book exploring just that – the often-ignored transformative communicative capacities of traditional textiles. How […]

New online CV tool, Discover York Academics, spotlights faculty scholarly work

York University has launched Discover York Academics, a new electronic curriculum vitae (CV) tool designed to showcase the University’s outstanding faculty members. Discover York Academics is a searchable database that enables faculty members to promote and store their research, publications, scholarly and creative works, and related teaching and professional activities in one centralized profile. In the […]

LA&PS profs, alumni help expand UNESCO’s history of Africa

In 1964, the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) began a project aiming to rewrite the history of the entire African continent, from the first appearance of humans through to modern-day Africa and its diasporas. To accomplish that feat, the organization called upon more than 230 leading experts in the field of African […]

Niarchos scholarship brings students from Greece to York U

Students from Greece have an opportunity to study or conduct research at York University through a scholarship funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, a Greek charity that honours the late shipping magnate. In fact, Alexandros Balasis, a PhD student in history at York University, can trace his connection to York back to that scholarship. In 2018, when he […]

LA&PS prof publishes three books in one month

A busy 2023 has led to Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, a professor in York University’s School of Administrative Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), publishing three new books in short succession this past November, covering topics as diverse as systems thinking, supply chain management and sustainable development. The first of the three, Managing Complex […]