Collaborative Cybersecurity Workshop with BCCC and NICT: Bridging Research and Practice

Understanding Cybersecurity Series The Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS) is a comprehensive knowledge mobilization program aimed at addressing the critical issue of cybersecurity resiliency on a broader scale founded by Professor Arash Habibi Lashkari at the School of Information Technology in York. It operates under the premise that tackling cybersecurity challenges effectively requires creating efficient and […]

LA&PS Professors Examine the Issues Experienced by International Students

Professor Tania Das Gupta LA&PS Professor Tania Das Gupta investigates the myriad of challenges experienced by international students, focusing on how the housing crisis especially impacts this population while they also experience blame for it. In an article for CBC and for CBC’s Front Burner, Professor Das Gupta discusses how international students face exploitation and challenges both within the housing and labour markets. Professor Das Gupta mentions how “international […]

Students can explore career paths, meet alum at Connections events

A series designed to bring York University students and alum together for career conversations returns this fall for the sixth consecutive year, with the first event scheduled for Sept. 27. Launched by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies development team, the Connections: Speed Mentoring and Networking series presents five events that put students and alum […]

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 […]

York University Journal Critical Studies on Security receives an Impact Factor

Critical Studies on Security The York University journal, Critical Studies on Security, was added to the Web of Science Index, resulting in its being awarded an Impact Factor.  Critical Studies on Security was founded a decade ago by the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) as the first journal entirely dedicated to the […]

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 […]