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Research That Resonates: Advancing Knowledge in Arts and Social Sciences

FASS research addresses the world’s most pressing and complex questions. Our cutting-edge researchers work across a broad spectrum of disciplines and engage with scholarly, community, and public audiences through academic publications and presentations, artistic productions, newspaper and magazine articles, reports and policy briefs, and much more.

Arts and Social Sciences Research Review

Research Stories

Engaging narratives that illuminate the transformative research spearheaded by our faculty.

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Philosophy’s Dr. Jay Drydyk on the Ethics of High-Speed Rail Development

Retired Carleton philosophy professor Dr. Jay Drydyk is bringing decades of expertise in development ethics to one of Canada’s most debated infrastructure proposals: the ALTO…

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StudioDH and the Future of Interdisciplinary Research

By any conventional measure, StudioDH is a research lab. It has projects, partnerships, funding, objectives, and outcomes. But the people behind it will be the…

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Humanities in Practice

At universities, the humanities have always been concerned with how we make sense of the world, its histories, its tensions, and how people live within…

Research News

FASS Announces 2026–2027 Award Recipients

Jaffer Sheyholislami to Publish First Comprehensive Resource on the Kurdish Language

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FASS Faculty Members Receive SSHRC Connection Grants, Partnership Engage Grant

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Kevin Nunes Receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant 

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FASS Faculty Members Receive SSHRC Connection Grants 

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Two FASS Professors Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada