York prof featured in COU's new Research Matters campaign

Through a new province-wide campaign, Ontario university researchers are reaching out to explain the value and benefits of university research. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) launched Research Matters to showcase new stories and ideas emerging from the research underway at Ontario's universities. The campaign, which features a website and blog, speaks to daily issues and reflects the […]

Professor Zulfikar Hirji publishes book exploring Muslim diversity

For more than 1,400 years, Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Yet especially since Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims are commonly portrayed as homogeneous and dogmatic. In his new book, Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims, York anthropologist Zulfikar Hirji challenges that view. The 253-page volume […]

Professor's new book re-examines the forces at play in interpreting photographs

A picture may tell a thousand words, but what if the image is distorted or the meaning misconstrued? The newly published Photographs, Histories, and Meanings, co-edited by York Professor Marlene Kadar, re-examines photographs and their social history, exploring the ideological, ethical, political and esthetic forces that influence their interpretation. Photographs, Histories, and Meanings (Palgrave Macmillan, […]