16 International Development Studies students receive 2024 Faculty of Arts Internship Awards

Please join us in congratulating 16 International Development Studies students -recipients of the 2024 Faculty of Arts Internship Awards.

Simone Poku, U0, International Development Studies

Honours Information Session - April 3

Wednesday, April 3 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in LEA 738

Please see attached flyer for more information. 

Fellowship Announcement 2023-2024

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 fellowship recipients!

Trudeau Scholar: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/lily-cannelle-mathieu

New Ecozoic Initiative - Dept. of Anthropology seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow

The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.

Meilin Ma (2021), Ryersonian interview with Sandra Hyde on “Racism against Asians in North America Surging,” March 29. https://ryersonian.ca/racism-against-asians-in-north-america-surging/

Congratulations to Dr. Hillary Kaell who won a SSHRC Insight grant for a 5-year project on ecological and spiritual disruptions in coastal regions of the United States

VOX POPULI ON PANDEMIC by Prof. Sandra Hyde (The Hill Times, 2021)

“Epidemics are not random events that drop from the sky without warning. Epidemic outbreaks follow the fault lines of society, where they begin to entrench more” along racial and economic disparities

Congratulations to our incoming MA student Daisy Couture for winning a McCall MacBain Scholarship!

The McCall MacBain Scholarship enables students to pursue a fully funded master’s or professional degree at McGill University while connecting with mentors and participating in an intensive leadership development program.

Prof. Katherine Lemons' book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural SAMSA Book Award

Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Lemons whose book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) has just received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) Book Award, which recognizes scholarship taking place within the field of South Asian Muslim Studies.

Prof. Ronald Niezen awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professorship

Congratulations to Prof. Ronald Niezen, , for being awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professorship

Many congratulations to Prof. Hillary Kaell (jointly appointed with the School for Religious Studies) for being awarded a Wlliam Dawson Chair

Sandra Teresa Hyde - Editor for a 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology

Sandra Teresa Hyde was the Editor for 2020 Special Issue of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness titled "Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling."

Medical Anthropologists weigh in on COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic sadly removed members of the Anthropology department from our face to face collective spaces. To fill this void, the Anthropology Graduate Students collectively created Talking Culture and its mini-series COVID Conversations. As the producer and host, Alejandra Melian-Morse conducted nine interviews on how COVID-19 entangled scholarship and lives.