2024 100ABC Award
April 25, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein who has been honoured with a 2024 100ABC (Accomplished Black Canadian) Women Award! The 100ABC Award celebrates excellence and innovation highlighting individuals and organizations committed to fostering diversity, equity, and solidarity within economic systems. Dr. Hossein’s leadership and contributions have promoted alternative economic models that prioritize social justice, and […]
ASSU Award
April 3, 2024
Congratulations to Ziibiing Lab director and Professor Uahikea Maile, who has received the 2023-24 Terry Buckland Award for Diversity and Equity in Education from the Arts and Science Students’ Union (ASSU), the academic union for over 27,000 full-time undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts & Science. This award is awarded annually by the Executive […]
ASIL Certificate of Merit
April 1, 2024
Congratulations to Tommaso Pavone whose book The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022), has received a certificate of merit in a specialized area of international law from the American Society of International Law (ASIL). ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization whose mission is to […]
Research Fellowship
December 19, 2023
Congratulations to Ato Onoma who has received a Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities (2024-2025). Twelve-month Faculty Research Fellows hold an office on the 10th floor of the Jackman Humanities Building and are central members of the Circle of Fellows. They are University of Toronto tenured faculty members by the time of their […]
Connaught New Researcher Awards
December 5, 2023
Congratulations to the following faculty for each receiving a Connaught New Researcher Award: Uahikea Maile for his project Canadian Capital in Hawaii: How Canadian Tourism, Agribusiness, and Development are Violating Indigenous Rights Overseas Maria Mendez for her project Violence-keeping: Women’s role in organized criminal violence Alison Smith for her project Rent Banks as a Tool […]
Connaught ‘PhDs for Public Impact’ Fellow
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and an MA in Political Theory from the University of Chicago. Her doctoral research is on urban land use […]
Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the Governor General to three students determined to have the highest academic standing, candidates are evaluated based on their performance in degree […]
Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
August 3, 2023
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has awarded the 2023 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award to Professor Alison Smith for her book, Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2022). University of Toronto Press describes the book as exploring “the forces that shape intergovernmental and multilevel governance dynamics […]
Milner Memorial Award
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ziibiing Lab Director Uahikea Maile on receiving, along with his Censure U of T colleagues, the Milner Memorial Award. The award was established by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in 1969 in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, to recognize a distinguished contribution […]
Ran Hirschl named David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Ran Hirschl who has been appointed the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2028. Professor Hirschl studies constitutional law and constitutional institutions and their intersection with comparative politics and society. He is the author of several major books including City, State: Constitutionalism and […]