Each spring, the President and the Vice-President Research & Innovation of York University take the opportunity to acknowledge York’s research leaders, and recognize the remarkable achievements of York’s community over the past year, a great number of which come from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS).

"Research excellence and innovation at York University are flourishing. York University’s researchers − recognized leaders and pioneers in their fields − are deeply committed to advancing innovative research projects across the vast spectrum of disciplines for the social, economic, cultural, environmental and other well-being of society," said York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton, and Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Haché in a joint statement. "We are deeply committed to supporting our researchers and scholars, and wish to extend our warmest congratulations and best wishes to all our research leaders for their continued success.

This year recognized 18 researchers from LA&PS including:

• Kristin Andrews was awarded a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Animal Minds.
• Uzo Anucha renewed a multi-million-dollar contract with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services for the Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX).
• Isabella Bakker was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Program in Global and International Studies.
• Lily Cho was awarded the York-Massey Fellowship for 2017-2018.
• Jonathan Edmondson was recognized as a Distinguished Research Professor in 2017.
• Richard C. Hoffmann was elected to the Royal Society of Canada Division of Humanities.
• Caroline Shenaz Hossein was awarded W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists for her book, Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
• Lesley A. Jacobs was elected to the Royal Society of Canada Division of Social Sciences.
• Kamala Kempadoo won the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
• Jennifer Korosi was awarded Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award.
• Nikita Lary won the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Prize for best scholarly translation.
• Bernard Lightman won Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title book prize for Science Museums in Transition: Anglo-American Cultures of Display in the 19th Century.
• Marcel Martel was elected to the Royal Society of Canada Division des Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
• Karen Bridget Murray was awarded the Killam Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts ª the only endowed chair in Canadian Studies at a public university in the United States.
• David McNab was elected to the Royal Society of Canada Division of Humanities.
• Linda Peake is the Principal Investigator for a major Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant focused on “Urbanization, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network.”
• Alicia Turner was awarded the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies for her book project that charts a genealogy of religious intolerance in Myanmar, from the colonial period to the present.
• Deanne Williams was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

See the full descriptions of the research achievements of these remarkable individuals in the PDF book, starting on page 10.