Department for the Study of Religion / en 18 faculty members elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada /celebrates/18-faculty-members-elected-fellows-royal-society-canada <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">18 faculty members elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-09-09T12:58:49-04:00" title="Monday, September 9, 2024 - 12:58" class="datetime">Mon, 09/09/2024 - 12:58</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/centre-criminology-and-sociolegal-studies" hreflang="en">Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-biochemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-ecology-and-evolutionary-biology" hreflang="en">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-germanic-languages-literatures" hreflang="en">Department of Germanic Languages &amp; Literatures</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-medicine" hreflang="en">Department of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-physics" hreflang="en">Department of Physics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-and-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts and Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-music" hreflang="en">Faculty of Music</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/fellows-royal-society-canada" hreflang="en">Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/john-h-daniels-faculty-architecture-landscape-and-design" hreflang="en">John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/medical-biophysics" hreflang="en">Medical Biophysics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/oise" hreflang="en">OISE</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/royal-society-canada" hreflang="en">Royal Society of Canada</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">¸ŁŔűĽ§×ÔÎżMississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">¸ŁŔűĽ§×ÔÎżScarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Eighteen faculty members from across the University of Toronto have been appointed <a href="https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows">Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada</a> – a prestigious distinction given to the country’s most distinguished scholars, artists and scientists.</p> <p>“The University of Toronto is immensely proud to see such a high number of our faculty members elected to the Royal Society of Canada,” said&nbsp;<strong>Leah Cowen</strong>, U of T’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “These researchers are at the forefront of disciplines that span the arts, social sciences, humanities and sciences, and their work stands to have a significant impact on academic inquiry, policy and societal well-being.”</p> <p>The 2024 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada are:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Kamari Clarke</strong> of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Simon Coleman</strong> of the department for the study of religion in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Susan George</strong> of the University Health Network and the department of medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine</li> <li><strong>Willi Goetschel</strong> of the department of Germanic languages and literatures in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Aiyun Huang</strong> of the Faculty of Music</li> <li><strong>Hae-Young Kee</strong> of the department of physics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><a href="https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/about/news/09-05-24-oise-professor-kang-lee-elected-fellow-royal-society-canada"><strong>Kang Lee</strong> of the department of applied psychology and human development in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education</a></li> <li><strong>Ren-Ke Li </strong>of the University Health Network and the department of surgery in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine</li> <li><strong>Mathieu Lupien</strong> of the University Health Network and the department of medical biophysics in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine</li> <li><strong>Mark McGowan </strong>of the department of history in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-innovation/news/professor-kent-moore-elected-fellow-royal-society-canada"><strong>Kent Moore</strong> of the department of chemical and physical sciences at ¸ŁŔűĽ§×ÔÎżMississauga</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/jim-phillips-named-fellow-royal-society-canada"><strong>Jim&nbsp;Phillips</strong> of the Faculty of Law</a></li> <li><strong>John Rubinstein</strong> of the Hospital for Sick Children and the department of biochemistry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine</li> <li><strong>Brigitte Shim</strong> of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design</li> <li><a href="https://web.cs.toronto.edu/news-events/news/professor-raquel-urtasun-named-fellow-of-the-royal-society-of-canada"><strong>Raquel Urtasun</strong> of the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></li> <li><strong>Balint Virag</strong> of the department of computer and mathematical sciences at ¸ŁŔűĽ§×ÔÎżScarborough</li> <li><strong>Lucan Alan Way</strong> of the department of political science at ¸ŁŔűĽ§×ÔÎżScarborough</li> <li><strong>Stephen Wright</strong> of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://rsc-src.ca/en/news/royal-society-canada-announces-its-2024-cohort-fellows-and-college-members">Read the Royal Society of Canada press release</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:58:49 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 309292 at Five faculty members receive School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards /celebrates/five-faculty-members-receive-school-graduate-studies-supervision-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Five faculty members receive School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/teaching" hreflang="en">Teaching</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-05-27T11:48:00-04:00" title="Monday, May 27, 2024 - 11:48" class="datetime">Mon, 05/27/2024 - 11:48</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/dalla-lana-school-public-health" hreflang="en">Dalla Lana School of Public Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-anthropology" hreflang="en">Department of Anthropology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/early-career-supervision-award" hreflang="en">Early Career Supervision Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/jj-berry-smith-doctoral-supervision-award" hreflang="en">JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/lawrence-s-bloomberg-faculty-nursing" hreflang="en">Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/rehabilitation-sciences-institute" hreflang="en">Rehabilitation Sciences Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/school-graduate-studies" hreflang="en">School of Graduate Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-05/sgs-supervisory-awards-group-v2.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>(L-R) Angela Colantonio, Elizabeth Peter, Pamela Klassen, Angela Mashford-Pringle and Cillian O'Hogan (supplied images)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Five faculty members have been honoured with <a href="https://facultyandstaff.sgs.utoronto.ca/gfm/supervision-award-for-faculty-members/">School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards</a> in recognition of their outstanding and thoughtful supervision of graduate students.</p> <p><strong>Pamela Klassen</strong>, a professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s department for the study of religion who is cross-appointed to the department of anthropology, and <strong>Angela Colantonio</strong>, a professor in the department of occupational science and occupational therapy at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine who is cross-appointed to the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, received JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Awards, which recognize excellence in supervision over a minimum 15-year period.&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth Peter</strong>, a professor in the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, received an honourable mention.</p> <p><strong>Cillian O’Hogan</strong>, assistant professor in the department of medieval studies in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, and <strong>Angela Mashford-Pringle</strong>, an assistant professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, received Early Career Supervision Awards, which recognize pre-tenure faculty members who have been supervising graduate students for up to six years.</p> <h3><a href="https://facultyandstaff.sgs.utoronto.ca/gfm/supervision-award-for-faculty-members/">Read about the School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 27 May 2024 15:48:00 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 307903 at Amira Mittermaier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship /celebrates/amira-mittermaier-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Amira Mittermaier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-12T15:31:52-04:00" title="Monday, April 12, 2021 - 15:31" class="datetime">Mon, 04/12/2021 - 15:31</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/guggenheim-fellowship" hreflang="en">Guggenheim Fellowship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Amira%20Mittermaier-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Amira Mittermaier"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Amira Mittermaier</strong>, a professor in the departments for the study of religion and the department of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science at the University of Toronto has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from <a href="https://www.gf.org/">the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</a>.</p> <p>Mittermaier’s work weaves textual analysis with ethnographic fieldwork. Her research focuses on modern Islam in Egypt.&nbsp;</p> <p>“I’m thrilled and honored to have received a Guggenheim Fellowship,” Mittermaier said. “I look forward to getting started on my book about God and humans in Egypt today.&nbsp;My recent half-sabbatical was taken over by COVID-19 so I’m doubly grateful for this extra time coming my way.”</p> <p>Mittermaier’s first book,<em> Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination</em>, explores Muslim practices of dream interpretation, as they are inflected by Islamic reformism, Western psychology&nbsp;and mass mediation. Her more recent work, <em>Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times</em>, describes a religious ethics of giving in which believers engage with God by way of giving to the poor.&nbsp;</p> <p>“The question of how theologies shape lives has stayed with me throughout my career,” she says. “Working with Egyptian interlocutors with whom I have established long-term relationships, I study and write about Islam as it unfolds in the midst of their everyday lives.”&nbsp;</p> <p>Mittermaier describes her upcoming book as her most ambitious to date: an ethnographic study of God. In this work, she will apply her expertise in Islam&nbsp;and work with other scholars in the Abrahamic faiths.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/four-faculty-awarded-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:31:52 +0000 lanthierj 169034 at Kevin Lewis O'Neill awarded Guggenheim Fellowship /celebrates/kevin-lewis-o-neill-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Kevin Lewis O'Neill awarded Guggenheim Fellowship</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-12T15:29:55-04:00" title="Monday, April 12, 2021 - 15:29" class="datetime">Mon, 04/12/2021 - 15:29</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/guggenheim-fellowship" hreflang="en">Guggenheim Fellowship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/centre-diaspora-and-transnational-studies" hreflang="en">Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Kevin%20O%27Neill-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Kevin O'Neill"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Kevin Lewis O'Neill</strong>, a professor in the department for the study of religion in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science at the University of Toronto, has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from <a href="https://www.gf.org/">the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</a>.</p> <p>The director of<a href="https://cdts.utoronto.ca/"> the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies</a>, O’Neill is a pioneering scholar on the subject of clerical sexual abuse, particularly as it transcends borders. He is currently writing two books. The first considers clerical sexual abuse in Latin America, with a focus on U.S. priests who moved – or were moved – to Central America to evade suspicion. The second is an ethnography of traffic in Guatemala City that realigns conversations about security, mobility, and infrastructure in Latin America.</p> <p>“The Guggenheim Fellowship comes at exactly the right time for me: at a moment when I need some time to consider the conceptual and political intricacies of transnational clerical sexual abuse,” O'Neill says. “I’m very grateful to the Foundation.”</p> <p>O’Neill’s examination of the moral dimensions of contemporary political practice in Latin America informs the trilogy he has already written on the politics of Pentecostalism in Guatemala. Each of these books explores the “waning viability of disciplinary institutions and how new strains of Christian piety have become recognizable modes of governance in Central America.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/four-faculty-awarded-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:29:55 +0000 lanthierj 169032 at Four University of Toronto professors named 2021 Guggenheim Fellows /celebrates/four-university-toronto-professors-named-2021-guggenheim-fellows <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Four University of Toronto professors named 2021 Guggenheim Fellows</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-12T15:29:00-04:00" title="Monday, April 12, 2021 - 15:29" class="datetime">Mon, 04/12/2021 - 15:29</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/guggenheim-fellowships" hreflang="en">Guggenheim Fellowships</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-anthropology" hreflang="en">Department of Anthropology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/centre-diaspora-transnational-studies" hreflang="en">Centre for Diaspora &amp; Transnational Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/centre-criminology-and-sociolegal-studies" hreflang="en">Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/guggenheim%20group.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(L-R) Eugenia Kumacheva, Amira Mittermaier, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Kamari Clarke</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Four University of Toronto scholars – <strong>Kamari Clarke</strong>, <strong>Eugenia Kumacheva</strong>, <strong>Amira Mittermaier </strong>and <strong>Kevin Lewis O'Neill</strong> – have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships.</p> <p>The Faculty of Arts &amp; Science researchers&nbsp;are among 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists selected through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants&nbsp;this year.</p> <p>“Congratulations to Professors Clarke, Kumacheva, Mittermaier and O’Neill on this prestigious honour,” said <strong>Melanie Woodin</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science. “We are thrilled that four members of our faculty are receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is an incredible career achievement for a scholar, and it will allow them each to continue their important work in their respective areas of focus.”</p> <h4>The 2021 Guggenheim Fellows:</h4> <p>A distinguished professor at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Centre for Criminology &amp; Sociolegal Studies</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://cdts.utoronto.ca/" target="_blank">Centre for Diaspora &amp; Transnational Studies</a>, Clarke conducts&nbsp;research on issues related to legal institutions, international legal domains, religious nationalism and the politics of globalization and race.&nbsp;Her books include <em>Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa</em><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal; text-align:start"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="float:none">.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><a href="/celebrates/kamari-clarke-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Clarke&nbsp;</a></p> <p>A<a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/"> University Professor</a>&nbsp;and a distinguished professor in the&nbsp;department of chemistry, Kumacheva is cross-appointed to <a href="https://bme.utoronto.ca/">the&nbsp;Institute of&nbsp;Biomedical Engineering</a>. An&nbsp;expert in polymers and nanoparticles who is renowned for her microfluidics and polymer research, Kumacheva holds&nbsp;a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/eugenia-kumacheva-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Kumacheva</a></p> <p>A professor in the department for the study of religion and the department of anthropology, Mittermaier brings&nbsp;together textual analysis and ethnographic fieldwork with research that focuses on modern Islam in Egypt. She is the author of the books,&nbsp;<em>Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times</em> and <em>Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination</em>.</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/amira-mittermaier-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Mittermaier</a></p> <p>A professor in the department for the study of religion, O’Neill is a cultural anthropologist and director of <a href="https://cdts.utoronto.ca/">the Centre for Diaspora &amp; Transnational Studies</a> who works principally in Guatemala City. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_7Rc4B1B4">A member of the Royal Society of Canada</a>, O’Neill is a pioneering scholar on the subject of clerical sexual abuse, particularly as it transcends borders. He explores “questions of religion and politics with a philosophical interest in matters of belonging in exclusion.”</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/kevin-lewis-o-neill-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about O’Neill</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.gf.org/">The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has offered fellowships</a>&nbsp;to artists, scholars and scientists in all fields annually since 1925.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/four-faculty-awarded-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:29:00 +0000 lanthierj 169031 at Pamela Klassen receives award from Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program /celebrates/pamela-klassen-receives-award-connaught-community-partnerships-research-program <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Pamela Klassen receives award from Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-10-01T11:44:32-04:00" title="Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 11:44" class="datetime">Thu, 10/01/2020 - 11:44</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-study-religion" hreflang="en">Department for the Study of Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/connaught-community-research-partnerships-program" hreflang="en">Connaught Community Research Partnerships Program</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/PK%20at%20Rainy%20River%202019%20Annie%20Heckman.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Annie Heckman)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Professor <strong>Pamela Klassen </strong>of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science has received an award from the Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program for her project, Treaty Teachings: How Universities, Communities, and Museums Can Work Together to Tell the History of Treaty 3.</p> <p>“I’m so grateful for the support of the Connaught Community Research Partnership Program, and want to give a shout out to Dr. <strong>Krista Barclay</strong>, my postdoctoral fellow, whose intellectual leadership and community engagement expertise is at the heart of this project,” said Klassen. “Building relationships beyond academia ensures that our research is accessible to broader audiences, but also that it is grounded in and responds to the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities who are invested in the work of being treaty people.</p> <p>“We’re especially looking forward to the online teaching materials that will be developed during this project, which will be useful for students and museum visitors alike.</p> <p>The new initiative&nbsp;builds on <a href="https://storynations.utoronto.ca/">the&nbsp;Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations website</a>, a digital humanities project&nbsp;rooted in a long-term collaboration with Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre of the Rainy River First Nations, and will include small and large museums seeking to teach audiences about Treaty 3, an area&nbsp;west of Lake Superior that extends into Lake of the Woods.</p> <p>“Professor Klassen’s Treaty Teachings project is a wonderful example of the exceptional work that can come to fruition through collaboration with Indigenous peoples and community Elders, fellow researchers, museum professionals and students,” said&nbsp;<strong>Melanie Woodin</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/pamela-klassen-connaught-community-partnership-research">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:44:32 +0000 lanthierj 165797 at