Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the 2026-2027 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Awards!

The winners were announced and celebrated at FASS’s annual vin d’honneur event, which took place on Thursday, March 26 at the ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Art Gallery.

Research Excellence Award

• Matthew J. Bellamy, Department of History
• Shelley Brown, Department of Psychology
• Fady Shanouda, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation
• Jesse Stewart, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music)

Excellence in Teaching Award

• Jodie Medd, Department of English Language and Literature
• Michael Windover, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Art and Architectural History)

Marson LaFrance Research Fellowship

• Patricia Ballamingie, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

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Congratulations to Kelly Babchishin (Department of Psychology), who received an (ERA) from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.Ěý 

, “Understanding and Addressing Technology-Facilitated Sexual Offences in Ontario,” will gather data from 800 university students and 800 adults convicted of sex offences to identify the factors linked to technology-facilitated sexual offences and the crossover from online sexual exploitation to in-person sexual offences. The findings will inform prevention programs and sexual education curricula for schools and universities to reduce the incidence of sexual offences and improve the management of sex offenders in Ontario to enhance public safety. These insights will also help alleviate pressure on Ontario’s criminal justice system by guiding more effective resource allocation. 

Four ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ researchers have been recognized by this year’s (ERAs). The Ontario government recently it is investing $75 million in 162 research and innovation projects across the province through the ERAs and the Ontario Research Fund. 

Each researcher will receive $140,000 from the Ontario government to support the direct and indirect costs of their projects, with ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ contributing an additional $50,000 in matching support. 

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Congratulations to Ellen Waterman (School for Studies in Art and Culture) and Maria Rogers (Department of Psychology) on receiving .Ěý

Dr. Waterman’s project, the Sonic Arts Participation Lab, will facilitate community-engaged research-creation projects in music, sound, and audiovisual art to address the complexities of ideological, technological, and environmental social change in Canada. The Lab will comprise audio and video equipment for co-creation, presentation, recording, post-production, and analysis of these collaborations. Adaptive equipment will facilitate equitable participation for d/Deaf and disability-led projects.  

Dr. Rogers’ project, Student absenteeism and child mental health in the post-pandemic era, addresses the dramatic increases in school absenteeism among the world’s children and youth. Emerging research suggests that student absences have doubled and even tripled in some regions, and rates of mental health problems in children are at an all-time high. Given the well-established links between school attendance and long-term child well-being and health, there is an urgent need to address the problem of student absenteeism. Dr. Rogers’ timely research will advance our understanding of this complex problem. 

The is a critical strategic investment tool designed to help institutions attract and retain the very best of current and future researchers. 

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Congratulations to Koreen Millard (DGES), who was awarded an NSERC Alliance Advantage Grant. In partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), Millard’s project aims to improve the ability of conservation managers to make informed decisions by harnessing information acquired from earth observation data. By improving field data collection protocols, developing best practices for high-resolution mapping, adapting or creating new open-source monitoring and change direction tools, and developing remote sensing techniques to better estimate carbon stocks in above-ground biomass, this project will enable land-based conservation practices to better protect our increasingly threatened biodiversity.  

support partner-driven projects that generate new knowledge/technology to address complex challenges and result in economic, environmental, and/or other societal benefits.   

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Congratulations to the FASS Award 2024-2025 recipients!

• Marston LaFrance Fellowship – Jennifer Evans – History – How Photography Shaped the Sexual Revolution
• Research Excellence – Sarah Brouillette – English
• Research Excellence – Amrita Hari – FIST
• Research Excellence – Marina Milyavskaya – Psychology
• Research Excellence – Kumiko Murasugi – SlaLS
• Excellence in Teaching – Virginia Caputo – SOAN
• Excellence in Teaching – Robin Norris – English
• Early Career Research – Fady Shanouda – FIST

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Congratulations to the following FASS researchers, who were awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grants in the February 2024 competition! 

Anna Hoefnagels (School for Studies in Art and Culture), along with ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Co-Applicant Kahente Horn-Miller and two Co-Applicants from the Native North American Travelling College, were awarded funding for the project “Indigenous Resurgence, Education and Community-Based Continuity: Onake and The Native North American Travelling College.” This event will consist of a three-day symposium and arts festival that brings together researchers, musicians, artists and curators to critically explore the role of the arts in sustaining and celebrating Kanien’kehĂĄ:ka (Mohawk) identity and traditions. 

Justin Paulson (Sociology and Anthropology) and ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Co-Applicant Philip Henderson (Institute of Political Economy), as well as team members from McMaster University and the University of Ottawa, received funding to host a two-day research colloquium. “The Work of (Anti)Colonialism: Organized Labour and Indigenous Struggles in Canada” aims to support a novel and timely scholarly dialogue on the relationships between Indigenous and labour movements in Canada. 

The “ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Indigenous Media-making Summer Institute” is led by Kester Dyer (School for Studies in Art and Culture) in collaboration with colleagues at both Wapikoni Mobile and ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University (Greg Allison, Teaching and Learning Services; Hasi Eldib, Educational Development Centre; Duncan McCue, School of Journalism and Communication; Ellen Waterman, School for Studies in Art and Culture). The project is a research-creation activity that fosters safe university and community spaces for emerging Indigenous artists where they can acquire new skills in media-making, generate original artworks, experience a range of culturally relevant activities, and make contacts in the academic and arts communities. 

Laura Madokoro (History) received funding for “Memory, Politics, and Precedent: Canada and the Kosovar Refugee Diaspora 25 Years On.” The grant will fund a one-day symposium commemorating the 25^th anniversary of the arrival of Kosovar Albanians to Canada and Canada’s military and diplomatic involvement in Kosovo, bringing together academics, immigration officials, policymakers, politicians, private citizens, representatives from aid organizations, as well as Kosovar Albanian refugees themselves. The project will also create a Kosovar Collection at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s Archives and Special Connections. Other researchers involved include Norman Hillmer (ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, History) as well as colleagues from the Canadian Immigration Historical Society, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and the University of Trinity College. 

Monica Patterson (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies) was awarded funding for “Intersections in Critical Curating Workshop,” a four-day event building on the project “Thinking Through the Museum: A Partnership Approach to Creating Difficult Knowledge in Public” (2021-28). The event will be co-hosted by ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, the Canadian Museum of History, and the Ottawa Art Gallery. With a focus on non-hierarchical and intra-network learning, event participants will both engage with and facilitate a range of roundtable discussions, exhibition/city walking tours, and workshops with additional time for networking and relationship-building. 

The SSHRC is pleased to support events and outreach activities geared towards short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. 

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Dr. Mathew Bellamy’s (Department of History) published an article “‘” won the 2024 Business History Conference’s Philip Scranton Best Article Prize.

Theor authors of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in the volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting.

Enterprise and Society is one of the leading international journals in business history. The article appeared digitally in 2022 and in print in 2023.

Finally, the article previously won Canadian Business History Association’s best article in business history (2023). 

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Congratulations to this year’s achievement award recipients!

Teaching Achievement Awards

ChloĂŤ Grace Fogarty-Bourget
Linguistics and Language Studies

Facilitating Academic Success: Targeted Strategies for Enhancing Undergraduate Writing

Undergraduate students face numerous challenges in the transition to university with respect to academic writing. Using a data-driven approach, this project will identify essential academic writing skills to support student success in the increasingly digital and varied academic landscape. ChloĂŤ’s expertise in writing studies and student engagement informs this work, as she aims to build a targeted writing strategies course attuned to the diverse needs of ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s students.

James McGowan
Studies in Art and Culture – Music

Digital Music Literacy in Scholarship and Pedagogy

University music programs often foreground European-originated music notation and cultural traditions more than other global and contemporary practices, excluding those without previous specialized study of Western art music. This project explores the pedagogical state of digital music literacy by contributing to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the field, and will create and curate inclusive, technology-focused curricula and instructional resources—including digital audio workstations, sound synthesis, and AI tools for music creation and analysis—using lenses of decolonization and EDI.

Contract Instructor Teaching Awards

Christopher Eaket
English Language and Literature; College of the Humanities 

Christopher is interested in the intersection between media and embodiment, the humanistic philosophies behind science fiction, and the politics of climate change. He has taught a range of classes from Shakespeare to Digital Humanities, Theatre History, Sci-fi and Philosophy, to Eco-Lit.

Kim Dudley Lassiter
Psychology

Kim is delighted to place her experience as a clinical psychologist in service to students at ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, her alma mater, through teaching courses related to mental health, substance use disorders and the profession of clinical psychology. These courses are an ideal opportunity to enhance students’ self-awareness and reflectivity and to de-stigmatize mental and substance use disorders.

Christopher McGrath
Philosophy

Christopher is interested in the historical development of and the systematic relationship between a cluster of themes that, he argues, are connected in an important way and constitute a certain tradition of philosophical reflection: the themes of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the teleological and aesthetic experience of nature, and God and religion. He has primarily studied Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Schleiermacher in this regard, and hope to broaden these studies historically.

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Congratulations to Julie Tomiak (Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies/Indigenous Studies) on receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Engage Grant in the December 2023 competition. The project, in partnership with the Algonquin Nation Secretariat, is titled “Anishinabe Algonquin land, dispossession, and restitution: Developing models and estimates of the value of timber extracted in the lower Dumoine watershed, 1870-1890.” It includes a team of five co-applicants and collaborators, including ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ researchers Justin Paulson (co-applicant, Sociology and Anthropology) and Vivian Hoffman (collaborator, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy and Administration). The project contributes to the challenge of addressing the dispossession of Anishinabe Algonquin land, and the associated disruption of Anishinabe Algonquin lives and livelihoods, by both the Crown and the Ottawa valley timer industry. It contributes by setting a floor on the value of timber and lumber extracted from the lower Dumoine watershed during the height of the valley’s lumber trade, and forms part of a larger, long-term research partnership.

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