Semra Sevi honoured with SSHRC Talent Award

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Semra Sevi, an assistant professor in the department of political science in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has received the Talent Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Awarded annually among the council’s annual Impact Awards, the prize recognizes the highest achievements in SSHRC-funded research, knowledge mobilization and scholarship, as well as the highest achievements resulting from a SSHRC fellowship. In particular, the Talent Award recognizes outstanding research achievement and career potential from a SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellowship or scholarship holder.

“Despite having only just received her doctorate in political science (with distinction) from Université de Montréal in 2021, Semra Sevi has already demonstrated she is an outstanding and prolific researcher with impact as a public scholar,” noted SSHRC in its award citation.

“I am committed to open science and developing research-driven responses to political inequality,” says Sevi, who was most recently a Banting postdoctoral researcher in the department of political science at Columbia University and received the award prior to joining U of T.

“SSHRC support gives my research credibility and has encouraged me to keep going.”

Sevi has earned global recognition for creating and making public datasets of all candidates for office in Canadian federal elections since 1867. This achievement was central to her doctoral dissertation, titled What Voters Want: Identifying Voter Preferences for Candidates. The datasets were first published on the Harvard University Dataverse in 2019 and have since been downloaded thousands of times. They have also formed the basis of eight of nearly 20 peer-reviewed articles that Sevi has written.

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Robyn Maynard receives Talent Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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Robyn Maynard receives Talent Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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Women and Gender Studies

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The University of Toronto’s Robyn Maynard is this year’s winner of the Talent Award, one of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact awards.

“I am thrilled to learn that Robyn has been recognized for her academic excellence and research talent,” said Melanie Woodin, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science. “Her work on race, gender and discrimination has had measurable and material impact on the lives of Black and Indigenous people in Canada and beyond. This distinction is a testament to the high regard in which she is held by her peers, colleagues and partners.”

A doctoral student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at U of T, studying under the supervision of Associate Professor Eve Tuck, Maynard is an award-winning author, Vanier scholar and community organizer whose work focuses on racist and gender-based violence and discrimination. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation project explores the recent political contributions of Black social movements in support of the human rights of Black migrants.

“The University of Toronto congratulates Robyn Maynard on this important recognition,” said University Professor Ted Sargent, U of T’s vice-president, research and innovation and strategic initiatives. “Her research has already made a significant impact – and her expertise and leadership are also helping audiences beyond academia better understand the social, gendered and economic marginalization experienced by Black migrants in the U.K., Canada and the United States.”

Maynard’s 2017 book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, won the 2018 Errol Sharpe Book Prize and was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction.

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Robyn Maynard receives Talent Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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