Faculty of Arts

Ģ��Ƶ Arts Researchers Receive Over $2M in Funding from SSHRC

Andria Caputo — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:36:13 +0000

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently announced the recipients of its 2024 SSHRC Insight Grants awarding $127.6 million in funding to 693 research projects from institutions across Canada.

27 Ģ��Ƶ Arts professors are among the recipients, having received over $2 million in funding.

The recipients of the 2024 SSHRC Insight grants are:

Orsola Torrisi Awarded Anne Shepherd Prize from British Society for Population Studies

Andria Caputo — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:40:24 +0000

Orsola Torrisi, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and member of Ģ��Ƶ’s Centre for Population Dynamics, was awarded the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award from the British Society for Population Studies, a non-profitable society affiliated with the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.

For Torrisi, who obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics, this award is particularly meaningful having become a demographer in the UK and she hopes that it will help foster ongoing academic connections between Canadian and British institutions.

Mille secrets mille dangers en première mondiale au Festival international du film de Toronto

Andria Caputo — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:32:03 +0000

L’adaptation cinématographique du roman Mille secrets mille dangers d’Alain Farah, lauréat du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général en 2022, a été présentée en première mondiale au Festival international du film de Toronto le 5 et 6 septembre

Œuvre du réalisateur et scénariste québécois Philippe Falardeau, Mille secrets mille dangers, est la première adaptation cinématographique d’un roman d’Alain Farah. À l’instar du roman, le film est centré sur le jour du mariage d’Alain et de Virginie, et ouvre le récit d’une histoire d’amour, de famille et d’amitié.

Professor Francisco Ruge-Murcia Awarded Senior Houblon-Norman Fellowship from the Bank of England

Andria Caputo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:26:38 +0000

Francisco Ruge-Murcia, Professor of Economics at Ģ��Ƶ, has been awarded the Senior Houblon-Norman fellowship at the Bank of England for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Professor Ruge-Murcia will study the relative importance of monetary policy and of sectoral shocks, such as the large increase in oil prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in explaining the rise in inflation in several countries, including Canada and the UK, in 2022-2023.

Cindy Blackstock Awarded Royal Society of Canada Prize for Indigenous Engagement

Andria Caputo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:40:48 +0000

Cindy Blackstock, Professor, School of Social Work, was recently awarded the 2025 Royal Society of Canada Prize for Indigenous Engagement. Professor Blackstock, who is a member of the Gitxsan First Nation and Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, is being recognized for her work and research in child welfare and advocacy for the rights of Indigenous Children.

Ģ��Ƶ Arts Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers Awarded Vanier Scholarship and Banting Fellowship

Arts News — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:01:33 +0000

Three Ģ��Ƶ Arts doctoral and postdoctoral researchers have been awarded major funding from the Government of Canada in recognition of their academic excellence, leadership and research potential.

Austin Kraft, doctoral student from the Department of Linguistics and Camilo Miereles Salcedo, doctoral student from the Department of Anthropology, were among sixteen Ģ��Ƶ students who received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which provides up to $50,000 per year for three years.

School of Information Studies Professors Awarded $5.6M Grant to Propel Canada to the Forefront of Cybersecurity Data Analytics Research

Andria Caputo — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:18:20 +0000

Professor Benjamin Fung, Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, and Professor Steven Ding, both of the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts, are part of a team that has recently been awarded a $5.6 million grant, funded under the NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE. The project, the only one to receive funding from NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE, will provide a multimodal, comprehensive solution for exploratory analysis of unstructured data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity applications.

Meet the Faculty of Arts’ 2025 Cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars

Arts News — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:25:15 +0000

The fifth cohort of McCall MacBain scholars includes eight new scholars who will be pursuing graduate studies within the Faculty of Arts this upcoming Fall 2025.

Scholarship recipients Ayeyi Ohene Adu, Darlie Jean, Maheep Sandhu and Shane Joy will be pursuing MPP's at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Nina Zepcan and Wala Al-Sadi will both be pursuing and MISt in the School of Information Studies.

James Achuli will be pursuing an MA in Political Science and Michelle Wang will be pursuing an MA in Sociology.

Daniel Douek and Jacob Blanc Awarded H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching

Arts News — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:14:37 +0000

Two Ģ��Ƶ Arts professors were awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching during this year’s Spring 2025 Arts convocation ceremonies.

Daniel Douek, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Political Science, received the “huge honour” during Monday, June 2nd’s Arts B Ceremony.

A Word From Annika Pavlin, Spring 2025 Arts Valedictorian

Annika Pavlin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:18:05 +0000

As graduation ceremonies come to an end, I find myself less preoccupied with the past and not quite focused on the “future” either—but rather on the trajectory of life as a whole. Not all the places on campus I’ll miss, not summer plans or five-year projections, but direction. What will we do with all that we’ve learned? With the people we’ve become? How will these years shape the compass we’ll use to navigate everything that comes next?

It’s a bit like those twins in the womb, one whispering to the other: “Do you think there’s life after birth?”