We’re excited to share that Dr. Carolyn Ramzy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has published a new book of poetry titled Taslim: We Are the Prophets with Mawenzi House.

The publisher describes Ramzy’s book as

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Congratulations to Professor Blair Rutherford on being selected to receive the Arts and Social Sciences 2025–2026 Research Excellence Award! The FASS Research Excellence Awards (REA) support faculty in advancing their programs of research.

Professor Rutherford was honoured with the award at this year’s FASS Vin d’Honneur. To view Blair’s full profile, click here.

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The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is proud to announce the recent collaboration of faculty members Carolyn Ramzy, Danielle Dinovelli-Lang, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, and Vivian Solana in co-authoring a new article titled “.”

You can read the full article in the .

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Anthropology Professor Vivian Solana’s latest article, “,” has been published in American Ethnologist. The article examines the Polisario Front’s 29-year cease-fire with Morocco, exploring how humanitarian aid was used to strengthen nation-building efforts in exile. Solana also introduces the concept of an “imperial meantime.”

Read the full publication .

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Congratulations to Sociology & Anthropology’s Virginia Caputo for receiving the 2024-2025 FASS Excellence in Teaching Award! Virginia was recognized at this year’s annual FASS vin d’honneur celebration where she received her award.

FASS Excellence in Teaching Awards (ETAs) recognize faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching over a period that includes at least the most recent 3 years. Learn more about the Teaching Excellence Award here.

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Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan has been named the new Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University and the University of Ottawa. She started her 2-year mandate July 1st , 2023.

Working in both French and English, the incumbent of the Joint Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, teaches, engages in research and participates in appropriate committees and events on both campuses. She acts as a resource person on women’s issues and feminist research at both universities. She also establishes and maintains contact with local, regional, national and international feminist educational and community-based organizations.

During her mandate as Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, Dr. Carrier-Moisan will propose various events on the theme of “Multimodal Scholarships and Feminist, Public Knowledges”. These events will be opportunities to learn and reflect together on creative and multimodal approaches to feminist research and ways of doing and telling research otherwise, drawing inspiration from emerging practices that tend to decenter dominant modes of scientific knowledges and to expand the possibilities of accessible, feminist, anti-racist, decolonial knowledges. She invites members of the student and faculty community, as well as feminist activists, artists, and scholars to join her in the various events and activities she will be organizing at the University of Ottawa and �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

Dr. Carrier-Moisan will also be teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, (including in English) at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, “Storying otherwise: feminist scholarships through (ethno)graphic narratives” and in French, at the University of Ottawa, “Raconter la recherche autrement: approches créatives et multimodales des savoirs féministes”.

A reminder that there will be a breakfast reception to bid farewell to the esteemed outgoing Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, Nadia Abu-Zahra, and to extend a warm welcome to the incoming Chair, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan. This event will be an opportunity to celebrate their contributions and achievements in the field of Women’s Studies and to usher in a new chapter in our departments. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP by September 20^th by clicking

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Congratulations to Anthropology Professor Vivian Solana Moreno on being awarded a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Insight Development Grant for her research project: “Intimate Transnational Aid: Regenerating Political Movements through Spanish-Sahrawi Relations”. Congratulations Vivian!

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Professor Jean-Michel Landry published an article through American Ethnologist

The article, titled “Community Fashioning: Political ethics and Shi’i clerical training in Lebanon” is available to be read here.

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Professor Beatriz Juárez-Rodríguez has recently published a new article titled “Black women’s geographies of resistance and the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of Imbabura and Carchi” in the Taylor and Francis Online Journal. This article can be read .

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Professor Carolyn Ramzy has been featured in the American Religious Sounds Project Gallery, with her online exhibit entitled “Coptic Women Sing Too”. Please see part of the introduction below and the entire exhibit .

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