Congratulations to the 2020-2021 FASS Award Recipients
Early Career Research Award
Faculty | Department | Research | |
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Kelly Fritsch | Sociology and Anthropology | Disability studies; crip and queer theory; accessibility; sociology of health, illness, and medicine; feminist science and technology studies; political economy; biopolitics; affect; cultural studies; gender and sexuality; social and political theory; social movements. | ![]() |
Karen Hébert | Geography and Environmental Studies | Environmental politics in the subarctic North; Resource industries and commercial fisheries; Struggles over sustainability. | ![]() |
Jean-Michel Landry | Sociology and Anthropology | Political Anthropology, Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Religion, Gender, Migration, the Middle East. | ![]() |
Vivian Solana | Sociology and Anthropology | Political and feminist anthropology, postcolonial studies, forced displacement, anti-colonial revolutionary movements, gender, generation and transnational activism. | ![]() |
Research Excellence Award
Faculty | Department | Research | |
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Katie Gunnell | Psychology | I am interested in understanding the psychological correlates and mechanisms of psychological health and behaviour across various populations including youth, adults, and individuals diagnosed with osteoporosis. In an effort to better understand how to enhance psychological health and physical activity and decrease screen time, I am particularly interested in psychological needs and motivation as mechanisms for change. | ![]() |
Andrea Howard | Psychology | My research primarily examines mental health (depression, anxiety) and substance use (alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other drugs) in adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Issues and challenges related to quantitative methods for developmental and clinical research also figure heavily in my work. | ![]() |
Catherine Khordoc | French | Research: My current research interests focus on transcultural writing in France and Québec as well as migrant writing in Québec and Canada. | ![]() |
Kevin Nunes | Psychology | The main focus of research in the Aggressive Cognitions and Behaviour Research (ACBR) Laboratory is on the conceptualization and measurement of cognitions (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, expectancies, etc.) thought to be relevant to sexual and nonsexual violent behaviour, and the role these cognitions may play in violent behaviour. Our main goal is to contribute to scientific knowledge about the causes of violence, which is the foundation of effective and efficient assessment and intervention aimed at managing and reducing violence. | ![]() |
Teaching Excellence
Faculty | Department | Research | |
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Augustine Park | Sociology and Anthropology | Critiques of liberal interventionism and peacebuilding; transitional justice; race/racialisation/racisms; theories of democracy; childhood; global southern childhoods; restorative justice. |
Teaching Development
Faculty | Department | Research | |
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Eva Kartchava | School of Linguistics and Language Studies | Second language acquisition, form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, individual differences, teacher education and cognition. |
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Danielle Kinsey | History | History of 19th century Britain and empire, comparative women’s and gender history, and global history. She is particularly interested in studying transnational connections and commodity chains that show the centuries-old development of globalization and how interconnection has been formative in the making of the modern world. Her current book project examines the meaning of diamonds in Britain and Empire across the nineteenth century. | ![]() |
Marston LaFrance
Faculty | Department | Research | |
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Mark Anderson | History | Zombies and the Death of Certainty in the Land of Perennial Rebirth
American popular culture (e.g., zombies, the frontier myth, westerns), media history (e.g., newspapers, periodicals, representation), Latin American revolutions (e.g., Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala), imperialism in the Americas (e.g., in particular, American behaviour). | ![]() |