{"id":15329,"date":"2022-05-09T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=15329"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:46:33","slug":"megan-rivers-moore-and-manjeet-birk-receive-fass-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2022\/megan-rivers-moore-and-manjeet-birk-receive-fass-research-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rivers-Moore and Manjeet Birk receive FASS Research Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Megan Rivers-Moore and Manjeet Birk receive FASS Research Awards\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/megan-rivers-moore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megan Rivers-Moore<\/a>, Associate Professor in PJIWGS, has received a FASS Research Award, and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/manjeet-birk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manjeet Birk<\/a> has received a FASS Early-Career Research Award. Professor Rivers-Moore&#8217;s project is called &#8220;<em>Sex work and mutual aid in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/em>.&#8221;&nbsp; Professor Birk\u2019s research will interrogate race and racism in racialized and Indigenous student mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For further details from the Vin D\u2019Honneur celebrating the FASS Research Award winners, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2022\/04\/vin-dhonneur-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-manjeet-birk-she-her\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Manjeet Birk (she\/her)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-manjeet-birk-she-her\">\n            \n\n<p>Manjeet Birk (she\/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women\u2019s organizing, social justice and institutional racism using critical race, intersectional and decolonizing theories and methodologies. Her interests are grounded in her community activism working with women\u2019s organizations locally, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Birk recently returned from a year in Aotearoa, New Zealand, completing a SSHRC postdoc focused on her project <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2020\/manjeet-birk-begins-sshrc-postdoc-pathways-to-inclusion-of-indigenous-and-racialized-communities-a-comparative-analysis-between-canada-and-new-zealand\/\"><i>Pathways to Inclusion of Indigenous and Racialized Communities: A Comparative Analysis Between Canada and New Zealand<\/i><\/a>. This project involved collaborating with a team in the Department of Public Health at the Auckland University of Technology, in Auckland NZ to think through systemic and institutional racism particularly as it relates to racialized and Indigenous communities in Auckland. This will form the basis of a comparative analysis between Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. With a lifetime of experience organizing, troubling and challenging systems, Dr. Birk is always looking for new ways to re-conceptualize a more beautiful world.&nbsp;To learn more about Dr. Birk\u2019s work, you can also check out this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/story\/disrupting-discrimination\/\">FASS interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-megan-rivers-moore-she-her\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Megan Rivers-Moore (she\/her)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-megan-rivers-moore-she-her\">\n            \n\n<p>Megan Rivers-Moore is an Associate Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. Her research focuses on how gender and sexuality operate transnationally, including projects on sex tourism in Costa Rica, sex worker organizing across Latin America, and clandestine abortion. Her book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/G\/bo23935260.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;was published in English by the University of Chicago Press and in Spanish by the University of Costa Rica Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rivers-Moore\u2019s research takes place at the intersections of sociology, gender studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. Engaged in both academic and activist life in Costa Rica, she&nbsp; particularly interested in exploring how sexuality operates transnationally. Other research interests include gendered affective labour, travel and tourism, race and ethnicity, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and qualitative methods.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Rivers-Moore, Associate Professor in PJIWGS, has received a FASS Research Award, and Manjeet Birk has received a FASS Early-Career Research Award. Professor Rivers-Moore&#8217;s project is called &#8220;Sex work and mutual aid in Latin America and the Caribbean.&#8221;&nbsp; Professor Birk\u2019s research will interrogate race and racism in racialized and Indigenous student mental health. 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