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Jacques Bertrand receives 2024 Dean’s Research Excellence Award
November 20, 2024
Congratulations to Jacques Bertrand, one of five FAS scholars being recognized with the Dean’s Research Excellence Awards.
Now in its third year, the awards were established to help accomplished mid-career researchers to compete successfully in national award competitions. The winning researchers are being celebrated for the sustained influence they exert in their respective disciplines. Each of them will receive $10,000 to further their research and professional development.
“Research excellence is a cornerstone of the Faculty of Arts & Science — the largest faculty at U of T, which is the country’s top-ranked research institution,” says Antoinette Handley, acting dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science. “This year, we proudly recognize a group of scholars whose collective work demonstrates the innovation, perseverance and accomplishment for which our faculty is widely known.”
Professor Bertrand is the director of the Collaborative Master’s Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies. He was the founding director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Asian Institute. He is also the co-founder of the Postcor Lab at U of T, a research hub for the study of civil wars and war-to-peace transitions.
Bertrand has worked for many years on issues of ethnic conflict, nationalism and secessionism in southeast Asia. His most recent book is entitled Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (w/ Ardeth Thawnghmung and Alexandre Pelletier, Cornell). In 2021, he published Democracy and Nationalist Struggles in Southeast Asia: From secessionist mobilization to conflict resolution (Cambridge). He is also the author of two other books on political change, nationalism and ethnic conflict in southeast Asia, and has co-edited two volumes: Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance (Cambridge); and Democratization and Ethnic Minorities: Conflict or Compromise? (Routledge.)