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The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Celebrates Extraordinary Faculty Achievement at the Annual vin d’honneur

Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences comes together at the vin d’honneur to celebrate our faculty’s recent accomplishments. This year, we gathered in a virtual setting.

Please watch the video below to view the impressive list of publications, grants, awards, and honours authored and received by our faculty since 2020!

2021-2022 FASS Award Winners

Professor Gül Kale
School for Studies in Art and Culture
FASS Early Career Research Award
Professor Kirk Luther
Department of Psychology
FASS Early Career Research Award
Professor Azar Masoumi
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
FASS Early Career Research Award
Professor Jaclyn Neel
College of the Humanities
FASS Early Career Research Award
Professor Shawna Dolansky
College of the Humanities
Research Excellence Award
Professor Cheryl Harasymchuk
Department of Psychology
Research Excellence Award
Professor Paul Keen
Department of English Language and Literature
Research Excellence Award
Professor Alexis Shotwell
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Research Excellence Award
Petra Watzlawik-Li
Centre for Initiatives in Education
Teaching Development Award
Dr. Shazia Sadaf
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
Excellence in Teaching Award
Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel
Department of English Language and Literature
Marston LaFrance Award

To learn more about recent publications, and to read news stories about awards, grants, and honours highlighted in the video above, please click the links below.

Publications and Stories
2020-2021 and 2021-2022 FASS Award Winners
Travis DeCook, The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought
Virginia Caputo, The Children’s Senator: Landon Pearson and a Lifetime of Advocacy
Chinnaiah Jangam, Dalits and the Making of Modern India
Shireen Hassim, Voices of Liberation: Fatima Meer
David Dean, Daniel McNeil, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
Aubrey Anable, A Concise Companion to Visual Culture
Andrew Wallace, The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Tonya Davidson, Seasonal Sociology
Shawn Graham, An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence
Jody Mason, Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement
Patrizia Gentile, Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
Eva Kartchava, The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching
Katharine Bausch, He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era
Mitchell B. Frank, History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines
Peter Thompson, Nights Below Foord Street
Barbara Leckie, Janice Schroder, London Labour and the London Poor: Selections
Jim Davies, Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
Sarah Phillips Casteel, Caribbean Jewish Crossings
Paul Keen, A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age
Paul Keen, Mary Wollstonecraft in Context
James Deaville, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising
CUAG, Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive
CUAG, Christi Belcourt
CUAG, They Forgot That We Were Seeds
COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants
Patricia Ballamingie, Research Achievement Award, 2020  
Shelley Brown, International Research Seed Grant
Christopher Burn, Arctic Inspiration Prize
Mayurika Chakravorty, Professional Achievement Award, 2020
Deborah Conners, Professional Achievement Award
Gabriele Contessa, SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Jim Davies, Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching Award, 2020
James Deaville, SSHRC Connections Grant
Kester Dyer, SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Jerzy Elžanowski, SSHRC Connections Grant
Jennifer Evans, SSRC Social Date Research Project
Janna Fox, Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award 2020
Kelly Fritsch, New Frontiers in Research Exploration
Louise de la Gorgendière, CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence
Shawn Graham, International Research Seed Grant
Shane Hawkins, SSHRC Connection Grant
Laura Horak, Research Achievement Award 2021
David Hugill, New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award 2020
Andrea Howard, Research Achievement Award 2021
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, 2020 Maria Elena Martinez Prize
Laura Madokoro, RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Azar Masoumi, SSHRC Exchange Grant
James McGowan, 2020-2023 CU Chair in Teaching Innovation
Rebecca Merkley, CUASA Teaching Excellence Award
Mike Murphy, Professional Achievement Award 2021
Julie Murray, Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award 2020
Xuan Thuy Nguyen, International Research Seed Grant
Augustine Park, Teaching Achievement Award 2021
Johanna Peetz, Research Achievement Award 2020
Carolyn Ramzy, SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Shazia Sadaf, Professional Achievement Award 2021
Joshua Shepherd, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars
Daniel Siddiqi, SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Fraser Taylor, 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming
Zoe Todd, RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Brenda Vellino, Teaching Achievement Award 2020
Ellen Waterman, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
Deanna Whelan, Teaching Achievement Award 2020
Kumiko Murasugi, Erik Anonby, John R. Evans Leaders Fund
Patrizia Gentile, Dan Irving, SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Sandra Dyck, Ellen Waterman, SSHRC Insight Development Grant

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