Outstanding Teaching Award
May 31, 2023
The faculty of Arts & Science has named Phillip Lipscy, director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan and chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs at the Munk School, as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award! Presented annually, the award recognizes teaching excellence in undergraduate and graduate education with a […]
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
May 23, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Nicole Wu has been selected to join the 2023-2025 cohort of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is welcoming 16 distinguished early-career researchers to the prestigious CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program, an ambitious initiative providing two years of unrestricted research funding to talented researchers […]
CPSA Award Shortlists
May 11, 2023
Congratulations to Emerita Professor Sylvia Bashevkin whose article, “Second-Wave Women’s Movements as Foreign Policy Actors: Assessing Canadian Feminist Interventions before 1995,” was shortlisted for the Best Article in Gender & Politics from CPSA’s Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS). Her paper “Explaining Reproductive Health Access: Provincial Abortion Policies in the Wake of Decriminalization, 1988-2018” was […]
Early Career Teaching Award
April 19, 2023
Congratulations to Uahikea Maile on receiving a 2022-23 Early Career Teaching Award which recognizes faculty who demonstrate an ‘exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation.’ Up to four awards are offered annually. Award recipients will be honoured at the annual Excellence in Teaching Reception to be held in the Fall.
Awards of Excellence 2023
March 2, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Craft, Dickson Eyoh, Lilach Gilady, Antoinette Handley, Ruth Marshall, Kanta Murali, Robert Vipond and Melissa Williams have been named this year’s recipients of the Northrop Frye Award (Faculty Team Category) for their collaboration on ‘The Undergraduate Curriculum Renewal Project,’ which developed and implemented a major renovation of the […]
Annual undergraduate award and scholarship celebration returns to in-person delivery
January 26, 2023
Congratulations to our 2021/22 undergraduate award & scholarship recipients! Following a two-year hiatus, the department was delighted to return to hosting our undergraduate awards in-person this year to celebrate our student’s outstanding scholarly talent, dedication, and commitment. Associate Chair and Undergraduate Director and Professor Kanta Murali, M.C. for the celebrations, welcomed student award recipients, their […]
Award Shortlist
November 30, 2022
Congratulations to Lynette Ong whose article “Thugs and Outsourcing of State Repression in China,” was shortlisted for the first annual Routledge Area Studies Award (Impact section). From the website: “The judges praised the high standard and quality of all the Award applications received. Our aim was to highlight original published research which showcases the unique […]
Winning Research
November 23, 2022
Congratulations to our faculty members who have received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 2022 Insight Development Grant: Phillip Lipscy (Title of Project: Institutional Racism in International Relations). Lynette Ong (Title of Project: The Politics of Real Estate in China and Hong Kong). Alison Smith (Title of Project: The Politics of […]
UTM Research Prize
October 26, 2022
Congratulations to Alison Smith who has received one of UTM’s annual research prizes for 2021-2022. Awarded to outstanding early career faculty members from the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Sciences, the award is open to tenured or tenure-stream faculty whose major appointment is at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Awards are made on the basis […]
Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize 2022
October 13, 2022
Congratulations to Kate Neville whose co-authored article “Slow Justice: A Framework for Tracing Diffusion and Legacies of Resistance” has been awarded the 2022 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize by the journal Social Movement Studies. The online announcement is as follows: “We dedicate this memorial prize to a wonderful colleague who left us far too soon, Britta […]