York professor's book will challenge low-wage work and explain the significance of living wages Understanding the differences between minimum wages and living wages has become more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted the reality that millions of “essential workers” were not able to put a halt to their services, even during a […]
History in Practice website provides instructors with resources on critical perspectives of mental health Due to the impacts of vast changes in our lives from COVID-19, York University course instructors may be thinking about connecting with mental health in their teaching this year. For this, the online source History in Practice (HiP) offers a terrific starting point. […]
Professor Linda Peake, director of the City Institute and a member of the Urban Studies program and the graduate programs in Geography, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies and Development Studies, is the 2020 winner of the Canadian Association of Geographers Award (CAG) for Scholarly Distinction. Read the full story in yFile.
Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Black Racism and Police Brutality Department of Social Science, including the Graduate Programs in Socio-legal Studies, Social and Political Thought and Development Studies June 5, 2020 The Department of Social Science is outraged by the brazen and endemic state-sanctioned racial violence and the increased militarization of policing across Turtle Island. We […]
The professor's new book can be ordered from the AMA Book website.
“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods Chairman John H. Tyson wrote in an open letter published in the New York Times earlier this week. And he’s not wrong. Over the past month, anyone following the news might have noticed images of seemingly endless food bank lineups juxtaposed against footage of milk being […]
"Professor Emilia Nielsen, from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published a book about breast cancer that tackles the issue in a very different way. Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair (University of Toronto Press, 2019) explores what she calls the “politically insistent narratives of illness” and refutes […]
A distinguished group of review panelists from the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) has recently recognized Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein as one of four 2020 CIES – African Diaspora Special Interest Group Emerging Scholars. Across its expansive network, CIES contributes to interdisciplinary understanding of education and scholarship […]
Four out of the five 2019 SSHRC Connection Grants in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) were awarded to professors in the Department of Social Science. Congratulations to Linda Peak (Urban Studies Program), Audrey Laurin-Lamothe (Business and Society Program), Merouan Mekouar (International Development Studies Program), and Ozgun Topak (Criminology Program). Read the […]
Law & Society Assistant Professor Annie Bunting said in a tweet that she was "honoured & humbled to receive this award in the mail from the Women’s Forum Sierra Leone on behalf of the @CSiWproject & its partners". The CSiW Project is the Conjugal Slavery in War partnership. It is funded by SSHRC and driven by […]