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The Royal Society of Canada elects five 91��ɫ professors into its ranks

ls1207 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:28:37 +0000

Five 91��ɫ professors have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). They are: Philip Girard, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School; Jennifer Hyndman, associate vice-president research and a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Michele Johnson, associate dean of students and a history professor in LA&PS; and Christina Petrowska Quilico, a music professor in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. Appointed to the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Jane Heffernan, a professor of mathematics and statistics in the Faculty of Science.

“91��ɫ is delighted to see that professors Girard, Hyndman, Johnson, Petrowska Quilico and Heffernan have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada,” said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. “These exceptional researchers embody our vision to enhance our impact on the social, economic, culture and overall well-being of the communities we serve.”

Royal Society Fellows

Philip Girard

Philip Girard
Osgoode Hall Law School

Philip Girard’s prize-winning work on the legal history of Canada has shaped the field and redefined its agenda for the 21st century. Tracing the roots of today’s legal pluralism to the historic encounter of two European empires with Indigenous peoples in northern North America, he stresses how this pluralism allowed Quebec civil law to flourish on a continent of common law and now creates space for the renaissance of Indigenous law.

Jennifer Hyndman

Jennifer Hyndman
Centre for Refugee Studies
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Jennifer Hyndman studies geographies of forced migration, ethnography of the international refugee regime, feminist geopolitics, critical refugee studies and extended exile. Her research addresses violence in relation to diaspora and displacement among Tamils and other people on the move, international humanitarianism in war zones, as well as refugee and migrant inclusion in Canada.

Michele Johnson

Michele Johnson
Department of History
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

An international leader in Black history, Michele Johnson is esteemed for rigorous and methodologically innovative studies of cultural production and performance, race and racialization, gender relations and labour among persons of African descent in the Caribbean and Canada. Equally committed to networking and communicating with multiple audiences, Johnson has employed her global prominence to benefit students and scholars around the world, and to promote wider community engagement with Black history.

Christina Petrowska Quilico

Christina Petrowska Quilico��.��.
Department of Music
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Appointed to the Order of Canada “for her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist and for championing Canadian music,” Christina Petrowska Quilico, professor of musicology and piano performance at 91��ɫ, has opened the ears of students and audiences with numerous premieres of music of our time, featuring many women composers and repertoire ranging from baroque to the present in solos, chamber works, 45 concertos and on over 50 internationally acclaimed CDs.

RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Jane Heffernan

Jane Heffernan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science

Jane Heffernan is a recognized international leader in infectious disease modelling. Her Modelling Infection and Immunity Lab tackles important questions in mathematical epidemiology and in-host pathogen dynamics, using mathematical and computational modelling to ascertain key characteristics of pathogens, individual hosts, and populations that allow for disease spread and to determine public health and medical intervention strategies that will be needed to contain or eradicate an infectious disease.

These 91��ɫ faculty are among 89 new Fellows who have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement, and 51 new members of the RSC College. Recognition by the RSC for career achievement is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The RSC College consists of mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities, including those identified in emerging fields.

“This year, the Royal Society of Canada welcomes an outstanding cohort of artists, scholars and scientists, all of whom have excelled in their respective disciplines and are a real credit to Canada,” says RSC President Jeremy McNeil.

On Friday, Nov. 19, the RSC will welcome the Class of 2021 new RSC Fellows and new members of the RSC College and present awards for outstanding research and scholarly achievement.

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Six 91��ɫ professors elected to the Royal Society of Canada

muellerm — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has elected three 91��ɫ professors to its ranks as Fellows: Patrick Cavanagh, Glendon; Jonathan Edmondson, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); and Anna Hudson, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD). It has also elected three new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists: Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Faculty of Health; Marlis Schweitzer, AMPD; and Zheng Hong (George) Zhu, Lassonde School of Engineering.

There will be an induction ceremony on Nov. 22.

“91��ɫ is delighted to see that professors Cavanagh, Edmondson, Hudson, Pillai Riddell, Schweitzer and Zhu have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada,” said Rui Wang, interim vice-president research and innovation. “These exceptional researchers embody our vision to enhance our impact on the social, economic, culture and overall well-being of the communities we serve,” he added.

Three new Fellows

Academy of Social Sciences

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh, a Senior Research Fellow in psychology at Glendon, is a leading scholar in vision research. He has pioneered new directions in the perception of motion, colour, and shadow and the spatial and temporal resolution of visual attention. His work on the distortion of visual position caused by movement led to a new theory of position perception based in the cortical and subcortical areas of attention and eye movement control. His groundbreaking discoveries have been supported by numerous grants from research councils in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. His affiliation to Glendon and 91��ɫ is the result of a multi-Faculty co-operation, including the Faculties of Health, Science and Engineering, the VISTA research centre and the Office of the Provost.

Academy of Arts & Humanities

Jonathan Edmondson

Jonathan Edmondson, Distinguished Research Professor of history and classical studies in the LA&PS Department of History, is an expert in Roman history, in particular in the society, economy and culture of Roman Spain (especially Lusitania); Roman epigraphy; and Roman public spectacles, especially gladiators. He is currently working on cultural interaction and cultural change in the western Roman Empire and the social history of the Roman colony of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (Oxford University Press, 2015) and is part of an international team editing all Latin inscriptions of the Roman era (c. 1,500 texts) from Emerita for the second edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. In 2016, he launched a new digital humanities project, ADOPIA, a digital atlas of personal names from Roman Spain, which he co-directs with the support of a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant.

Academy of Arts & Humanities

Anna Hudson

Anna Hudson is an art historian/curator specializing in Canadian art, curatorial and Indigenous studies. As a 91��ɫ Research Chair and principal investigator of the SSHRC project Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage, Hudson aims to amplify the practice of cultural values by circumpolar Indigenous artists.

Drawing from her doctoral dissertation, Art and Social Progress: the Toronto community of Painters (1933-1950), Hudson continues historical research on humanist aesthetics and cultural activism.

Three new members

College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists

Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Rebecca Pillai Riddell, a Faculty of Health professor, associate vice-president research and passionate research teacher, has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. She has established the first norms for the development of acute pain behaviours in healthy infants, within the context of primary caregivers, through her Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (O.U.C.H.) Lab at 91��ɫ. Internationally, the O.U.C.H. cohort is known to be the largest longitudinal study on healthy infants and caregivers during vaccination to date. Her current research program has been supported by all three federal research councils (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council and SSHRC), alongside a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant.

Marlis Schweitzer

Marlis Schweitzer, an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, has written and co-edited a number of books, including Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance (2015), When Broadway was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture (2019), and Performance Studies in Canada (McGill Queen’s, 2017, co-edited with Laura Levin). She is currently completing a SSHRC-funded monograph on 19th-century child actresses, entitled Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Anglo-American Girls on Nineteenth-century Stages. Schweitzer is past president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and current editor of Theatre Survey.

Zheng Hong (George) Zhu

Zheng Hong (George) Zhu is a professor and Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Lassonde School of Engineering. As a Tier 1 91��ɫ Research Chair in Space Technology, Zhu is currently leading the DESCENT (DEorbiting SpaceCraft using ElectrodyNamic Tethers) Cubesat mission – Canada’s first space debris removal technology demonstration mission – to be launched this year. His research interests touch on a number of topics, including the dynamics and control of tethered spacecraft systems, electrodynamic tether propulsion and space debris removal, space robotics and advanced spacecraft materials. This research resulted in over 140 peer-reviewed publications

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Research plus data analytics equals clearer picture of consumer behaviour

muellerm — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Beyond providing an overview of advertising methods and research, 91��ɫ’s University’s Russell Belk presses for the combination of qualitative research and data analytics to paint a more vivid picture of consumer behaviour.

Russell Belk

Russell Belk, a professor in the Schulich School of Business, elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2017, recently penned an article that sheds new light on advertising. The piece, published in the Journal of Advertising (January 2017), offers a keen evaluation of both advertising research methods and research with many engaging examples along the way from Dove to General Motors to Apple. Belk, a world leader for his work on the meaning of possessions, consumer desire and materialism, unpacks the ideas exceptionally well.

Belk suggests that qualitative advertising research could be combined with data analytics to produce richer and more complete understandings of consumer behavior. “Despite the rise of big data and the ease with which online experiments and surveys can be conducted, there’s more need than ever for qualitative advertising research,” says Belk. “Finding a way to integrate qualitative advertising research and big data is perhaps the hottest research ticket in town,” he adds.

Advertising research increasingly sophisticated

As illustrated in Mad Men, advertising became a driving force of Western economies by the mid-1950s. Fast-forward to 2018, and one can see how profoundly the Internet, sponsorship and product placement have transformed the consumer experience. As well, big data has provided advertisers a unique glimpse into consumer behaviour, facilitating more targeted marketing.

Alongside these trends, research about advertising has become increasingly sophisticated. Today, we have many tools to measure the impact of advertising on consumer behaviour – online surveys, focus groups, eye tracking studies, etc. – but we’re still a way from being able to demonstrate precisely how advertising affects consumption.

The Internet, sponsorship and produce placement have transformed today’s consumer experience

This is where Belk wanted to dig deeper, to understand more about the link between advertising and consumer behaviour. The goal of Belk’s latest research was to show how qualitative advertising research can bring us closer to such an understanding and help us to evaluate advertisements before, during and after they have been shown to consumers.

One interesting trend in advertising research that may be counterintuitive to many: In the academic world, the focus has shifted away from how to sell more products or make more money. This philosophical turn in advertising research began in the mid-1980s, when disciplines other than marketing began to study advertising ̶ such as history, sociology, women’s studies, communications, cultural studies and psychology. “Scholars in these areas take a critical look at advertising; they are less interested in the influence of advertising on product sales than in its role in selling the ideology of consumption,” Belk explains.

Big data has provided advertisers a unique glimpse into consumer behaviour, facilitating more targeted marketing

Research considers how and why advertising works or doesn’t work

Belk’s article is a literature review, a fulsome account of what has been published to date on this topic by scholars and researchers. It focuses on the role of qualitative analyses in revealing how ads are “read” by consumers, and considers two key areas (1) qualitative advertising research methods and (2) qualitative advertising research.

In the first section, Belk profiles studies that used many different approaches, including observation, interviews, focus groups, videography and netnography (Internet ethnography ̶ ethnography being the systematic study of people and cultures). Importantly, global and cross-cultural advertising research was also examined.

The second section is particularly insightful as it considers studies that investigate reader response to qualitative ads, which includes the complex analysis of how advertising does and does not affect people and why this happens.

This section also looks at qualitative studies of advertising and branding across cultures. It profiles cases of successful and unsuccessful ad campaigns. Examples include Cadillac, using Led Zeppelin music to appear hip and cool, and General Motors using product placement in The Matrix Reloaded for the same purpose.

Cadillac used Led Zeppelin music to appear hip and cool

One of the most interesting case studies is the failure of Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign, featuring models of differing body types, in Russia. The older generation, having grown up in the Communist regime, was suspicious of the campaign, while younger people rejected the ad because this generation aspired to Western ideals of beauty and conventional beauty stereotypes.

Belk also considers advertising and cultural co-optation – referring to the ability to assimilate, take or win over into a larger or established group. One prime example: white American teens appropriating rap music from inner-city Black teens. Here, Belk discusses how advertisers win over potential consumers by aligning with counterculture, even in cases of anti-advertising – such as Apple’s late 1990s “Think Different” campaign. Here, consumer resistance actually facilitates market rejuvenation through reframing how consumers think of purchases.

Qualitative research plus data analytics could deepen our understanding

Belk presses for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind consumer behaviour. “Despite the conclusion of some that, with big data, correlation is all that matters, not understanding why a correlational pattern occurs is a sure ticket to shortsightedness and mistakes,” he explains.

He concludes by suggesting ways in which qualitative advertising research could be combined with data analytics to produce richer and more complete understandings of consumer behavior in response to advertising.

The article, was published in the Journal of Advertising (January 2017). For more information on Belk, visit his .

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By Megan Mueller, manager, research communications, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, 91��ɫ, muellerm@yorku.ca

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91��ɫ U’s Deanne Williams inducted to the Royal Society of Canada

muellerm — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Professor Deanne Williams of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) at 91��ɫ was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada as a 2017 New College Inductee, in the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The induction took place Nov. 25.

Deanne Williams

She joins the five 2017 Fellows from 91��ɫ, announced in September: Professors Russell Belk (Schulich School of Business – elected as Fellow, but not yet inducted), Richard C. Hoffmann (LA&PS), Lesley A. Jacobs (LA&PS), Marcel Martel (LA&PS) and David McNab (LA&PS).

“91��ɫ is delighted to see that Professor Williams has been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada as one of the New College Inductees,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation. “This reflects the high regard in which 91��ɫ’s scholars, and 91��ɫ research, are held.”

Recognized internationally for pioneering work on Renaissance girlhood ̶ prominently displayed in Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (2014) ̶ Williams specializes in medieval and Renaissance literatures. She established her reputation early with her prize-winning The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (2004), which considers the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and Renaissance England by examining a variety of literary representations of, and responses to, France and “the French.” She is currently working on a history of the girl actor in early modern England, and on a book titled Girls and their Books in Early Modern England.

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Five 91��ɫ U professors elected to Royal Society of Canada

muellerm — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The achievements of five 91��ɫ professors have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada, which elected these five into its ranks as Fellows on Sept. 7.

“91��ɫ is delighted to see that five Professors – Russell Belk, Richard C. Hoffmann, Lesley A. Jacobs, Marcel Martel and David McNab – have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada, as Fellows,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation. “This reflects the high regard in which 91��ɫ’s academics and researchers, and 91��ɫ research, are held.”

The Royal Society of Canada Division of Humanities

Richard C. Hoffmann

Historian Richard C. Hoffmann, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), is the rare scholar who established a new subfield in his discipline. Through his internationally-renowned, prize-winning and pioneering scholarship, his mentoring of emerging scholars, and his networking and organizational activities, he has built the environmental history of premodern Europe. His collaboration with Austrian aquatic ecologists had an impact on public policy regarding the protection and management of indigenous fish species in a number of European countries.

David McNab

David McNab, Department of Equity Studies, LA&PS, is a renowned Métis historian and a leading authority in Canada’s movement to Reconciliation. His significant and innovative research on Indigenous Treaties, land, and resource issues in Canada is facilitating substantial return of land and resources or fair value compensation to indigenous people by governments. A prodigiously prolific scholar, his acclaimed scholarly publications and technical reports promote First Nations’ and Métis’ stories in Canada’s narratives.

The Royal Society of Canada Division des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Marcel Martel

Marcel Martel, LA&PS, is a renowned historian whose research on collective memory, identity formation and French Canada has redefined the traditional boundaries of these fields. He is the recipient of numerous awards, and holds the prestigious Avie Bennett Historica Canada chair in Canadian history at 91��ɫ. Martel publishes original scholarship in both French and English and his research is widely recognized for both its quality and impact on public policy.

The Royal Society of Canada Division of Social Sciences

Russell Belk

Russell Belk, Schulich School of Business, is a world leader for his work on the extended self, the meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, sharing, consumer desire, and materialism. In addition to more than 600 articles, books, and videos, he has received a number of international awards and honorary professorships on several continents. He helped found the field of Consumer Culture Theory, the Consumer Behavior Odyssey, and the Association for Consumer Research Film Festival.

Lesley A. Jacobs, LA&PS, is Professor of political science and law and society at 91��ɫ

Lesley Jacobs

and Director of the Institute for Social Research. He is an internationally recognized expert on human rights, equality of opportunity, and empirical studies of access to justice. His work has significantly impacted human rights policy and anti-racism law in Canada. His current research focuses on race-related data collection and meaningful access to civil justice.

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Researcher awarded prestigious Banting Fellowship comes to 91��ɫ

muellerm — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:00:00 +0000

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 91��ɫ’s Harriet Tubman Institute.

The awards were announced by Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science & technology, Thursday, Sept. 13. Bezerra will receive $140,000 in research funding over two years.

Nielson Bezerra

Bezarra’s research project, Liberated African Slaves in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century, examines patterns of forced migration of enslaved Africans to the Americas after the British and North American abolition of the slave trade. The research focuses on the 100,000 enslaved Africans who were destined for Brazil, but were removed from slave ships by the British Royal Navy after 1820 and declared “Liberated Africans”.

The individuals taken off these ships provide a representative sample of the migration to Brazil in this period. They will be studied for the purposes of revealing the broader pattern in determining where people came from in Africa and what happened to them in the Americas. Bezerra has published four books and is a member of the Board of Directors of Museu Vivo do São Bento in Duque de Caxias.

"The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are Canada's most prestigious awards for postdoctoral researchers," said Goodyear. "These internationally competitive awards allow our country to retain and attract some of the best and brightest researchers in the world, thereby building Canada's economic and competitive edge."

91��ɫ’s Vice-President Research & Innovation, Robert Haché, said, “We are most pleased to have Dr. Nielson Bezarra pursue his research program at 91��ɫ. The Banting Fellowship program leverages an opportunity to attract, retain and recognize exceptional postdoctoral researchers and support them early in their careers.”

As a post-doctoral fellow at 91��ɫ, Bezerra will be supervised by Professor Paul Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. Bezerra joins a research team that is digitizing and analyzing documentation on Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone, Angola, Cuba, and elsewhere, besides Brazil.

The purpose of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships is to build world-class research capacity by recruiting top-tier Canadian and international postdoctoral researchers at an internationally competitive level of funding. Seventy fellowships are awarded yearly through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Two 91��ɫ professors elected to the RSC

muellerm — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The achievements of two 91��ɫ professors have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), which has inducted them as Fellows.

Carl E. James, professor, in the Faculty of Education and Director, 91��ɫ Centre for Education & Community, and Norman Yan, professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and a core faculty member of the Institute for Research in Innovation & Sustainability, have been inducted into the society as Fellows.

“On behalf of the 91��ɫ community, I would like to offer our sincere congratulations to two of our faculty members, Carl James and Norman Yan, on being named as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,” said 91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. “This prestigious recognition is well-deserved as Drs. James and Yan are leading scholars who have made outstanding contributions in research in their fields.”

The society has elected 71 new Fellows, including one Foreign Fellow and one Honourary Fellow, to its ranks for 2012. The newly elected Fellows will be officially inducted on Saturday, November 14, 2012 during a ceremony held at The Ottawa Convention Centre. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is one of the highest honours a Canadian scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.

Carl E. James (left) is professor in the Faculty of Education and director of 91��ɫ Centre for Education and Community. He is also cross-appointed in the graduate programs in Sociology and Social Work. Over the years, he has conducted research that examines the schooling, educational, social and athletic experiences of marginalized and racialized youth. Long concerned with issues of equity, in his work, James seeks to address the problems and concerns that account for the representation and outcomes of racialized people in institutions and society generally. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden for his contribution to social equity and anti-racism education.

Norman Yan (right) is professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science. His long-term professional goals are to identify the separate and interactive effects of climate change, acid and metal pollution, and invading species on the life of Canadian lakes, and to determine the key factors that regulate the recovery of these lakes from historical damage, once the stressors are removed. Much of his field work is executed in partnerships with Ontario government scientists at their laboratories near Dorset and Sudbury. After working for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for 25 years, Yan joined 91��ɫ in 2000. He now splits his time between the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Dorset Environmental Science Centre and 91��ɫ.

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Four 91��ɫ professors elected to the Royal Society of Canada

fmaquito — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:00:00 +0000

The achievements of four 91��ɫ professors have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), which has inducted them as Fellows.

Professor Pat Armstrong, a distinguished research professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Professor Isabella Bakker in the Department of Political Science in LA&PS; Professor Rishma Dunlop in the Faculty of Education and in the Department of English in LA&PS; and Professor Bernard Lightman in the Department of Humanities, LA&PS, have all been inducted into the society as Fellows.

“On behalf of the 91��ɫ community, I would like to offer our sincere congratulations to four of our faculty members on being named as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,” said President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. “This prestigious recognition is well-deserved as Drs. Armstrong, Bakker, Dunlop and Lightman are leading scholars who have made outstanding contributions in research in their fields.”

The society has elected 78 new Fellows, including two Foreign Fellows, and one Honorary Fellow to its ranks for 2011. The newly elected Fellows will be officially inducted on Saturday, Nov. 26, during a ceremony at the Ottawa Convention Centre.

Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is one of the highest honours awarded to Canadian scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences.

Pat Armstrong (right) is an internationally renowned sociologist with expertise in health care and women’s health, social policy, and gender and work. She has co-authored numerous books on health policy, including They Deserve Better: The Long-Term Care Experience in Canada and Scandinavia, Women’s Health: Intersections of Policy, Research and Practice, and Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services, among others. Armstrong is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research and an executive member of both the 91��ɫ Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy and Equity. She is the principal investigator for a major collaborative research initiative project titled “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices,” which is funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Isabella Bakker (left) teaches International Political Economy, Women and Politics and Public Finance. A leading global expert in her field, Bakker’s research examines the interplay between feminist perspectives and international public policy, with a focus on how macroeconomics and fiscal policy affect questions of gender and social justice. Bakker’s published work includes: Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy, Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction and The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at 91��ɫ since 1986, and has held visiting professorships at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California Santa Barbara and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, among other institutions. Bakker is a Trudeau Fellow and was named Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2004. She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded project “Budgeting for Women’s Human Rights in Canada”.

Rishma Dunlop (right) is an award-winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. She is founding editor of the international online literary journal Studio. Dunlop’s poetry collections include: White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004) and The Body of My Garden (2002). Next month, her fifth book, Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems will be published. Known for her innovative research that merges scholarly inquiry with artistic production, Dunlop has taught interdisciplinary seminars on research and artistic creation for over a decade. In 2009 to 2010, she was awarded the prestigious Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair at the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She won the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and her non-fiction and poetry have been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards. She is currently principal investigator on the SSHRC research initiative on poetry of witness, human Rights and transitional justice. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, cross-appointed to 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Education and the Department of English, where she was coordinator of the Creative Writing program from 2007 to 2011.

Bernard Lightman (left) is an internationally renowned historian and currently the editor of Isis, the quarterly journal of the History of Science Society. He is also director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at 91��ɫ. Lightman’s area of expertise is the cultural history of Victorian science. He is editor of the Pickering and Chatto Press monograph series, titled “Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century”, in which 14 books have been published. His publications include: The Origins of Agnosticism, Victorian Popularizers of Science, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain and Victorian Science in Context, among others. Currently, Lightman is working on a biography of the physicist John Tyndall, and he is the founder of an international correspondence project to collect and publish Tyndall’s letters. The project is being funded by the Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

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Professors John Saul and Paul Lovejoy to receive lifetime achievement awards from CAAS

fmaquito — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:00:00 +0000

For two 91��ɫ professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching.

91��ɫ Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and 91��ɫ Distinguished Research Professor in African history and Canada Research Chair Paul Lovejoy will be presented with the awards during the opening reception of the conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies – Africa Here; Africa There – at 91��ɫ May 5 to 7.

As 91��ɫ history Professor José C. Curto, co-organizer of the conference along with sociology Professor Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, says, “They’ve spent a lifetime fighting, in one way or another, for Africa. You can’t get any better than them.”

Right: John S. Saul

President of the CAAS Dennis Cordell wrote that Saul’s research achievements, along with his “deep and long-standing commitment to the struggle for equity, equality and human rights in Africa” are legion. He also pointed to Lovejoy’s “wonderful abilities to teach and mentor” students and younger colleagues.

Left: Paul Lovejoy

Lovejoy says the award is significant to him “because of the recognition of my contribution to understanding the history of people of African descent especially so since this is the UN International Year for People of African Descent and my personal commitment to exposing the crime of the ‘slave route’ and seeking reconciliation that can only be based on truth about the past.”

In addition to receiving lifetime achievement awards, both Saul and Lovejoy will launch books in conjunction with the conference Saturday, May 7, at Accents on Eglinton Bookstore, 1790 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto. Saul’s Liberation Lite: The Roots of Recolonization in Southern Africa (Three Essay Collective) will launch beginning at 6:30pm, followed by The Harriet Tubman Institute Series of which Lovejoy is the general series editor at 7pm. There are 10 books in the Tubman series, including Slavery, Islam and Diaspora; Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic Black Identities; and Africa and the Americas: Interconnections During the Slave Trade.

Liberation Lite is comprised of five essays. “The theme I’m emphasizing is that of liberation as a multiplex concept,” says Saul. His definition of liberation would include race, nation, class and gender, but also a democratically empowered voice. "Others in Africa and elsewhere have come to define liberation only in terms of the narrow construct of national independence."

Saul says liberation has to be multidimensional to be a useful concept. “We expected the liberation struggle would yield more than that,” more than simply national liberation, but also class, race and gender freedom. It is not simply an emphasis that "we white lefties had dreamt up and taken over to Africa. We learned it there. We learned it there from Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane, FRELIMO's first president, for example.” As it stands, “liberation has been pretty light and those who are concerned have to figure out how to deepen and enrich it,” he says. He also takes a critical stance towards global capitalism and corporate imperialism, and what he calls the "re-colonizing" of Africa by a new "empire of capital". In consequence, the concluding essay looks at why socialism still has significant resonance and merit in southern Africa and beyond.

Saul has published some 19 books, including Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze Frames from a Life (Arbeiter Ring, 2009) (see YFile, Jan. 13, 2010), Development after Globalization: Theory and Practice for the Embattled South in a New Imperial Age (Fernwood Publishing, 2006) and Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond (Fernwood Publishing, 2008).

He is hard at work on three more books. He says the lifetime achievement award may well be an acknowledgement of his body of work, but he is also accepting it “on behalf of all those who have worked diligently in support of South African-related struggles over the years, as well as against Canada's own complicity – that is, our government and corporations too often being on the wrong side of such struggles there.” In 2004, Saul was elected fellow of the .

Last year, Lovejoy received the Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the discipline. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and has dedicated his career to researching and teaching African history.

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President's video highlights best of 2010, including Sherman Centre opening

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A new video from 91��ɫ President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri offers a welcome back message to students returning for the winter term. Building on the success of his fall welcome message, the president offers a recap of the major milestones and news events of the past term.

In the high-definition video filmed in the Learning Commons at the Scott Library, available on the Office of the President website and , Shoukri congratulates some 2,000 students who graduated during Fall Convocation ceremonies. He also commends the Sherman Health Science Research Centre's opening and the induction of four 91��ɫ professors into the Royal Society of Canada, among other student and campus achievements.

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