Undergraduate Students

Professor Sonia Laszlo awarded the 2026 AUS Teaching Award for Most Outstanding Professor

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:04:55 +0000

As announced by the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) at the March 2026 Arts Faculty Council Meeting, Professor Sonia Laszlo has been awarded the 2026 AUS Teaching Award for Most Outstanding Professor. We warmly congratulate Professor Laszlo on this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional dedication to teaching and student engagement.

Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature Inaugural Lecture

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:08 +0000

Talk by Dr. Antje Chan, Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature, Religion, Literature and the Shaping of Neighbourliness in Late Medieval England.

Professor Robert Engle, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded a honorary doctorate of science (D.Sc.)

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:28:55 +0000

Robert F. Engle, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a leading expert in time series analysis and the creator of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH), a method for the statistical modelling of time-varying volatility. His work revolutionized financial econometrics and is widely used in asset pricing and risk management. He is Co-Director of the NYU Stern Volatility Institute and co-founded the Society for Financial Econometrics.

Department welcomes Assistant Professor Kensuke Sakamoto

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:25:28 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Kensuke Sakamoto will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2026. Dr. Sakamoto earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. He is an expert in network econometrics and its applications.

Professor Fabian Lange delivers Innis Lecture at the 2026 Canadian Economic Association Meeting

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:26:40 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fabian Lange delivered the Harold Innis Lecture at the 60th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, held at Simon Fraser University in May 2026. The Innis Lecture, established in 1974 in honour of the great Canadian economist Harold Adams Innis, is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to economics in the broad sense in which Innis construed the subject.

Professor Fernando Saltiel receives tenure

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:27:52 +0000

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Fernando Saltiel has been granted tenure. Professor Saltiel joined ��Թ� in 2020 and has established himself as a leading researcher in labour and education economics. His work examines how cognitive and non-cognitive skills affect labour market outcomes, the role of firms in shaping skill development, and the impact of business cycles on labor market outcomes. We congratulate Professor Saltiel on this well-deserved recognition of his contributions to research, teaching, and service.

��Թ�’s Bravo Gala shines a spotlight on research excellence

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:18:30 +0000

At event honouring 116 winners of major awards, keynote speaker and SSHRC Gold Medal recipient Myriam Denov emphasized the importance of listening.

��Թ� celebrated more than 100 researchers at the 21st edition of Bravo, a gala event May 7 honouring the winners of major provincial, national and international research prizes and awards in 2025.

��Թ� awarded 16 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:51:34 +0000

From fundamental physics to child well-being, ��Թ� researchers advance discovery across disciplines

��Թ� has been awarded $18.1 million in federal funding to support 16 Canada Research Chairs – six new and 10 renewed.

Provost honours 31 ��Թ� professors for exceptional research achievements

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:18 +0000

The 2026 cohort of Distinguished James ��Թ� Professors, James ��Թ� Professors and William Dawson Scholars embody ‘the very best of our academic community’.

Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) Angela Campbell has named 31 ��Թ� professors as Distinguished James ��Թ� Professors, James ��Թ� Professors or William Dawson Scholars. The internal awards recognize exceptional research achievements.

Five scholarly journals at ��Թ� receive SSHRC funding

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:05:35 +0000

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) awards $598,278 to five ��Թ� journals spanning disciplines from law to religion

Congrats to Professors Sandeep Banerjee and Allan Hepburn on their new publications!

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:25:55 +0000

Associate Professor Sandeep Banerjee co-edited Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh (Routledge, 2026) with Subho Basu.

Meet the ��Թ� Arts students behind the Montreal International Poetry Prize

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:34:27 +0000

Curious about what goes on behind the scenes of an international poetry prize? The Faculty of Arts spoke to MA student Izzi Holmes and U3 Physics and English major Clara Costello about the important work they do for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the positive impact it has on the ��Թ� community, and on poets around the world.

Thomas Soehl awarded FRQ funding to study French-language integration among newcomers

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:30:10 +0000

��Թ� Professor Thomas Soehl has received funding to study the challenges allophone newcomers to Quebec face in building the francophone social networks necessary for integrating French into daily life and participating meaningfully in a predominantly French-speaking society.

A Look Back at "Remembering Homelands, Rebuilding Lives: On the Lived Experiences of the Cambodian Diaspora in Canada”

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:40:45 +0000

In early February 2026, the ��Թ� Southeast Asia Lecture Series hosted a two-day conference on the Cambodian diaspora. Professor Erik Kuhonta, from Department of Political Science and the Institute for the Study of International Development, offers some reflections on the conference's success.

Workshop examines leadership and lessons from internal displacement in Ukraine

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:33:54 +0000

Researchers, policymakers and displaced Ukrainian leaders gather in Warsaw to discuss action, advocacy and durable solutions to address the displacement crisis in Ukraine