Due to the growing frequency and severity of disasters experienced around the world, and the ongoing need for management and mitigation of such risks, disaster and emergency management (DEM) has become an expanding academic and professional field that is sure to experience increased relevance – both domestically and internationally – for the foreseeable future. York […]
Exemplifying York University’s global leadership in sustainability, Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah from the School of Administrative Studies in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has set out to increase public understanding of the importance of sustainable energy – and its role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, energy security and environmental degradation – […]
In our first report of this kind, we recognize the outstanding work of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Our 2023-2024 Year in Review highlights major accomplishments, success stories and achievements connected to each principle in our academic plan. It includes by the numbers summaries, data and testimonials to celebrate the best of […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Juan Carlos Mezo-González. Dr. Juan Carlos Mezo-González is a historian of sexuality and visual culture in the Americas who holds a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. As a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2024-2025), he is currently working […]
In the June 2024 issue of Global Policy journal, LA&PS Professor Gregory Chin assumed the role of guest editor for a collection of 10 articles focusing on The Evolution of the New Development Bank (NDB) within the journal’s Policy Insights Special Section. Global Policy journal — recognized in Google’s top 10 for international relations and […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Mai Ibrahim. Mai Ibrahim holds a PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from North Carolina State University and is a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2025). She will be working with Professor Kelly Bergstrom, an Assistant Professor in […]
Department of Humanities Professor Jean-Thomas Tremblay has co-authored a new book, titled Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024), which brings film studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis into novel configuration. The book makes a tripartite argument; first, that life is held together by contradictions which the contemporary climate crisis aggravates; second, that […]
Advancing YU is a mentorship and scholarship program in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) that links Black and/or women third- and fourth-year students with experienced alumni mentors, and provides professional and personal development opportunities. A critical component of the Advancing YU program is matching student mentees with alumni mentors who […]
Following the fifth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research (CPGH) Workshop, York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the CPGH steering committee have awarded four York U researchers this year’s $7,000 CPGH Seed Grants to initiate novel and innovative ideas that take a critical social science approach to global health […]
When political science major Sara Harsini heard York University was hosting a Model European Union (EU) for university students nationwide, she signed up to participate and convinced her third-year classmate, Nawal Alhawari, to join her. The Model EU, a simulation of the work done by the European governing body, was held this spring and organized by Heather MacRae, an […]