Ali Asgary, professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, co-wrote an article in The Conversation emphasizing the importance of discussing disasters as a key strategy for improving preparedness and planning. The article explains that the way we think about disasters is shaped by political rhetoric, media and culture. Historically, disasters were once thought to be caused by the […]
Thirteen York University researchers have received infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The money will go to projects across a broad range of subjects and expertise from across the university including the Faculty of Health, Lassonde School of Engineering, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School. Manar Jammal, associate professor in the […]
Jelena Zikic, associate professor in the School of Human Resource Management, has been quoted in an article in HR Reporter about return-to-work policies and how these are affecting employees. In some companies, employees have been ignoring return to work mandates which Zikic says is bad for organizational morale and culture. She says companies should consider […]
Jonathan Edmondson, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, was featured in a video on CBC talking about a secret passageway in the Colosseum that recently opened to the public. Edmondson explains that the Commodus Passageway was discovered by archaeologists several years ago and leads into the “imperial box” where the emperor would watch […]
LA&PS associate professor and AI expert Jennifer Pybus has been quoted in an article for City News about a new artificial intelligence (AI) task force created by the Liberal government. The article features input from academics across the country about the task force’s potential issues. In the article, Pybus says she would have liked to […]
Nadia Hasan, assistant professor at the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies has co-written an article in The Conversation, discussing the recently released Islamophobia Research Hub report, Documenting the “Palestine Exception”: An Overview of Trends in Islamophobia, Anti-Palestinian and Anti-Arab Racism in Canada in the Aftermath of October 7, 2023. In the article the authors discuss […]
Robert Zacharias, associate professor in the Department of English (LA&PS), was recently featured in Anabaptist World, where he discusses the new anthology that he edited, In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism (Canadian Mennonite University Press). The anthology features Mennonite literary criticism that has been written over 150 years, featuring 53 […]
Marcela Porporato, professor in the School of Administrative Studies (SAS), has co-edited a special section on qualitative research in accounting published in the journal Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración (ARLA). The journal is the official publication of the Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA), an international organization that brings together higher education institutions and other organizations […]
Four York University community members were recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their contributions to equity, social justice and Indigenous engagement. One of the honorees was Ana Speranza (BA ‘18, MA ‘21), a social anthropology and law graduate, who received the Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella Prize. This award is presented each year […]
Hazal Halavut is a postdoctoral fellow for the 2025-26 year, working under the supervision of Alison Crosby, professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. Halavut’s work traces the afterlives of colonial violence and genocide across memory, history and culture, attending to how they are held, denied and reimagined within the psychic, political […]