York Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui has donated a total of $4 million to create the Elizabeth (Betty) Sabiston Graduate Scholarship in the Study of Women, the Hédi Bouraoui Graduate Fellowship in Liberal Arts, and the Hédi Bouraoui Research Fund, which will be housed within York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS).
The scholarships were established to honour the life-long work and legacy of Prof. Elizabeth Sabiston, Bouraoui’s late wife. Sabiston, a professor emerita from York’s English Department, specialized in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, with a focus on women authors.