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Researcher awarded prestigious Banting Fellowship comes to York

Nielson Bezerra, who received his PhD at Universidade Federal de Fluminense in Brazil in 2010 and now teaches at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, has been awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research program at York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute. The awards were announced by Gary Goodyear, minister of state […]

PhD student in the Tubman Institute selected as Nahum Goldmann Fellow

Winnipeg born and raised Karlee Sapoznik, a PhD candidate in history at the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University, was selected as a fellow for the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship that will take place in Israel from June 12 to June 20, wrote the Jewish Tribune March 9: She was recommended by Ruth Klein, national director […]

SSHRC-funded international workshop examines forced marriages in conflict stituations

York law & society Professor Annie Bunting (LLB ’88) and The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples are hosting an international workshop on forced marriage in conflict situations today and tomorrow in Room 305 York Lanes on the Keele campus. Left: Annie Bunting Bringing together historians of slavery and women’s human rights […]