Faculty of Arts

91�� Arts Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers Awarded Vanier Scholarship and Banting Fellowship

Arts News — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:01:33 +0000

Three 91�� Arts doctoral and postdoctoral researchers have been awarded major funding from the Government of Canada in recognition of their academic excellence, leadership and research potential.

Austin Kraft, doctoral student from the Department of Linguistics and Camilo Miereles Salcedo, doctoral student from the Department of Anthropology, were among sixteen 91�� students who received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which provides up to $50,000 per year for three years.

School of Information Studies Professors Awarded $5.6M Grant to Propel Canada to the Forefront of Cybersecurity Data Analytics Research

Andria Caputo — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:18:20 +0000

Professor Benjamin Fung, Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, and Professor Steven Ding, both of the School of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts, are part of a team that has recently been awarded a $5.6 million grant, funded under the NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE. The project, the only one to receive funding from NSERC Alliance Grants-CSE, will provide a multimodal, comprehensive solution for exploratory analysis of unstructured data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity applications.

Meet the Faculty of Arts’ 2025 Cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars

Arts News — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:25:15 +0000

The fifth cohort of McCall MacBain scholars includes eight new scholars who will be pursuing graduate studies within the Faculty of Arts this upcoming Fall 2025.

Scholarship recipients Ayeyi Ohene Adu, Darlie Jean, Maheep Sandhu and Shane Joy will be pursuing MPP's at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Nina Zepcan and Wala Al-Sadi will both be pursuing and MISt in the School of Information Studies.

James Achuli will be pursuing an MA in Political Science and Michelle Wang will be pursuing an MA in Sociology.

Daniel Douek and Jacob Blanc Awarded H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching

Arts News — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:14:37 +0000

Two 91�� Arts professors were awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching during this year’s Spring 2025 Arts convocation ceremonies.

Daniel Douek, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Political Science, received the “huge honour” during Monday, June 2nd’s Arts B Ceremony.

A Word From Annika Pavlin, Spring 2025 Arts Valedictorian

Annika Pavlin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:18:05 +0000

As graduation ceremonies come to an end, I find myself less preoccupied with the past and not quite focused on the “future” either—but rather on the trajectory of life as a whole. Not all the places on campus I’ll miss, not summer plans or five-year projections, but direction. What will we do with all that we’ve learned? With the people we’ve become? How will these years shape the compass we’ll use to navigate everything that comes next?

It’s a bit like those twins in the womb, one whispering to the other: “Do you think there’s life after birth?”

A Word From Arwen Low, Spring 2025 Arts Valedictorian

Arwen Low — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:14:51 +0000

91�� and I go way back. My parents got married at the Birks Chapel. My family moved to Montreal from New York state when my mom took a position as a professor in the Faculty of Education. I’m a proud graduate of SSMU daycare. I asked for tickets to the AUTS musical for all my tweenaged birthdays. Exploring 91�� as an undergraduate student felt like looking up and seeing the full picture – literally! What was once the endless field I ran in as a toddler became just another parkette surrounded by 91��’s eclectic mix of neoclassical and brutalist buildings.

A Word From Uma La Daca Jolicoeur, Spring 2025 Arts Valedictorian

Uma La Daca Jolicoeur — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:03:58 +0000

When I started at 91��, I didn’t know that a Hispanic literature course, taught by Timothy

Ostrom, would completely change the way I saw myself in academia. It wasn’t that everything I was learning was new — I’m Argentinian, I’ve spent a lot of time in Latin America, and I feel deeply rooted in those histories and cultures. But for the first time, my personal background and my academic interests felt equally valued. That moment shaped everything that came after.

Community Poetry Benefit for Sudan Brings Together Artists, Students and Poets

Andria Caputo — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:23:13 +0000

On April 27, the World Islamic and Middle East Studies Student Association (WIMESSA) hosted an evening of poetry, community and music to raise funds for the Sudan Solidarity Collective.

The event took place at La Sala Rossa, and featured music by Nadia Hawa Baldé, Waleed Abdulhamid, Najla Jaffel, and Messaouda Partouche Gutierrez, as well as poetry readings from the poetry collection published for the event, Where the Hibiscus Still Blooms.

Reading group offers a chance to exchange ideas with the Dean

Andria Caputo — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:58:00 +0000

When Sune Hamparian heard that Dean of Arts Lisa Shapiro had invited students, staff and faculty to participate in a monthly reading-and-discussion group, the U0 student from Washington, D.C. felt it was too interesting an opportunity to pass up.

Certainly, the last place she had expected to find herself was across the table from Shapiro in a small meeting room, exchanging ideas about the readings Shapiro had selected.

Focus on Emancipatory Research in Upcoming School of Social Work Symposium

Andria Caputo — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:44:27 +0000

On May 21-22, 91��’s School of Social Work will hold “Black Communities, Emancipatory Research, and Pathways to Liberation”, a two-day symposium that will consolidate and expand the state of knowledge regarding how to conduct research that empowers and uplifts Black communities in Canada.