We’re proud of our committed faculty members who are proven leaders at York University and within the community. Engaged in vital, ground-breaking work, they’re earning recognition, including fellowship appointments and teaching awards. These dynamic individuals are significantly enhancing the quality of learning for York students and making positive change on a local and global scale.
Awards
Awards, Fellowships & Recognition
Ivan Vargas (LASO)
Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize – Honorable Mention: Vargas Roncancio, I.D., Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon. The Lawness of Life (Routledge, 2024).
Andrea Kalmin
Recipient, 2025 CEWIL Albert S. Barber Award (Group)
CEWIL. Canada (Co-Operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning)
Aimi Hamraie (HESO)
Canada Research Chair of Technology, Society, and Disability
Emilia Nielsen (HESO)
2024-25, York-Massey Fellow, Visiting Scholar, Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jessica Braimoh (CRIM)
Honorable Mention, LA&PS Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Tenure Stream Category)
Andrea Kalmin
Honourable Mention, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching – Contract Faculty Category. York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, September 2024
Douglas Young (URST)
York University Research Award in acknowledgement of having been awarded (together with Lisa Drummond) an Exceptional Book Prize
Kamala Kempadoo (SPTH)
Fall 2023: Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Brown University, USA.
Amélie Barras (LASO)
CLSA - Article Prize Winner - Honourable Mention: Saaz Taher, Amélie Barras, and Jennifer Selby, Quebecois Laïcité and Its Canadian Multicultural Other in the Debates Surrounding Law 21, (2024) 39(2) CJLS/RCDS 204-224.
Andrea Kalmin
Recipient, 2023 President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards
York University, Contract and Adjunct Faculty Category
Recipient, 2023 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Mohamed Sesay (IDS, CRIM and AFST)
Exceptional Book Prize, York University Research Award
Global Development Studies Book award, International Studies Association, Honorable Mention
Aimi Hamraie (HESO)
Inducted into National Disability Mentoring Coalition’s Disability Mentorship Hall of Fame
Douglas Young (URST)
Co-recipient (with Lisa Drummond) of the International Planning History Society Book Prize for the best anthology or edited work in planning history written in English and published in 2020 or 2021
Carlo Fanelli (WKLS)
Dean Award for Distinction in Research (Honourable Mention)
Mohamed Sesay (IDS, CRIM and AFST)
Lee Ann Fujii Book award, International Studies Association
Aimi Hamraie (HESO)
United States Artists Fellow in Media
Presidential appointee, U.S. Access Board
Megan J. Davies (HESO)
Shadbolt Fellowship
Simon Fraser University
Kamala Kempadoo (SPST)
Cogut Visiting Professorship
Brown University
Emilia Nielsen (HESO)
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, Feminist Folklore Studies, The American Folklore Society, Bloomington, IN, United States of America for Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair. (2019) Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
Annie Bunting (LASO)
Silver Jubilee Award
Women’s Forum Sierra Leone
Caroline Shenaz Hossein (BUSO)
2020 Comparative International Education Society (CIES) – African Diaspora Special Interest Group Emerging Scholar
Linda Peake (URST & DVST)
Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction
Natasha Tusikov (CRIM)
Associate Senior Fellow (Research) Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Andrea Kalmin
Recipient, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching – Teaching Assistant Category. York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, September 2020
Caroline Shenaz Hossein (BUSO)
Suraj Mal and Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize (Inugural) International Association for Feminist Economics
Darryl Reed (BUSO)
Sustainability Leadership Award York University, Office of the President
Miriam Smith (LASO)
LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research (Established Researcher Category) York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Carla Lipsig-Mummé (WKLS)
SSHRC Impact Award (Partnership Category), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Carla Lipsig-Mummé (WKLS)
Sefton-Williams Award for Contributions to Labour Relations University of Toronto’s Woodsworth College and the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
Caroline Shenaz Hossein (BUSO)
Early Researcher Awards (ERA), Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
Kamala Kempadoo (SPST)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Caribbean Studies Association
Caroline Shenaz Hossein (BUSO)
Helen Potter Award Association of Social Economics
Lesley Jacobs (LASO & SLST)
Fellow Royal Society of Canada
Lesley Jacobs (LASO & SLST)
Tier I York Research Chair, York Research Chair in Human Rights and Access to Justice York
Teaching Awards
Dagmar Woronko (HESO) Excellence in Teaching (Contract Faculty Category) York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Darryl Reed (BUSO) Outstanding Contribution to Cooperative Education and Training Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE)
