This month’s ‘Get to know our faculty’ profile features assistant professor Gabby Moser whose current field of research is visual citizenship, and especially the role photography plays–both in artworks and through everyday objects, such as family snapshots–in shaping who can be seen and recognized as a citizen.
Celia Haig-Brown, a Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, wrote a master’s thesis on Kamloops residential schools in the mid-1980’s, the work was published as a book but was ignored. Haig-Brown has returned to the work and recently published ‘Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School―Resistance and a Reckoning’ in light of recent events.
Making the Shift (MtS), a youth homelessness social innovation lab co-led by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University, will host a virtual discussion on “Using Data and Evidence to End Homelessness: Drawing lessons from the United Kingdom” on Nov. 17 at 11 a.m.
Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a Ph.D. student of Education: Language, Culture & Teaching at York University, writes about the federal government identifying international students as a key source of talent for the growth and sustenance of the Canadian economy, and to address the skilled labour shortages.
Professor Carl E. James is the winner of the prestigious 2022 Killam Prize for Social Science. The sociologist has studied Canada’s schools and universities for 40 years. He argues there is much to learn about how racialized students can succeed in education.
Sue Winton, associate professor in York University’s Faculty of Education, will draw on her book Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada, (University of Toronto Press), to explain how growing education privatization is undermining public education and democracy during a public talk, Nov. 8.
The Faculty of Education’s Student Association (FESA) is a great resource to stay up to date with everything happening in Faculty…
Recently there has been a resurgence of movements across North America resisting anti-racist reforms such as the use of critical race…
Naomi Norquay, a senior scholar at York University, and Rachel Lobo of the University of Toronto set out to work on uncovering the narratives of the people buried at the Greenwood Cemetery’s indigent plot in 2020 before the pandemic.
York University has advanced to the top five in the 2023 Maclean’s University Rankings in the comprehensive category, moving up one spot from last year.