York University’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) is celebrating the launch of the “Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues” project website, which aims to foster critical collaboration and research innovation at the intersections of transnational feminism and memory studies. The new website serves as a virtual hub and communication platform for 24 project researchers […]
York University Professors Carmela Murdocca, Mark Winfield, and Deborah Britzman have earned Massey College appointments for the 2020-21 academic year. Murdocca, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has been offered the position of York-Massey Fellowship; while Britzman, Faculty of Education, and Winfield, Faculty of Environmental Studies, were awarded York-Massey Visiting Scholarships. “We are very […]
Eight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals. These YRCs belong to the seventh cohort of researchers to be appointed since the establishment of […]
In honour of Robert Everett, a distinguished senior assistant secretary of the University who made extraordinary contributions supporting University governance for nearly three decades, President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton established in 2018 the Robert Everett Exceptional Leadership in Student Governance Award to recognize and celebrate students and their impact on governance at York University. The student recipients […]
Each Thursday evening, York University student John Gaspar turns on his computer and prepared to teach English – to students at Osaka University of Economics (OUE) in Japan, where it is Friday morning. Gaspar, who is majoring in English with a minor in film and video, is one of the participants in York International’s remote […]
York University Postdoctoral Fellow Salman Hussain (Anthropology) has been named as one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Banting is valued at $70,000 per year for two years and supports postdoctoral researchers who will positively contribute to the country’s economic, social and research-based growth. The scholarships have allowed researchers to […]
Dear LA&PS community, Over the last weeks, the Dean’s Office has met with students, staff, and faculty members regarding the actions that we need to take in order to address anti-Black racism in our Faculty and our community. We are so grateful to you for your comments, criticisms, and engagement. Thank you. We know we […]
The following is an important message to the University community: La version française suit la version anglaise. Dear York community: As the University begins to plan for a gradual and phased return to our campuses, it is important to recognize that the pandemic state of emergency is still in effect. York has joined all […]
On May 30, Bonifacio Eugenio Romero, a 31-year-old migrant worker working near Windsor, Ontario, died of COVID-19. He was one of the youngest in the region to die of COVID-19, and had no pre-existing health conditions. Some have claimed the pandemic to be the “great equalizer;” however, due to the ways in which the labour […]
More attention is needed on the impact of post-migration conditions on depression-level symptoms for Syrian refugees in Canada, according to new research out of York University. A paper published in the Journal of Mental Health on May 21 studies the prevalence of depression-level symptoms in a sample of participants in Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative […]