Graduate student Lahoma Thomas awarded a Weston Doctoral Fellowship

April 25, 2013

Second-year graduate student, Lahoma Thomas, has been awarded a Weston Fellowship, which provides $50,000 in travel money to support doctoral research outside Canada. UofT awarded 16 fellowships across all fields, from humanities to social sciences to physical and life sciences. The Weston Fellowship is Canada’s only fully-funded award program dedicated to international research at the doctoral level.

Ms. Thomas will be traveling to the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica), studying political violence and insecurity in Jamaica.

For more information on the Weston Doctoral Fellowship and to see the full list of recipients please click here.