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Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 2: Winseck Goes to Lugano

Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 2: Winseck Goes to Lugano

Sabbatical is a unique privilege of scholarly life. Deriving from the Latin word sabbaticus, which originally meant “rest or cessation from labor or tillage,” it refers today to an academic’s... More

Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 1: Liam Young and the Life of Salt

Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 1: Liam Young and the Life of Salt

Sabbatical is a unique privilege of scholarly life. Deriving from the Latin word sabbaticus, which originally meant “rest or cessation from labor or tillage,” it today refers to an academic’s... More

COMS program welcomes Argentine scholar Ana Bizberge

COMS program welcomes Argentine scholar Ana Bizberge

The School of Journalism and Communication is pleased to welcome Ana Bizberge as a visiting scholar for the Fall 2022 semester. Bizberge, whose expertise is regulation of the media and... More

Dean Spade delivers 13th Attallah Lecture

Dean Spade delivers 13th Attallah Lecture

In his 2019 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), Seattle University law professor Dean Spade explores how ordinary citizens develop strategies to support and care... More

Irena Knezevic appointed Chair in Teaching Innovation

Irena Knezevic appointed Chair in Teaching Innovation

Communications faculty lead major field journals

Communications faculty lead major field journals

For more than four decades, Carleton’s communication program has been a national leader in research and scholarship. Several faculty members have won major book awards, received substantial grants from external... More

Dr. Siobhan Angus joins communications faculty

Dr. Siobhan Angus joins communications faculty

The School of Journalism and Communication is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Siobhan Angus as its newest faculty member in communication and media studies. Angus’s expertise in visual... More

The School of Journalism and Communication congratulates Dr. Kathy Dobson

The School of Journalism and Communication congratulates Dr. Kathy Dobson

The School of Journalism and Communication congratulates Dr. Kathy Dobson on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation, Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social... More

Benjamin Woo: Researcher of geek culture steps forward as EDI advocate

Benjamin Woo: Researcher of geek culture steps forward as EDI advocate

Dr. Benjamin Woo recognized for excellence in graduate student mentorship

Dr. Benjamin Woo recognized for excellence in graduate student mentorship

Associate Professor Benjamin Woo was one of eight Carleton University professors recognized by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for excellence in graduate student mentorship at a virtual reception... More

B.CoMS Alumni is recipient of Ottawa’s Forty Under 40

B.CoMS Alumni is recipient of Ottawa’s Forty Under 40

B.CoMS Graduate is recipient of Ottawa’s Forty Under 40. Carleton Communication and Media Studies Alumni, Kayla Isabelle, has been recognized as one of Ottawa’s Forty Under 40.  Recipients of the... More

Two Journalism and Communication students win Emerge Media Awards

Two Journalism and Communication students win Emerge Media Awards

By Jena Lynde-Smith Two Carleton Journalism and Communication students have been awarded 2022 Emerge Media Awards. The annual awards, sponsored and hosted by the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, celebrate... More