SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Lucas Crawford has
been awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for his University
of Alberta Ph.D. dissertation (Department of English and Film
Studies) "Archive, Transgender, Architecture: Woolf, Beckett,
diller scofidio + renfro." Lucas' two-year postdoctoral fellowship,
supervised by Prof. Annmarie Adams and hosted
jointly by the School of Architecture and McGill's Institute for
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (IGSF), focuses on the
transgender life of the High Line in New York City. In fall 2012 he
will be teaching SDST 250: Introduction to Sexual Diversity
Studies.